Wikipedia:Wikipedia records

This page details various records of Wikipedia and is constantly updated as legitimate records are added by various users.

Beginnings

 * First page and edit: on 19:27, 15 January 2001
 * First non-stub/list article: AfghanistaN on 16 January 2001
 * First named user: ScottMoonen on 16 January 2001
 * User with the earliest creation date per Special:ListUsers: WojPob on 29 January 2001
 * User with ID number 1: 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 on 00:13, 17 January 2001
 * First biographical article to be updated after the subject's death: Jack Lemmon on 22:55, 28 June 2001
 * First image: http://www.8ung.at/hansjoergbrugger/geige.gif on 19:03, 19 January 2001
 * First file page: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled_Water.ogg, 4 August 2002
 * First JPG: http://www.lclark.edu/~nilsen/nilsenfam.jpg at HumanComputerInteraction on 10:12:44, 25 January 2001
 * First PNG: turtle.png at Logo (programming language) on 30 March 2001
 * 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
 * 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://www.wikipedia.com/images/eca311.jpg at Golden Gate Bridge on 31 July 2001
 * First image uploaded to MediaWiki: mark_twain.jpg
 * First featured article (FA): TheCanonofScripture, MathematicalGrouP, and NewZealand on 23:53, 21 January 2001
 * First redirect: SnowBOARDING
 * First attempted free link: test on 28 January 2001
 * First successful free link: word on 18 February 2001
 * First page not created as CamelCase: Alabama on 19 February 2001
 * First free link in an article: AfricA on 20 February 2001
 * Oldest surviving edit without intervention: UuU on 20:08, 16 January 2001
 * First page deletion: AfGhanistan on 24 January 2001
 * First subpage: AtlasShrugged/TaggartTranscontinental on 29 January 2001
 * Revision with ID number 1: Wikipedians on 14:25, 26 January 2002
 * Last surviving article created in the main namespace by an anonymous user: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana on 5 December 2005
 * First edit made from outer space: List of spacewalks since 2015 by Astro Christina on 18:16, 17 November 2019

Oldest pages in each namespace
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 on 26 January 2001
 * User: ScottMoonen on 16 January 2001
 * User talk: Damian Yerrick on 1 October 2001
 * Wikipedia: UuU on 16 January 2001
 * Oldest page that was created in the Wikipedia namespace and not moved from mainspace:, first recorded edit 27 January 2002 but probably created the day before
 * Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001
 * File: Tetris-branch.png on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002
 * File talk: WikiEditsAug2002.JPG on 12 August 2002
 * MediaWiki: Recentchangestext on 13 February 2003
 * MediaWiki talk: Recentchangestext on 15 February 2003
 * Template: Periodic table on 02:27, 30 September 2002
 * Template talk: Chembox on 28 March 2003
 * Help: Starting a new page on 16 April 2001
 * Help talk: Starting a new page on 26 July 2001
 * Category: Futurama on 30 May 2004
 * Category talk: World War II on 30 May 2004
 * Portal: Current events/October 2003 on 15 November 2001, followed by Current events/April 2002 on 29 November 2001
 * Portal talk: Current events/Background articles for ongoing events on 28 October 2002
 * Draft: List of sex symbols on 17 October 2001
 * 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
 * Draft talk: Example on 17 December 2013
 * TimedText: They Are Night Zombies!! - Sufjan Stevens - clip.ogg.en.srt on 1 November 2012
 * TimedText talk: They Are Night Zombies!! - Sufjan Stevens - clip.ogg.en.srt on 1 November 2012
 * 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
 * Module talk: Infobox military conflict on 18 February 2005
 * Module talk: Convert on 19 February 2013
 * Special: RecentChanges on 16 January 2001

Articles

 * Longest current articles
 * that is a list or timeline: Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election (792,868 bytes as of 23 June 2024)
 * that is not a list or timeline: Tawag ng Tanghalan season 6 ‎(654,839 bytes as of 23 June 2024)
 * that is a biography: Vladimir Putin (483,127 bytes as of 23 June 2024)
 * that is a non-political biography: Novak Djokovic (479,061 bytes as of 23 June 2024)
 * that is a featured list: List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (438,761 bytes as of 29 March 2024)
 * that is a featured article: Mitt Romney (363,717 bytes as of 29 March 2024)
 * that is a good article (GA): Philippines (465,148 bytes as of 29 March 2024)
 * Shortest current articles:
 * that is a featured article: Miss Meyers (9,417 bytes as of 29 March 2024)
 * that is a featured list: List of The Unit episodes (4,263 bytes as of 29 March 2024)
 * that is a good article (GA): Ýdalir (3,667 bytes as of 29 March 2024)
 * Longest article at creation date: List of named minor planets (numerical) on 02:01, 2 November 2016 (2,024,726 bytes)
 * List divided into the most list articles: United States National Register of Historic Places listings ( as of 29 March 2024)
 * Articles with the most references
 * that is a list: 2023 deaths in the United States (2,090 references as of 29 March 2024)
 * that is not a list: Municipal history of Quebec (1,761 references as of 29 March 2024)
 * that is a biography: Joseph Stalin (956 references as of 29 March 2024)
 * Most-used footnote in an article: List of marine bony fishes of South Africa (1,378 pointers to one reference on 25 February 2024)
 * 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 named minor planets (numerical) on 17:09, 2 December 2016 (2,045,391 bytes)
 * Longest table of contents: Winning streak (602 headings on 00:59, 28 October 2018)
 * Longest time an article had no sources of any kind: Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night from 22 August 2001 to 13 June 2021
 * Longest time an article had no inline or explicitly cited sources: Same as above
 * Longest continuously featured article: Byzantine Empire (promoted on 26 May 2001 with no record of having been demoted as of 29 March 2024)
 * Shortest FA ever: Tropical Depression Ten (2005) on 23:02, 7 December 2019 (8,762 bytes)
 * Most successful FA nominations by a Wikipedian: Wehwalt (213 nominations)
 * Most successful DYK nominations by a Wikipedian: Gerda Arendt (1768 nominations)
 * Shortest time between article creation and appearance on the Main Page in DYK: 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

Talk pages

 * Longest time between the creation of an article and its talk page:
 * For a non-redirect: Celestial globe, created by an unknown user between 20 December 2001 and 25 January 2002, talk page created on 6 July 2020. However, this was a redirect between 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:, 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. 7,352 days by
 * Longest time between the creation of a blank talk page and its next edit:
 * Talk:MySQLPHP, for the redirect MySQLPHP, which was 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 (207)
 * Mainspace talk page that isn't the Main Page: Donald Trump (172) and Jesus (136)
 * User talk page: Jimbo Wales (258)
 * that's a talk page of a user subpage: Daniel Mietchen/SuggestBot (90)
 * Wikipedia talk page: Requests for adminship (268)
 * Wikipedia namespace page (for discussions): Teahouse/Questions (1,228)
 * File talk page: Same-sex marriage in the United States.svg (18)
 * MediaWiki talk page: Common.js (23)
 * Template talk page: (38)
 * Help talk page: Citation Style 1 (95)
 * Category talk page: Living people (4)
 * Portal talk page: Current events (13)
 * Module talk page: WikiProject banner (15)


 * These are current as of 7 July 2024. 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

Views
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.

Cumulative views

 * Most visited page: Main Page, followed by Special:Search and Special:Random
 * Most visited article: Wiki, followed by Facebook and then YouTube
 * 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

Single-day views
Typically, the most visited page on a single day is the 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: Chadwick Boseman on 29 August 2020 (9,929,065 views)
 * Most visited article on a single day that was not just after the subject's death: Donald Trump on 9 November 2016 (6,125,896 views)

Edits

 * Most edited pages (as of August 13, 2023‎)
 * in any namespace: 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 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: 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: Main
 * Least-edited namespace: unknown
 * Article edited by the largest number of users: Wikipedia (13,671 editors)
 * Page edited by the largest number of users outside of the mainspace: Sandbox (12,024 editors)
 * Article unedited for the longest time: See Database reports/Forgotten articles
 * Most edits to one article in a single day: 7 July 2005 London bombings (2,857 edits in 24 hours)
 * Most edits by a bot: MalnadachBot (11,637,095 edits as of 29 March 2024)
 * Most edits by a Wikipedian: Ser Amantio di Nicolao (5,841,438 edits as of 29 March 2024)
 * Most edits by a single IPv4 address: 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 (15,826 edits as of 29 March 2024)
 * Most edits by an IPv6 subnet: 240D:1A:4B5:2800::/64 (76,605 edits as of 27 June 2022)
 * Largest single contributing edit by a Wikipedian: List of named minor planets (numerical) by Rfassbind on 02:01, 2 November 2016 (+2,024,726 bytes)
 * Longest time between site-wide edits: Approximately 43 hours between 16:00, 6 June 2004 and 02:40, 8 June 2004
 * Longest time between site-wide edits not due to software issues or blackouts: 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 – from 17 April 2008 to 6 March 2024.
 * Followed by: Benc (15 years and 6 months from 23 December 2004 to 10 June 2020) and Baristarim (14 years and 4 months from 8 November 2007 to 18 March 2022).
 * Longest known gap between two edits from an IP address: 20 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks by 24.107.65.221 – from 20 April 2003 to 4 February 2024.
 * Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace: Beato Angelico from 15:51 25 February 2002 to 20:27 25 May 2023‎
 * Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace, excluding redirects: Moscow trials of 1938 from 20:25, 10 October 2010 to 15:05, 4 April 2023
 * Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace (rather than a redirect or disambiguation page): Granger-Thye Act of 1950 from 00:00, 14 September 2009 to 21:43, 5 July 2019
 * Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace discounting bot edits: Genai, Iran from 18:30, 16 November 2012 to 15:49, 17 February 2024
 * 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

Articles with the longest titles
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: 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. (251 characters; note the full stop at the end)
 * 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)
 * Largest full typed number with an article: 4,294,967,295
 * Which is a redirect on a non-main namespace: Oh I say, what are you doing? Come down from there at once! Really, you're making a frightful exhibition of yourself. (128 characters)

Articles with the shortest titles

 * 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
 * 130 articles with titles of a single Unicode character: À, Á, Ã, Â, Ä, Å, Ą, Æ, Ą́, Ą̃, Ả, È, É, Ê, Ë, 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

 * Article with the most redirects: Hangul (7,103 redirects)
 * Excluding Unicode characters: List of highways numbered 1000–1499 (5,795 redirects)
 * Excluding redirects to numerical lists: OMICS Publishing Group (2,871 redirects)

Disambiguation pages

 * 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.

Requests for adminship/bureaucratship

 * Latest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): ComplexRational on 21 December 2022 (175 votes)
 * Latest unanimous (no opposes or neutrals) RfA: Pickersgill-Cunliffe on 15 June 2024 (201 votes)
 * Highest support-oppose ratio (requiring at least one oppose): theleekycauldron 2 on 17 August 2023 (313:1, or 0.00319)
 * Highest support-neutral ratio (requiring at least one neutral): JPxG on 02 November 2023 (248:1, 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 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 (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

Requests for Comment

 * Largest RFC: Fox News (news): politics & science (September 22 2022)

Deletion

 * 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
 * Most-deleted article: The weather in London (81 times)
 * Most deleted (and recreated) article: Daniel Brandt (40 times)
 * Longest deleted article: Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em (305 KB)
 * Article with the most deletion discussions: Gay Nigger Association of America (41 discussions)
 * 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.
 * Longest-running VfD with participation: WikidPad, from 12 January 2005 to 26 July 2020
 * Longest-running AfD: Disposal orbit, from 3 January 2006 to 8 July 2022
 * Slowest speedy delete: 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
 * With a never-deleted AfD: Brent's T.V., nominated on 2 January 2006 and closed "speedy delete" on 7 July 2022

Statistics

 * First daily deletion logpage: 25 December 2004 (to which 22 debates were automatically transcluded on 29 December).
 * First monthly deletion logpage: July 2004, 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.

By month
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%.

Individual discussions

 * 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)
 * Largest AfD talk page (yes, those exist sometimes): Mass killings under communist regimes (4th nomination), again (194,232 bytes)
 * 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 keeps, 46 deletes, and 124 merges. While the discussion was closed as "keep", for some time afterwards the page oscillated between being an article and a redirect in an edit war whose distinguished participants included Jimbo Wales. It is currently (as of 2021) a redirect.
 * Most "keep" !votes in an AfD: 146, on the same 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.

Languages

 * 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: Japan (314 languages)
 * 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 (29 languages)
 * Featured article in the largest number of language Wikipedias but not in English: World War II (18 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

Files

 * Largest file on Commons is File:Politparade.webm (4 GB)
 * First sound: File:SAMPA Q dot bomb wasp English RP.ogg, originally uploaded on 11:49, 20 July 2002

Pictures

 * 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: UTC hue4map X world Robinson.png (135 edits as of 18 March 2019)
 * Oldest picture on the English Wikipedia's record: marahuana warning.png on 14:07:29, 25 January 2002
 * Oldest picture accessible under current MediaWiki records: Tetris-branch.png on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Highest-resolution image file: Mandeldrop20210909 Power100 D-00001 ABC123 00001.png, 65,535 x 65,535 (4,294,836,225 pixels), 72.47 megabytes
 * Highest resolution JPG: Symbole Beyou .jpg, 65,500 x 65,500 (4,290,250,000 pixels), 192.41 megabytes
 * Smallest image file: Transparent 26Bytes.gif (26 bytes)

Vandalism

 * First vandalism: MarylanD on 24 January 2001
 * Longest undetected vandalism on...
 * An article: List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2006 from 4 January 2008 to 2 February 2023
 * A featured article: Halley's Comet from 8 March 2010 to 29 June 2024
 * A redirect page: SWALK from 12 February 2007 to 18 February 2023
 * A talk page: Munich Massacre from 20 April 2003 to 4 April 2023
 * A user talk page: 211.29.254.122 from 8 October 2006 to 29 December 2021
 * A file: File:Paintball attire.jpg from 5 December 2006 to 20 April 2023
 * A project page: Featured list candidates/New England Patriots seasons/archive1 from 10 October 2007 to 15 May 2023
 * Longest undetected copyright violation: Clarice Shaw from 20 October 2006 to 28 October 2023
 * Longest undetected hoax article: Donovan Slacks from 2 November 2004 to 16 February 2024
 * Longest undetected patent nonsense page: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2013-04-15 from 27 September 2016 to 4 December 2022
 * Longest undetected patent nonsense page outside of projectspace: Talk:Sombrero Galaxy/ ("the sobrereo galaxy fat ") from 22 January 2018 to 21 October 2023
 * Earliest known salting: History on keyboard instruments, salted on 5 September 2004
 * Longest unchanged semi-protection in mainspace: Nigga, semi-protected by Wknight94 on 21 February 2007.

Blocks

 * Longest known time under a temporary block: 199.241.184.0/21 (11 years, 7 months, and 19 days as of 2 June 2024)
 * Longest known time under a temporary block without changes to block settings: 213.251.128.0/18 (9 years, 10 months, and 10 days as of 2 June 2024)
 * Longest known overturned indefinite block: Fbob88 from 18:41, 12 March 2006 to 12:43, 3 May 2024 (18 years, 2 months, and 21 days)
 * Longest known active indefinite block: DW (indefinitely blocked on 30 January 2003 with no record of having been unblocked as of 2 June 2024)

Categories

 * Largest category: Content, followed by Articles, followed by Main topic classifications. Counting pages only (excluding subcategories), the largest is Articles with short description; the largest which is not maintenance Living people; which is not intentionally undivided on subcategories Album covers; and which is not files Surnames.
 * Category in the largest number of languages: United States (241 languages)
 * but not in English: 1630 disestablishments (4 languages)

Templates

 * Largest template by page size: Map of heritage railways in Great Britain (2,040,080 bytes as of 29 December 2021)
 * Largest navigation template: Shakespeare's plays (1,837 wikilinks as of 15 June 2020)
 * Template with the most transclusions: Pagetype‏‎ (13,870,818 as of 16 March 2022)
 * Template with the most main-namespace transclusions: Navbar (8,403,198 as of 10 August 2019)
 * Module with the most invocations: Arguments (29,371,486 as of 16 March 2022)

High-use pages

 * Most linked-to categories
 * Most linked-to files
 * Most linked-to pages
 * Most transcluded pages
 * Pages with the most interwikis
 * Pages with the most revisions (article pages)

Database reports

 * Long pages (all pages on the project)
 * Talk pages by size
 * Most-watched pages
 * Most-watched pages by namespace
 * Most-watched users
 * Pages with the most revisions
 * Long stubs