Wikipedia:Wikipedia records#Deletion

{{See also|Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles|Wikipedia:First 100 pages|User:Emijrp/FirstPages}}

• First page and edit: {{noredirect|HomePage}} on 19:27, 15 January 2001
• First non-stub/list article: AfghanistaN{{efn|name=CamelCase|This capitalization is correct, as in the early days the last letter of one-word article titles was always capitalized.}} on 16 January 2001
• First named user: ScottMoonen{{efn|Confirmed by Wikipedia's [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-logs-2001-08-17.7z January–August 2001 logs]. According to the file diff_log.txt, the first editor was office.bomis.com, followed by eiffel.demon.co.uk, both domain names. ScottMoonen was likely the third user to edit Wikipedia, but is the first one with a username.}} on 16 January 2001{{efn|The 21:16, 16 January 2001 revision was the first time the edit summary was used on Wikipedia.}}
• User with the earliest creation date per Special:ListUsers: WojPob on 29 January 2001
• User with ID number 1:{{efn|Users with ID number 0 are reserved for IP addresses.}}{{efn|UseModWiki had ID numbers of its own, but those appear to have been internally inconsistent and are disregarded by MediaWiki. The lowest ID number found in the Starling logs is 111, which is shared between several domain names that do not appear to have been related.}} Damian Yerrick on 29 September 2001
• First biographical article: ThomasReid on 00:10, 17 January 2001
• First biographical article of a living person: William Alston{{efn|William Alston died on 13 September 2009.}} on 00:13, 17 January 2001
• First biographical article of a woman: Rosa Parks on 17:32, 21 January 2001{{efn|See also this page about a relevant milestone of 20% of biographical articles being about women}}
• First biographical article to be updated after the subject's death: Jack Lemmon on 22:55, 28 June 2001{{efn|Jack Lemmon was created on 16 June 2001 and updated the day after his death.}}{{efn|Dale Earnhardt was created on 22 February 2001. He had died three days earlier on 18 February. The January–August 2001 logs show that {{noredirect|Recent celebrity deaths}} was created on 14 March 2001, with Earnhardt being one of the first entries.}}{{efn|Many victims of the September 11 attacks had articles created on them in the aftermath. Most of them were later deleted and moved to the former Sep11wiki, among the earliest being Tara Creamer on 12 September 2001, the day after her death. However, none of them had articles before the attacks.}}
• First image: [http://web.archive.org/web/20040223053543/http://www.8ung.at/hansjoergbrugger/geige.gif http://www.8ung.at/hansjoergbrugger/geige.gif] on 19:03, 19 January 2001{{efn|name=Image history|Phase I software (UseModWiki) had no way to natively include images, so images had to be linked with their raw URLs from external sources. Phase II software had no upload history, so a new version of a file wiped out the previous revision. The modern Upload Wizard arrived with Phase III software on 20 July 2002.}}
• First file page: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled_Water.ogg, 4 August 2002{{efn|Query 61007}}
• First JPG: http://www.lclark.edu/~nilsen/nilsenfam.jpg at HumanComputerInteraction on [https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/HumanComputerInteraction/980417564.html 10:12:44, 25 January 2001]
• First PNG:{{efn|Without a full URL}} turtle.png{{efn|Dealing with turtle graphics}} at Logo (programming language) on 30 March 2001{{efn|name=Redux|A revision no longer exists and was not archived by the Wikipedia 10K Redux.}}
• First PNG with full URLs: http://www.pobratyn.com/data/wikipedia-banner.png and http://www.pobratyn.com/data/wikipedia-banner2.png at User:WojPob/banners on 12 June 2001{{efn|name=Redux}}{{efn|The earliest surviving accessible PNG postdates to 17 August 2001.}}
• First SVG: :File:Cirles of confusion lens diagram.svg on 13 January 2003
• First used picture to be officially hosted on Wikipedia's servers: [http://web.archive.org/web/20020327203400/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/eca311.jpg http://www.wikipedia.com/images/eca311.jpg] at Golden Gate Bridge on 31 July 2001
• First image uploaded to MediaWiki: [https://web.archive.org/web/20020224193622/http://meta.wikipedia.com/upload/mark_twain.jpg mark_twain.jpg]{{efn|Uploaded to Meta by Magnus Manske on 10:15:24, 10 November 2001, incorporated into this revision of Mark Twain the same day, and available on the Wayback Machine as of February 2002}}{{efn|Meta was launched on 9 November and tested Manske's Phase II script before it was adopted by the English Wikipedia on 25 January 2002. UseModWiki had no way to natively upload images, so at that time one had to upload an image to Meta and copy and paste the resultant URL into the desired Wikipedia page. The meta file now shadows the Commons file, which dates to 24 March 2005.}}
• First featured article (FA):{{efn|Featured articles were formerly known as brilliant prose.}} [https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/TheCanonofScripture/980120775.html TheCanonofScripture], [https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/MathematicalGrouP/980005788.html MathematicalGrouP], and [https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/NewZealand/979843712.html NewZealand] on [https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/BrilliantProse/980121233.html 23:53, 21 January 2001]
• First redirect: SnowBOARDING{{efn|This redirect was changed to SnowBoarding by CliffordAdams on 00:26, 28 January 2001, covering up some early vandalism.}}
• First attempted free link: test on 28 January 2001{{efn|Placed in SandBox by PhillipHankins, it is unclear as to whether the test actually worked at the time, although subsequent discussion appears to imply that it did not; earlier discussion had used double-brackets, but in the context of demonstrating what free links were rather than trying to actually be links. This is the first edit that was an effort to actually produce a free link. About a minute later he would change the content to uppercase "Test" and then lowercase "denmark", making Denmark the first content page to be the attempted target of a free link. UseModWiki would run a script later in 2001 that retroactively converted many CamelCase links into free links without registering it as an edit but the Starling logs are not affected by this.}}
• First successful free link:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed|Unconfirmed}} word on 18 February 2001{{efn|Placed in WhichWikiShouldWeUse by CliffordAdams, in the context of summarizing/recapping earlier discussion on free links. This may or may not have been intentional on his part.}}
• First page not created as CamelCase: Alabama on 19 February 2001{{efn|UseModWiki would sometimes change a CamelCase title retroactively to the standard-capitalization title.}}
• First free link in an article: AfricA{{efn|name=CamelCase}} on 20 February 2001{{efn|Converting the links to [The] Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo to the new format}}
• Oldest surviving edit without intervention:{{efn|name=Imported|Earlier edits were subsequently imported but did not affect the outcome.}} UuU{{efn|name=CamelCase}} on 20:08, 16 January 2001
• First page deletion: AfGhanistan on 24 January 2001{{efn|Created as a model for an alternative method of organization of AfghanistaN{{efn|name=CamelCase}} on 21 January, it was blanked three days later and subsequently deleted by UseMod software.}}
• First subpage: AtlasShrugged/TaggartTranscontinental on 29 January 2001{{efn|The subpages were disabled in the main namespace with Phase II software.}}
• Revision with ID number 1:{{efn|Revisions with ID number 0 are reserved for the current revision of a page.}}{{efn|name=Imported}} Wikipedia:Wikipedians on [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1 14:25, 26 January 2002]
• Last surviving article created in the main namespace by an anonymous user:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana on 5 December 2005{{efn|Found from searching through page ID numbers in the database table from around 19:00, 5 December 2005 per this Signpost story to obtain the revision history for Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana. Compare this discussion.}}
• First edit made from outer space: List of spacewalks 2015–2024{{efn|The article was titled List of spacewalks since 2015 at the time of the edit.}} by Astro Christina on 18:16, 17 November 2019{{efn|"Tags Mobile edit". Indeed, very mobile.}}

These revisions are mostly found through database queries (linked to from their dates).

• Main: HomePage on 19:27, 15 January 2001
• Talk: Christianity/Archive 1{{efn|Originally titled ChristianityTalk}} on 26 January 2001{{efn|Query 61003}}
• User: ScottMoonen on 16 January 2001{{efn|Query 61004}}
• User talk: Damian Yerrick on 1 October 2001{{efn|Originally titled Damian Yerrick/Talk}}
• Wikipedia: UuU on 16 January 2001
• Oldest page that was created in the Wikipedia namespace and not moved from mainspace: {{noredirect|Wikipedia:User preferences help}}, first recorded edit 27 January 2002 but probably created the day before{{efn|Query 61587, which lists the lowest page IDs in the Wikipedia namespace. All other pages with page IDs below that one were originally in the main namespace, because the Wikipedia namespace did not exist until the Phase II software. The original title of the "User preferences help" page was {{noredirect|Wikipedia:Help/User preferences}}. Also, its page history appears to be truncated, per the first edit summary; compare the page with the next-highest page ID, {{noredirect|Wikipedia:PHP script new features}}, which has a recorded edit from 26 January 2002.}}
• Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001{{efn|Originally titled CategorySchemesTalk}}{{efn|This does not show up in query 61008 because its page ID is 12917850.}}
• Special: RecentChanges{{efn|RecentChanges was intended to be a changelog to the wiki updated automatically. It is not related to the modern RecentChanges and its history is archived.}} on 16 January 2001
• Help: Starting a new page on 16 April 2001{{efn|Query 61014}}
• Help talk: Starting a new page on 26 July 2001{{efn|Query 61015}}
• Portal: Current events/October 2003 on 15 November 2001{{efn|Query 61018}}, followed by Current events/April 2002 on 29 November 2001
• Portal talk: Current events/Background articles for ongoing events on 28 October 2002{{efn|Query 61019}}
• File: Tetris-branch.png{{efn|name=Commons|Originally in filespace before being moved to Commons}} on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002{{efn|name=Earlier revisions|Earlier revisions are inaccessible within Wikipedia; the currently accessible version dates only to 2 November 2006.}}{{efn|name=Earlier images|Images such as game of life blinker.png were uploaded earlier to the English Wikipedia but were added independently to the Wikimedia Commons later.}}
• File talk: WikiEditsAug2002.JPG on 12 August 2002{{efn|Query 61009}}
• Template: {{tl|Periodic table}} on 02:27, 30 September 2002
• Template talk: Chembox on 28 March 2003
• MediaWiki: Recentchangestext on 13 February 2003{{efn|Query 61010}}
• MediaWiki talk: Recentchangestext on 15 February 2003{{efn|Query 61011}}
• Category: Futurama on 30 May 2004{{efn|Query 61016}}{{efn|:Category:Engines is listed as being created on 4 January 2003, but this is due to a clock reset; see T4219 and {{section link|User:Graham87/Page history observations|Strange times reported in diffs}}}}
• Category talk: World War II on 30 May 2004{{efn|Query 61017}}
• Module talk: Infobox military conflict on 18 February 2005
• Module talk: Convert on 19 February 2013{{efn|Query 61026}}
• MOS: MOS:DP on 26 November 2005 (this was considered in the main namespace until 12 September 2024)
• MOS talk: MOS talk:IDENTITY on 13 October 2008 (this was considered in the talk namespace until 12 September 2024)
• Module: Location map/data/United Kingdom Edinburgh/doc on 22 June 2006
• Oldest page that was created in the Module namespace: Citation on 25 August 2012{{efn|Query 61025}}
• TimedText: They Are Night Zombies!! - Sufjan Stevens - clip.ogg.en.srt on 1 November 2012{{efn|Query 61023}}
• TimedText talk: They Are Night Zombies!! - Sufjan Stevens - clip.ogg.en.srt on 1 November 2012{{efn|Query 61024}}
• Draft: List of sex symbols on 17 October 2001{{efn|Query 61020}}{{efn|Moved from mainspace in August 2020; the Draft namespace was not created until December 2013.}}
• Oldest page that was created in the Draft namespace: Example on 17 December 2013
• Draft talk: List of sex symbols/Archive 1 on 16 October 2001{{efn|Query 61022}}
• Draft talk: Example on 17 December 2013
• Event: Event:Sandbox/VWalters-WMF/en-qs-test on 19 February 2025
• Event talk: Event talk:Wikicurious Pi Day SXSW 2025 on 1 March 2025

{{Main|Wikipedia:History of the Main Page}}

File:Zion Narrows.jpg, a 16-mile long slot canyon in Utah. Featured in a 2010 National Geographic list of the 100 Best American Adventure trips.{{cite web |last1=Siber |first1=Kate |title=Hike the Zion Narrows, Utah |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/best-trips/best-american-adventures/hike-zion-narrows/ |website=National Geographic |date=2 August 2010 |access-date=18 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203062020/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/hike-zion-narrows |archive-date=3 December 2022 |url-access=subscription}}]]

• Longest current articles
• that is a list or timeline: List of chiropterans (739,824 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• that is not a list or timeline: Tartan (554,875 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• that is a biography: Novak Djokovic (496,823 bytes as of 15 April 2025)

• that is a political biography: Joe Biden (485,534 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• that is a featured article:{{efn|Query 92795}} Lady Gaga (375,090 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• that is a featured list:{{efn|Query 92796}} List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (559,990 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• that is a good article (GA):{{efn|Query 92794}} Philippines (479,476 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• Shortest current articles:
• that is a featured article:{{efn|Query 92797}} Miss Meyers (9,417 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• that is a featured list:{{efn|Query 92798}} List of The Unit episodes (4,745 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• that is a good article (GA):{{efn|Query 92799}} Ohio State Route 778 (4,041 bytes as of 15 April 2025)
• Longest article at creation date: List of subnational entities by Human Development Index by WikiMacaroons on 23:08, 15 March 2025 (+2,075,398 bytes)
• List divided into the most list articles: United States National Register of Historic Places listings ({{search link|prefix:"National Register of Historic Places listings in"|3,062 lists}} as of 15 April 2025)
• Articles with the most references
• Municipal history of Quebec (1,660 references as of 4 May 2025)
• that is a list or list-like article: Statewide opinion polling for the 2008 United States presidential election (1,622 references as of 4 May 2025)
• that is a biography: Joe Biden (840 references as of 4 May 2025)
• Most-used reference in an article: List of marine bony fishes of South Africa (1,378 pointers to one reference on 25 February 2024)
• Most unique footnotes in one article:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} 24-cell (180 footnotes on 18 March 2024){{efn|1="Footnotes" here refers to entries in the Notes section, not to references.}}{{efn|The number is down to 175 as of 25 January 2025.}}
• Most hatnotes for one article: fill in if found
• Most hatnotes placed on the top of an article: Enclosed Alphanumerics (eight separate hatnotes)
• Longest article revision ever: List of subnational entities by Human Development Index on 01:09, 18 March 2025 (2,081,376 bytes)
• Longest table of contents: Winning streak (602 headings on 00:59, 28 October 2018){{efn|This occurred before {{tlx|TOC limit|4}} reduced it to 129.}}
• Longest time an article had no sources of any kind: Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night from 22 August 2001 to 13 June 2021 ({{ayd|2001|8|22|2021|6|13}}){{efn|The article was changed to a redirect on 18 October 2024.}}
• Longest time an article had no inline or explicitly cited sources: Same as above
• Longest continuously featured article: Byzantine Empire (26 May 2001 – 18 April 2025; {{ayd|2001|05|26|2025|04|18}}){{efn|Greek mythology was the only other article that had been continuously featured since 2001, until it was demoted in March 2021.}}{{efn|The oldest surviving revision of Byzantine Empire dates from 4 October 2001. Due to the loss of many of the oldest revisions on Wikipedia, it is unknown what the article looked like when it was promoted. It is also not known when the article was created.}}
• Shortest FA ever: Tropical Depression Ten (2005) on 08:22, 4 September 2014 (8,475 bytes){{efn|1=Excluding edits that were immediately reverted, or only stood for a few minutes.}}{{efn|Tropical Depression Ten (2005) was merged to 2005 Atlantic hurricane season on 21 January 2020.}}
• Most successful FA nominations by a Wikipedian: Wehwalt (237 nominations as of 14 April 2025){{efn|Of those, 236 are still Featured Articles as of 15 April 2025. One former FA, Borat, has been demoted on 19 November 2022.}}
• Most successful DYK nominations by a Wikipedian: PFHLai (1,002 nominations as of 12 April 2025)
• Most successful DYK creations and expansions by a Wikipedian: Gerda Arendt (1,968 creations/expansions as of 12 April 2025)
• Shortest time between article creation and appearance on the Main Page in DYK:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Benjamin Loxley, created at 14:15, 24 July 2015 (UTC) by Doug Coldwell and added to the Main Page at 01:20, 26 July 2015 (UTC). (36 hours and 5 minutes)
• Longest time between FA promotion and appearance on Main Page as TFA: Crawford expedition from 23 November 2006 to 25 May 2019 ({{ayd|2006|11|23|2019|5|25}})

• Longest time between the creation of an article and that of its talk page:
• For a non-redirect: Celestial globe, created by an unknown user between 20 December 2001 and 25 January 2002,{{efn|The creation is attributed to Conversion script, but this masks an earlier revision that was not imported in the Usemod article histories import; there is no relevant history at the Nostalgia Wikipedia. The date of 25 January 2002 was when Wikipedia began using Phase II software}} talk page created on 6 July 2020. However, this was a redirect between [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celestial_globe&diff=751559802&oldid=19142175 July 2005, when WikiProject tags on talk pages were uncommon, and November 2016].
• For an article that has never been a redirect: Theatre Owners Booking Association, created on 10 May 2005, talk page created on 24 December 2020
• For a redirect: {{-r|PopularMusic}}, created as an article on 16 January 2001, talk page created on 6 July 2020
• Longest time between any two edits on a talk page:
• Talk:Emmer wheat, for the redirect Emmer wheat which had not been tagged as merged to Emmer. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Emmer_wheat&diff=1101996182&oldid=15951685 7,352 days] by {{u|MJL}}
• Longest time between the creation of a blank talk page and its next edit:
• Talk:MySQLPHP, for the redirect MySQLPHP, which was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:MySQLPHP&diff=1056733046&oldid=16577098 blank] for 6,241 days between 21 October 2004 and 22 November 2021 (now points to the article's redirect target, at Talk:LAMP (software bundle)).
• Largest talk page, including archives, for any namespace: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (151.96 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
• For an article: Donald Trump (26.71 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
• For a user: Jimbo Wales (72.61 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
• For a MediaWiki page: Spam-blacklist (10.52 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
• For a template: Convert (6.92 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
• For a help page: Citation Style 1 (16.01 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
• Most non-date-based archives of a:
• Mainspace talk page: Main Page (208)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+208%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns1=1 Highest archive number in namespace 1]
• Mainspace talk page that is not the Main Page: Donald Trump (187) and Jesus (137) [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+172%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns1=1 Highest archive number in namespace 1]
• User talk page: Jimbo Wales (259){{efn|Jimbo Wales has 7 letter-based archives.}}
• that is a talk page of a user subpage{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}}: Daniel Mietchen/SuggestBot (90)
• Wikipedia talk page: Requests for adminship (270)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+268%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns5=1 Highest archive number in namespace 5]
• Wikipedia namespace page (for discussions): Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions (1,247)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+1228%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns4=1 Highest archive number in namespace 4 (with space)] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive1228%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns4=1 highest archive number in namespace 4 without space]
• File talk page: Same-sex marriage in the United States.svg (18)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+18%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns7=1 Highest archive number in namespace 7]
• MediaWiki talk page: Common.js (23)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+23%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns9=1 Highest archive number in namespace 9]
• Template talk page: {{Infobox person}} (39)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+38%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns11=1 Highest archive number in namespace 11]
• Help talk page: Citation Style 1 (97)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+95%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns13=1 Highest archive number in namespace 13]
• Category talk page: Living people (4)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+4%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns15=1 Highest archive number in namespace 15]
• Portal talk page: Current events (13)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+13%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns101=1 Highest archive number in namespace 101]
• Module talk page: WikiProject banner (15)[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Archive+15%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns829=1 Highest archive number in namespace 829]

:These are current as of 28 January 2025. Those who are interested in updating them can use the special searches provided as refnotes to find more: simply change the archive number to one more than the numbers listed here. If you find anything, keep going up until you stop finding more, and then that's the new record. There are no pages with archives in the TimedText talk namespace.

• Longest talk page thread: unknown

The most viewed pages of Wikipedia before 2007 remain unknown, though the multiyear ranking of most viewed pages gives views for top 100 pages since 2007.

{{Main|Wikipedia:Multiyear ranking of most viewed pages#Top-100 list}}

• Most visited page: Main Page, followed by Special:Search and Special:Random
• Most visited article:{{efn|name=Special|In the absence of special pages}} Wiki, followed by Facebook and then YouTube{{efn|The consistent popularity of these articles is believed to be in part because people accidentally type these site names/URLs into a Wikipedia search box (either in the MediaWiki interface or a web browser) when intending to actually visit the sites themselves.}}
• Most visited article that is not about a website: United States, followed by Donald Trump
• Most visited article that is not about a website nor related specifically to the United States: Elizabeth II, followed by India and then World War II

Typically, the most visited page on a single day is the [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=all-time&pages=Main_Page Main Page]. From 21 July to 16 August 2016, the page averaged 58,900,479 views per day, far more views than any other page.

• Most visited article on a single day:{{efn|name=Special}} Chadwick Boseman on 29 August 2020 ([https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2020-08-26&end=2020-09-01&pages=Chadwick_Boseman 9,929,065 views]){{efn|This record was set in the period after his death.}}
• Most visited article on a single day that was not just after the subject's death: Donald Trump on 9 November 2016 ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2016-11-06&end=2016-11-12&pages=Donald_Trump 6,125,896 views]){{efn|Donald Trump received 6.1 million views the day after he won the 2016 United States presidential election.}}

• Most edited pages (as of August 13, 2023‎)
• in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (1,934,634 edits)
• in the Main namespace: List of WWE personnel (57,088 edits)
• Most edited page in the Main namespace that is not a list: United States (48,053 edits)
• in Talk: Main Page (154,367 edits)
• Talk pages that are a talk page of real articles: Donald Trump (75,978 edits)
• in User: Cyde/List of candidates for speedy deletion/Subpage (991,611 edits)
• Userpages that are not redirects: AmandaNP/UAA/Time (468,765 edits)
• Userpages that are not subpages: Orenburg1 (18,175 edits)
• in User talk: Jimbo Wales (163,323 edits)
• which are subpages: ImageRemovalBot/log (20,355 edits)
• in Wikipedia talk: Did you know (126,058 edits)
• in MediaWiki:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Spam-blacklist (6,483 edits)
• in MediaWiki talk: Spam-blacklist (25,720 edits)
• in Template: Cratstats (107,268 edits)
• Templates that are used in the Main namespace: COVID-19 pandemic data (89,426 edits)
• in Template talk: Did you know (396,161 edits)
• in Portal: Current events/Sports/Sidebar (43,591 edits)
• in Help talk: Citation Style 1 (29,902 edits)
• in Draft: Sandbox (56,212 edits)
• in Module: Syrian Civil War detailed map (18,346 edits)
• Most-edited namespace:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Main
• Least-edited namespace: unknown
• Article edited by the largest number of users:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Wikipedia (13,671 editors){{efn|Figure could be higher if the CamelCase version is included as well. Assuming that at least some of those editors misinterpreted the page to make edits better suited towards projectspace (questions, etc.) and therefore excluding it, United States has been edited by 10,561 editors.}}
• Page edited by the largest number of users outside of the mainspace:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Wikipedia:Sandbox (12,024 editors as of 15 July 2019){{efn|Figure only includes editors in the past 50,000 revisions. Extrapolating that figure to the 717,123 total edits it had received by 15 July 2019 gives an estimate of about 170,000 editors.}}
• Article unedited for the longest time: See Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles
• Most edits to one article in a single day: 7 July 2005 London bombings (2,857 edits in 24 hours){{efn|This was before semi-protection was added to Wikipedia, so many of those edits were vandalism and associated reversions.}}
• Most edits by a bot: MalnadachBot ([https://xtools.wmflabs.org/sc/enwiki/MalnadachBot 11,637,095 edits] as of 29 March 2024)
• Most edits by a Wikipedian: Ser Amantio di Nicolao ([https://xtools.wmflabs.org/sc/enwiki/Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao 6,427,808 edits] as of 27 March 2025){{efn|Ser Amantio di Nicolao is aided by semi-automated tools, as stated on his userpage.}}
• Most edits by a single IPv4 address: 84.90.219.128 ([https://xtools.wmflabs.org/sc/enwiki/84.90.219.128 53,065 edits] as of 29 March 2024)
• Most edits by a single IPv6 address: 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ([https://xtools.wmflabs.org/sc/enwiki/2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 15,826 edits] as of 29 March 2024)
• Most edits by an IPv6 subnet: 240D:1A:4B5:2800::/64 (76,605 edits{{efn|Query 63562}} as of 27 June 2022)
• Largest single contributing edit by a Wikipedian: List of subnational entities by Human Development Index by WikiMacaroons on 23:08, 15 March 2025 (+2,075,398 bytes)
• Longest time between site-wide edits:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Approximately 43 hours between [https://web.archive.org/web/20081024110508/http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_plans 16:00, 6 June 2004 and 02:40, 8 June 2004]{{efn|This occurred due to a database crash.}}
• Longest time between site-wide edits not due to software issues or blackouts:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} 68,424 seconds (19 hours and 24 seconds) between an edit to UnitedStates by office.bomis.com on 23:47:31, 15 January 2001 and another edit to UnitedStates by office.bomis.com on 18:47:55, 16 January 2001
• Longest gap between two edits by a user account: 15 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 5 days, by Mafal – [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mafal?offset=20080416&dir=prev&limit=2 from 17 April 2008 to 6 March 2024].
• Followed by: Benc (15 years and 6 months [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Benc?offset=20041223&dir=prev&limit=2 from 23 December 2004 to 10 June 2020]) and Baristarim (14 years and 4 months [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Baristarim from 8 November 2007 to 18 March 2022]).
• Longest known gap between two edits from an IP address:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} 20 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks by 24.107.65.221 – [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.107.65.221?offset=20030420&dir=prev&limit=2 from 20 April 2003 to 4 February 2024].
• {{anchor|Longest time between edits}}Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace: {{noredirect|Antiballistic Missile Treaty}} from 15:51, 25 February 2002 to 18:59, 28 January 2025 ({{ayd|2002|2|25|2025|1|28}})
• Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace, excluding redirects:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Moscow trials of 1938 from 20:25, 10 October 2010 to 15:05, 4 April 2023 ({{ayd|2009|10|10|2023|4|4}}){{efn|Page was changed from a redirect to a disambiguation page on 10 October 2010 and back into a redirect on 6 July 2024; both edits were made while the page was a disambiguation page.}}
• Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace, excluding redirects and disambiguation pages:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Salva congruitate from 09:04, 14 October 2013 to 22:32, 12 August 2024 ({{ayd|2013|10|14|2024|8|12}})
• Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace, discounting bot edits:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Benda, Guinea from 21:03, 7 March 2009 to 14:20, 11 October 2024 ({{ayd|2009|3|7|2024|10|11}})
• {{anchor|Longest time between edits outside main namespace}}Longest time between edits to a page outside the main namespace: User:Vulture from 03:02, 19 November 2004 to 17:10, 28 January 2023 ({{ayd|2004|11|19|2023|1|28}})

{{See also|Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Title length}}

The MediaWiki software limits the length of page titles to 255 bytes, thus some titles that would be longer than the ones in the list below are not included. For instance, the full title of When the Pawn... would be 445 bytes.

• Longest article title: Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles (250 characters)
• Which is a redirect:{{efn|1=255 characters is the technical limit for article titles. The following redirect has been discussed at RfD in November 2024.}} 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456 (255 characters)
• Which is a list: List of campaign organisations supporting Remain in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (112 characters)
• Which is a disambiguation page: D-beta-D-heptose 7-phosphate kinase/D-beta-D-heptose 1-phosphate adenylyltransferase (84 characters)
• Longest article title without spaces: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon (211 characters)
• Which is a redirect: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabomelito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon (210 characters) (note that the number of letters is the same, despite the lower character count)
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Integers&pagefrom=90000%0A90%2C000#mw-pages Largest full typed number with an article]: 4,294,967,295
• Which is a redirect on a non-main namespace: Wikipedia:Oh I say, what are you doing? Come down from there at once! Really, you're making a frightful exhibition of yourself. (128 characters)

• 36 articles with titles of a single ASCII character: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
• 132 articles with titles of a single Unicode character:{{efn|Incomplete list}} À, Á, Ã, Â, Ä, Å, Ą, Æ, Ą́, Ą̃, Ả, È, É, Ê, Ë, Ę, Ę́, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ò, Õ, Ó, Ö, Ø, Ú, Û, Ü, Ā, Ă, Ć, Ĉ, Ċ, Č, Ç, Ď, Ė, Ě, Ģ, Ĝ, Ğ, Ġ, Ꞡ, Ĥ, Ĵ, Ń, Ň, Ñ, ʼn, Ŕ, Ř, Ś, Ŝ, ß, Ť, Ŭ, Ź, Ż, Ɓ, Ƃ, Ƅ, Ƈ, Ɗ, Ƌ, Ə, Ƒ, Ɨ, Ƙ, Ɯ, Ɲ, Ɵ, Ơ, Ƥ, Ƭ, Ʈ, Ư, Ʊ, Ʋ, Ƴ, Ƹ, Ƽ, Ǧ, Ǩ, Ȋ, Ȥ, Ȧ, Ȳ, Ý, Ɪ ,ݙ ,ݭ, Ḍ, Ḑ, Ḥ, Ḫ, Ḱ, Ḷ, Ḿ, Ṛ, Ṣ, Ṭ, Ẋ, Ẓ, Ž, Ẽ, ←, ↑, →, ↓, ∂, ∆, ≡, ≤, ⊿, ✕, ⱺ, 了, 京, 侍, 內, 兩, 圓, 林, 桂, 申, 神, 膾, 蜀, 道, 郡, 部, 鄂, 酒, 阝, 餅, 鲁

==Redirects==

{{Further|Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects}}

• Article with the most redirects: Hangul (7,111 redirects as of 29 April 2025)
• Excluding Unicode characters: List of highways numbered 1000–1499 (5,796 redirects as of 29 April 2025)
• Excluding redirects to numerical lists: OMICS Publishing Group (2,875 redirects as of 29 April 2025)

• Set index article (not quite the same as a disambiguation page) with the most entries: List of television episodes titled Pilot (1,641 entries as of 6 February 2021)
• Oldest known disambiguation hatnote: Nirvana (band) and Nirvana (Buddhism). Added to each article by Tim Shell on January 27, 2001.{{efn|According to the Starling archives.{{cite web|title=WikiPediaProcess |url=https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/WikiPediaProcess/980578030.html |website=Wikipedia 10K Redux from Starling archive by Reagle}}}}

{{Further|Wikipedia:Times that 100 Wikipedians supported something|Wikipedia:Times that 200 Wikipedians supported something|Wikipedia:Times that 300 or more Wikipedians supported something|Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something}}

{{see also|WP:RFX200}}

• Largest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): DanCherek on 9 August 2022 (281 supports){{efn|Previously held by:
• Ealdgyth on 10 January 2017 (250 supports)
• SarahStierch on 28 July 2012 (217 supports)
• Dabomb87 on 23 August 2010 (188 supports)
• BD2412 on 8 December 2005 (183 supports)}}
• Most recent unopposed RfA: Sennecaster on 25 December 2024 (230 !votes)
• Largest unanimous (no opposes or neutrals) RfA: Firefly on 11 March 2022 (246 !votes)
• Most recent unanimous RfA: Sennecaster on 25 December 2024 (230 !votes)
• Lowest oppose-support ratio (requiring at least one oppose): theleekycauldron 2 on 17 August 2023 (1:313, or 0.00319)
• Lowest neutral-support ratio (requiring at least one neutral): JPxG on 02 November 2023 (1:248, or 0.00403)
• Most !votes on an RfA: Tamzin in May 2022 (468 !votes)
• Fewest !votes on a successful RfA: Smith03 in July 2003 (1:0:0 = 1), as recorded at Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship/2003
• Most !votes on an RfB: Juliancolton in July 2009 (302 !votes)
• Largest successful RfA: Tamzin in May 2022 (482,907 bytes)
• Smallest successful RfA: Marumari in August 2003 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lee_Daniel_Crocker&diff=prev&oldid=1203882 196 bytes])
• First RfA with its own subpage: TheCustomOfLife in August 2004 (retroactively saved to a subpage on November 25)
• First RfA started on its own subpage: Chmod007, on 16 September 2004
• Most successful RfA nominator: {{u|Wizardman}}, with 47 successful nominationsUser:Theleekycauldron/fun/admin family tree#Wizardman

• Largest RFC: Fox News (news): politics & science on 22 September 2022 (636,935 bytes)

{{further|User:JPxG/Oracle/Largest AfDs|User:JPxG/Oracle/All}}

• Oldest entry in the early deletion log: Alan Millar/Status, by Larry_Sanger on 17:31:23, 28 February 2002
• Oldest entry in the modern deletion log: Vivian Blaine, by Slowking Man on 03:20, 23 December 2004{{efn|name=MediaWiki}}
• Most-deleted article: The weather in London (123 times, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=&limit=100&type=delete&user=&page=The+weather+in+London 71 in the modern deletion log] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=Search&fulltext=Search&prefix=Wikipedia%3AHistorical+archive%2FLogs%2FDeletion+log%2F&search=%22the+weather+in+london%22&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns118=1&ns119=1&ns710=1&ns711=1&ns828=1&ns829=1&searchToken=dmcymczlceqbixmhrf9zwyx4c 52 in the old one]){{efn|Early on it was decided that The weather in London be used as a placeholder red link, but it would later come to be regarded as a valid and encyclopedic topic, if only as a redirect. Nevertheless, its old use persisted amongst some Wikipedians, hence the deletion war, before the title was finally accepted for its current use.}}
• Most deleted (and recreated) article: Daniel Brandt (40 times){{efn|The current article is about a different Daniel Brandt than the individual in the Essjay controversy.}}
• Longest deleted article: Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em (305 KB){{efn|Transwikied to Wikibooks as a result of this AfD}}
• Article with the most deletion discussions:{{efn|Includes AfD (Articles for deletion), VfD (Votes for deletion), and DRV (Deletion review) discussions}} Gay Nigger Association of America (41 discussions){{efn|Deleted and later redone}}
• Longest-running VfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Le Punching-Ball et la Vache à lait : La Critique universitaire nord-américaine face au Surréalisme, from 30 March 2004 to 23 July 2022 ({{ayd|2004|03|30|2022|07|23}}).
• Longest-running VfD with participation: WikidPad, from 12 January 2005 to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%CB%90Cyberbot_I/Current_AfD%27s&oldid=969673052 26 July 2020] ({{ayd|2005|1|12|2020|7|26}})
• Longest-running AfD: Disposal orbit, from 3 January 2006 to 8 July 2022 ({{ayd|2006|1|3|2022|7|8}})
• Slowest speedy delete: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Griphennus, nominated on 3 December 2005, deleted the next day, along with AfD page (which was deleted without being closed) on 4 December; undeleted to fix a redlink and closed "speedy delete" on 10 July 2024 ({{ayd|2005|12|03|2024|7|10}})
• With a never-deleted AfD: Brent's T.V., nominated on 2 January 2006 and closed "speedy delete" on 7 July 2022 ({{ayd|2006|1|2|2022|7|7}})
• Longest-running RfD: Fill in if found
• Most-relisted RfD: Fill in if found
• Longest-running MfD: Fill in if found

• First daily deletion logpage: 25 December 2004 (to which 22 debates were automatically transcluded on 29 December).
• First monthly deletion logpage: July 2004, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Archived_articles_for_deletion_discussions/July_2004&oldid=5060974 created] on 1 August.
• Most AfDs in a single AfD daily logpage: 251, on 19 December 2005 (the second highest number, 238, was on the day before).
• Fewest AfDs in a single AfD daily logpage:{{efn|This is difficult to determine because the Oracle's parsing starts to break down as you go back past 2005 where many log pages are erroneously parsed as being completely empty. Nonetheless, it is possible to search individual logpage contents for the string "{{", and approximate how many AfD transclusions there are. It is also possible to sort the logpages by size.}} 0, on 22 February 2005, the "Stolen Day" in which server issues prevented the logpage from being filled.
• Fewest AfDs in a single AfD daily logpage that wasn't due to server problems: 16, on 17 May 2014.
• Fewest VfDs on an AfD daily logpage: 25, on several days in 2005 (4 January, 6 January, and 4 September). 37 on 25 December 2012
• Fewest VfDs on one day of a VfD monthly logpage: There were seventeen days in 2004 where zero articles were listed on the monthly logpages. It's not clear whether this is because no pages were nominated on those days, or whether the logpage compilation process left them out in error: 5 July, 21 July, 29 July, 12 August, 9 September, 15 September, 19 September, 23 September, 24 September, 7 October, 8 October, 13 October, 30 October, 31 October, 5 November, 23 November, and 29 November.
• Additionally, there were six days in 2004 during which only a single VfD was listed: 16 July, 23 August, 3 October, 12 October, 1 November, and 24 November.

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The following information is drawn from User:JPxG/Oracle/All, and only cover AfD nominations after the August 2005 format switch (prior to which deletions were processed at WP:VfD).

• Busiest month: December 2005 (5,393 AfDs).
• Slowest month: December 2018 (1,240 AfDs).
• Keepiest month: February 2014, 35.3% (1,619 AfDs, of which 517 closed "keep", "speedy keep", or "no consensus").
• Deletiest month: April 2017, 76.9% (2,242 AfDs, of which 1,724 closed "delete", "speedy delete", or "redirect").
• Mergiest month: October 2013, 17.33% (1,402 AfDs, of which 243 closed "merge" or "redirect").
• Least mergy month: July 2006, 4.11% (5,011 AfDs, of which 206 closed "merge" or "redirect").
• Transwikiest month: April 2006, 0.57% (3,847 AfDs, of which 22 closed "transwiki").
• Speediest month: November 2006, 15.08% (3,528 AfDs, of which 532 closed "speedy keep" or "speedy delete").
• Tardiest month: February 2020, 3.41%.
• Most indecisive month: February 2014, 14.60% (1,619 AfDs, of which 236 closed "no consensus" or "withdraw").
• Least indecisive month: December 2020, 4.32%.

• Most articles nominated in a single deletion discussion: Mayoral elections (271 articles)
• Largest AfD page: Mass killings under communist regimes (4th nomination), from December 2021 (510,874 bytes){{efn|Query 57896}}
• Largest AfD talk page (yes, those exist sometimes): Mass killings under communist regimes (4th nomination), again (194,232 bytes){{efn|Query 60970}}
• Most !votes in an AfD discussion: 301, on Esoteric programming languages (March 2006), in a gargantuan 60-page batch nomination
• Most !votes in a non-batched AfD: 293, on Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer) (December 2005). In total, there were 146 !votes for "keep", 46 for "delete", and 124 for "merge". While the discussion was closed as "keep", for two months afterward the page oscillated between being an article and a redirect in an edit war whose distinguished participants included Jimbo Wales. The page has remained a redirect since February 2006.
• Most "keep" !votes in an AfD: 146, on the aforementioned AfD.
• Most "keep" votes in a VfD: 226, on Flying Spaghetti Monster (August 2005). In total there were 238 votes, including 9 "delete"s, 3 "merge"s, and 1 "moo".
• Most "delete" !votes in an AfD: 214, on Esoteric programming languages (March 2006).
• Most "delete" !votes in a non-batched AfD: 113, on Emily J. Hilscher (April 2007). In total there were 218 !votes.
• Most "speedy keep" !votes in an AfD: 17, on Veracity of statements by Donald Trump (3rd nomination) (May 2020). In total there were 32 !votes, including 12 normal "keep"s and three "delete"s.
• Most "speedy delete" !votes in an AfD: 11, tied between:
• Sophie Halliday (January 2006)
• The GDT (May 2006)
• Matt Boyd (amateur wrestler) (August 2006)
• Internet Invasion of May 6th, 2007 (May 2007)
• Most "merge" !votes in an AfD: 124, on Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer) (December 2005).
• Most "merge" !votes in an AfD that is not Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer): 76, on Covfefe (May 2017). In total, there were 209 !votes.
• Most "redirect" !votes in an AfD: 48, on K-Love Fan Awards (June 2021). There were 69 !votes in total.
• Most "transwiki" !votes in an AfD: 15, tied between:
• List of hello world programs (February 2006)
• On the Jews and Their Lies (excerpts) (May 2006)
• In Event of Moon Disaster (October 2007)
• Most "userfy" !votes in an AfD: 9, tied between:
• WebBoulevard (January 2007)
• Wikimob (May 2006)
• Most "draftify" !votes in an AfD: 10, on List of American films of 2023 (November 2020), out of just 13 !votes total.
• Most "move" !votes in an AfD: 21, on Ahmed Mohamed (student) (September 2015), out of 126 total.

• First language Wikipedia created: English on 15 January 2001
• Article in the largest number of languages, including English (apart from the Main Page)
• excluding test wikis: Turkey (330 languages)
• [https://kurow.fandom.com/pl/wiki/U%C5%BCytkownik:Pietras1988/Interwiki_do_Kurowa including test wikis]: Kurów (363 languages)
• Article in the largest number of languages, but not in English: Radio Studio 54 Network (139 languages, previous English version deleted on 14 December 2020)
• Featured article on the most different language Wikipedias: Mars (30 languages)
• Featured article or good article on the most different language Wikipedias: Earth (37 languages)
• Featured article in the largest number of language Wikipedias but not in English: World War II (22 languages)
• Featured list on the most different language Wikipedias: List of Nobel laureates in Physics (16 languages)
• Language with the highest percentage of featured articles: Italian Wikipedia (3.7%)
• Featured topic on the most different language Wikipedias: Fill in if found

• Largest file on Commons is File:Politparade.webm (4 GB){{efn|Query 65798}}
• First sound: :File:SAMPA Q dot bomb wasp English RP.ogg, originally uploaded on 11:49, 20 July 2002{{efn|Phase II software had no way to upload sounds.}}

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• Article with most pictures: Comparison of European road signs (4,012 images)
• Most used picture
• in main namespace articles: Information.svg (4,776,141 times)
• counting only links from main namespace articles: Question book-new.svg (407,468 times)
• Most edited picture: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg (1,198 edits as of 27 February 2025)
• Oldest picture on the English Wikipedia's record: marahuana warning.png on 14:07:29, 25 January 2002{{efn|name=Image history}}{{efn|1=[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&page=File:Marahuana_warning.png Deleted] in 2009, [https://web.archive.org/web/20031201000000*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:marahuana_warning.png archived] on archive.org.}}
• Oldest picture accessible under current MediaWiki records: Tetris-branch.png{{efn|name=Commons}} on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002{{efn|name=Image history}}{{efn|name=Earlier revisions}}{{efn|name=Earlier images}}
• Oldest currently-accessible image revision: Hoaxed photo of the Loch Ness monster.jpg on 10:51, 15 March 2003
• Oldest entry in the modern upload log: Mini Christmas tree.png by Fredrik on 23 December 2004{{efn|name=MediaWiki|Coincides with MediaWiki 1.4}}
• Oldest own work file uploaded: 1934 Chevrolet Master Sedan.jpg, taken in 1950, and uploaded in 2014 by BeenAroundAWhile
• Oldest image on Commons: Wikipedia grey square.png, 10 October 2002
• Largest image file: Vienna-big.tif, 38,970 x 36,186 (1,410,168,420 pixels), 3.94 gigabytes
• Largest JPG file: “Declaration of victory after the Battle of Leipzig on 18 October 1813”.jpg, 64,172 x 45,559 (2,923,612,148 pixels), 1.49 gigabytes{{efn|name=Query 65798|Query 65798}}
• Largest PNG file: Feuerwehr Trogen GAN Hof04582 psms16 RAW PS202108301056_20211120ABCDx16 2,7GP.png, 65,520 x 43,860 (2,861,913,600 pixels), 3.23 gigabytes{{efn|name=Query 65798}}
• Highest-resolution image file: Mandeldrop20210909 Power100 D-00001 ABC123 00001.png, 65,535 x 65,535 (4,294,836,225 pixels), 72.47 megabytes{{efn|name=Query 65803|Query 65803}}
• Highest resolution JPG: Symbole Beyou .jpg, 65,500 x 65,500 (4,290,250,000 pixels), 192.41 megabytes{{efn|name=Query 65803}}
• Smallest image file: Transparent 26Bytes.gif (26 bytes)

• First vandalism:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} MarylanD{{efn|name=CamelCase}}{{efn|The edit is now at "Maryland" in the modern Wikipedia database}} on 24 January 2001{{efn|The revision was also the first spam. It lasted five hours before being reverted.}}
• Longest undetected vandalism on...
• An article: 2006 Thai coup d'état: from 18 December 2006 to 4 March 2025 ({{ayd|2006|12|18|2025|03|04}})
• A featured article: Halley's Comet from 8 March 2010 to 29 June 2024 ({{ayd|2010|03|08|2024|06|29}})
• A redirect page: {{-r|Tu-160}} from 23 February 2008 to 27 December 2024 ({{ayd|2008|02|23|2024|12|27}})
• A talk page: Healthcare industry from 27 July 2004 to 19 November 2024 ({{ayd|2004|07|27|2024|11|19}})
• A user talk page: 211.29.254.122 from 8 October 2006 to 29 December 2021 ({{ayd|2006|10|08|2021|12|29}})
• A file: :File:Paintball attire.jpg from 5 December 2006 to 20 April 2023 ({{ayd|2006|12|5|2023|4|20}})
• A project page: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/New England Patriots seasons/archive1 from 10 October 2007 to 15 May 2023 ({{ayd|2007|10|10|2023|05|15}})
• Longest undetected copyright violation: Federated States of Micronesia Football Association from 3 November 2006 to 13 January 2025 ({{ayd|2006|11|3|2025|1|13}})
• Longest undetected hoax article: Donovan Slacks from 2 November 2004 to 16 February 2024 ({{ayd|2004|11|02|2024|02|16}})
• Longest undetected patent nonsense page: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2013-04-15 from 27 September 2016 to 4 December 2022 ({{ayd|2016|9|27|2022|12|4}})
• Longest undetected patent nonsense page outside of projectspace: Talk:Sombrero Galaxy/ ("the sobrereo galaxy fat ") from 22 January 2018 to 21 October 2023 ({{ayd|2018|01|22|2023|10|21}})
• Earliest known salting: History on keyboard instruments, salted on 5 September 2004{{efn|1=Per Wikipedia:Protection log/Archive 2 (though the protection reason was not always recorded in the protection log). Salted pages were originally blanked or replaced with a transclusion of MediaWiki:Noarticletext. They were first listed systematically in February 2005 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ALists_of_protected_pages&diff=prev&oldid=10036551 this edit] to the list of protected pages. Shortly afterwards, Template:Deletedpage was created on March 27, 2005 (see this TFD from April 2005). Also see the historical list of protected titles, from 2006 onwards, and its modern equivalent at Special:Protectedtitles.}}
• Longest unchanged semi-protection in mainspace: Nigga, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Nigga&type=protect semi-protected] by Wknight94 on 21 February 2007{{efn|Wikipedia:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected articles}}

• Longest known time under a temporary block:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} 199.241.184.0/21 from 04:24, 14 October 2012 to 23:56, 31 July 2024 ({{ayd|2012|10|14|2024|07|31}})

• Longest known overturned indefinite block:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} Fbob88 from 18:41, 12 March 2006 to 12:43, 3 May 2024 ({{ayd|2006|03|12|2024|05|03}})
• Longest known active indefinite block:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} DW (indefinitely blocked on 30 January 2003 with no record of having been unblocked as of 19 April 2025){{efn|Block not in log until 2007; see Special:Diff/794028.}}

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• Category in the largest number of languages: Europe (291 languages)
• but not in English: Industry (manufacturing) (135 languages)

• Largest template by page size: {{tl|Map of heritage railways in Great Britain}} (2,040,080 bytes as of 29 December 2021){{efn|Query 61047}}
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• Template with the most transclusions: {{tl|Pagetype‏‎}} (13,870,818 as of 16 March 2022)
• Template with the most main-namespace transclusions:{{efn|name=Unconfirmed}} {{tl|Navbar}} (8,403,198 as of 10 August 2019)
• Module with the most invocations: Arguments (29,371,486 as of 16 March 2022)

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