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Wikipedia is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Article milestones Date Process Result February 5, 2005 Peer review Reviewed March 9, 2005 Peer review Reviewed April 4, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted April 9, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted May 4, 2005 Featured article candidate Promoted April 1, 2006 Articles for deletion Speedily kept August 1, 2006 Featured article review Demoted September 15, 2006 Good article nominee Listed February 25, 2007 Peer review Reviewed August 12, 2008 Peer review Reviewed August 15, 2008 Good article reassessment Kept July 21, 2009 Peer review Reviewed July 26, 2012 Peer review Reviewed November 7, 2012 Featured article candidate Not promoted August 25, 2014 Guild of Copy Editors Copyedited September 5, 2014 Good article reassessment Delisted May 21, 2021 Peer review Reviewed February 4, 2023 Featured article candidate Not promoted March 12, 2023 Peer review Reviewed Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 15, 2005, and January 15, 2026. This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of February 7, 2007. Current status: Former featured article

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination: Deletion discussions: Keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2022, see discussion. Keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2019, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2017, see discussion. Delete (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2016, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2015, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 7 April 2014, see discussion. Tedium (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2014, see discussion. No consensus (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2011, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2010, see discussion. Speedy close (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2010, see discussion. Speedy keep, 6 September 2008, see discussion. Speedy close, 17 May 2007, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2006, see discussion.

Wikipedia Reference DeskWikipedia Reference Desk was merged into this article. The discussion was closed on 27 February 2010 with a consensus to merge. The original page is now a redirect to this article. Its history now serves to provide attribution for the content in this article, and it must not be deleted as long as this article exists.

This  level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to multiple WikiProjects.

Wikipedia Top‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Wikipedia, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of itself. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page. Please remember to avoid self-references and maintain a neutral point of view, even on topics relating to Wikipedia.WikipediaWikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaTemplate:WikiProject WikipediaWikipedia Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. Websites: Computing Top‑importance This article is part of WikiProject Websites, an attempt to create and link together articles about the major websites on the web. To participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page.WebsitesWikipedia:WikiProject WebsitesTemplate:WikiProject WebsitesWebsites Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Computing (assessed as Mid-importance). Internet High‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Internet on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.InternetWikipedia:WikiProject InternetTemplate:WikiProject InternetInternet High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. Internet culture Top‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of internet culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Internet cultureWikipedia:WikiProject Internet cultureTemplate:WikiProject Internet cultureInternet culture Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. WikiProject Internet culture To-do: edit history watch purge Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : View all requested internet culture articles Expand : Pick an article from here or here Photo : Category:Internet culture articles needing images Stubs : All stubs are located here Other : Category:Internet self-classification codes (!?); Try to get YouTube to FA; Tag all articles you find with {{WikiProject Internet culture}} See also Category:Internet culture articles needing attention Brands Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Brands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of brands on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BrandsWikipedia:WikiProject BrandsTemplate:WikiProject BrandsBrands Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Books: Reference works This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook This article is supported by the Reference works task force. Spoken Wikipedia This article is within the scope of WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles that are spoken on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Spoken WikipediaWikipedia:WikiProject Spoken WikipediaTemplate:WikiProject Spoken WikipediaSpoken Wikipedia Guild of Copy Editors This article was copy edited by a member of the Guild of Copy Editors on September 10, 2014.Guild of Copy EditorsWikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsTemplate:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsGuild of Copy Editors

This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: Nicholson Baker (2008-04-09). "How I fell in love with Wikipedia [1]". The Guardian. "The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008". The Telegraph (UK). 2009-08-17. Stephen McNeice (2013-05-14). "See how Wikipedia updates in real-time". Newstalk. David Stabler (2013-05-11). "Wikipedia a passion for Portland's Jason Moore". The Oregonian. Taleen Postian (2022-11-03). "Why So Much Hate on Wikipedia?". The Villanovan. Mark O’Connell (2025-06-29). "I love Wikipedia so much, I hardly even minded when it killed me off". The Irish Times. "Editorial: Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia. We now admit to liking you". Chicago Tribune. 2026-01-16.

To-do list for Wikipedia: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-01-05 Long term goal: return to featured status Article structure has been significantly changed and needs fixing and further improvement. See if anything from Italian page can be used to improve this one. Consider implementing any suggestions made by the most recent peer review, including the automated peer-review suggestions. Implement suggestions made by the 2012 Peer Review. Improve/Add Citations Fix the problems that were found in the 2012 FAC Add demographic information from pew report [1] Stylistic problems, specifically: ...the single-sentence paragraphs, the lack of flow within paragraphs, the broken connections between paragraphs, the weak large-scale architecture in the article, the huge number of references for a paltry amount of data, the lack of distinction between important and trivial facts. Record a new audio file once it reaches FA standard Other: Is it worth having an FAQ like other heavy traffic articles? E.g. "Why should Wikipedia have an article on itself?" The "sub-articles" that were split off from this article are badly in need of attention, as are several other related articles. The following all need work: Reliability of Wikipedia Criticism of Wikipedia Wikipedia in popular culture History of Wikipedia — this one in particular is missing information and should be reorganized Can we get the first three of these into a template somehow? Many other language Wikipedia articles of questionable notability, particularly the smallest ones. A thorough going through is needed, with non-notable articles being AFD material. Images: update graph in history section Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Expand : Add information about how well the open model is working. The number of articles protected and its evolution in time. Even better, share of reads (hits) according to page protection status.

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This article is the 1st Wikipedia article in the English-language Wikipedia. 900-thousandth article – not identified 800-thousandth article – not identified 700-thousandth article – not identified 600-thousandth article – Poona Bayabao 500-thousandth article – Special settlements in the Soviet Union 400-thousandth article – Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle 300-thousandth article – Rene Gagnon 200-thousandth article – Neil Warnock 100-thousandth article – Hastings, New Zealand 1st article – WikiPedia For later article milestones, see {{Million milestones}}.

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This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 10 times. The weeks in which this happened: January 6 to 12, 2013 September 8 to 14, 2013 September 15 to 21, 2013 September 22 to 28, 2013 September 29 to October 5, 2013 October 6 to 12, 2013 January 19 to 25, 2014 February 16 to 22, 2014 February 23 to March 1, 2014 March 9 to 15, 2014 Section sizes Section size for Wikipedia (67 sections) Section name Byte count Prose size (words) Header Total Header Total (Top) 11,364 11,364 268 268 History 45 42,938 0 1,705 Nupedia 3,439 3,439 151 151 Launch and growth 18,478 18,478 825 825 Sister projects 4,362 4,362 113 113 Milestones 14,752 14,752 511 511 Impacts of generative AI on Wikipedia views 1,862 1,862 105 105 Collaborative editing 144 24,501 8 1,017 Restrictions 8,478 8,478 343 343 Review of changes 1,500 1,500 127 127 Vandalism 4,156 4,156 269 269 Disputes and edit warring 10,223 10,223 270 270 Policies and content 2,544 4,841 140 327 Content policies and guidelines 2,297 2,297 187 187 Governance 1,742 8,511 77 607 Administrators 1,532 1,532 118 118 Dispute resolution 3,041 5,237 223 412 Arbitration Committee 2,196 2,196 189 189 Community 7,836 14,750 364 723 Research 4,190 4,190 240 240 Diversity 2,724 2,724 119 119 Language editions 15,155 17,157 571 784 English Wikipedia editor numbers 2,002 2,002 213 213 Reception 12,739 65,175 521 3,207 Accuracy of content 13,246 13,246 679 679 Discouragement in education 4,765 7,406 306 511 Medical information 2,641 2,641 205 205 Coverage of topics and systemic bias 7,353 13,273 250 539 Systemic biases 5,920 5,920 289 289 Explicit content 6,787 6,787 404 404 Privacy 4,203 4,203 252 252 Sexism 6,566 6,566 238 238 Nine Theses 955 955 63 63 Operation 17 36,457 0 1,495 Wikimedia Foundation and affiliate movements 9,218 9,218 436 436 Software operations and support 7,285 7,285 248 248 Automated editing 4,794 4,794 213 213 Hardware operations and support 6,967 6,967 246 246 Internal research and operational development 3,748 3,748 191 191 Internal news publications 1,869 1,869 50 50 The Wikipedia Library 2,559 2,559 111 111 Access to content 127 25,594 0 1,319 Content licensing 6,698 6,698 338 338 Methods of access 8,469 16,493 411 953 Mobile access 8,024 8,024 542 542 Chinese access 2,276 2,276 28 28 Cultural influence 69 45,914 0 2,110 Trusted source to combat fake news 2,006 2,006 72 72 Readership 2,859 7,261 227 329 COVID-19 pandemic 4,402 4,402 102 102 Cultural significance 10,696 21,267 616 1,210 Awards 3,263 3,263 158 158 Satire 7,308 7,308 436 436 Publishing 4,505 4,505 230 230 Research use 10,806 10,806 269 269 Related projects 3,602 3,602 213 213 See also 755 755 0 0 Notes 31 31 0 0 References 17 19,650 0 0 Footnotes 17,921 17,921 0 0 Wikipedia-affiliated and primary sources 1,476 1,476 0 0 Sources 236 236 0 0 Further reading 6,443 16,392 0 0 Academic studies 4,873 4,873 0 0 Books 4,115 4,115 0 0 Book review–related articles 961 961 0 0 External links 1,422 1,422 0 0 Total 339,054 339,054 13,775 13,775

 What is going on with the image features? When you click any company logo with the Trademark (TM) icon, Public Domain, plus with any property license, it has:

1. A low file description;

2. no arrows with the black squares on the middle left and right, (< >);

3. the numbers of total photos missing.

This never happened last year or in any other official update. Is this a technical difficulty, or the current version of Wikipedia? UltraAtom (talk) 21:21, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You might have better luck asking at the Help Desk as this talk page is not really the appropriate place to do so. GSK 21:27, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Should we add a hatnote linking to the protection policy under the restrictions section? ScienceD90 (talk) 00:51, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This page should probably mention that Wikipedia is actively engaging in union-busting activities and retaliatory firings over that. https://wikiworkersunited.org/ and https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 are some sources with more information on that. LongBoye (talk) 06:40, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: Wikipedia is not it's own company, it is the Wikimedia Foundation. And since this is probably a controversial action, please back this up with more reliable sources. "https://wikiworkersunited.org/" is clearly not an independent source and cannot be used. | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 19:43, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This controversy is already mentioned at Wikimedia Foundation#Community tech team disbanding. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 20:02, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is one instance of "ofpornographiy" instead of saying "of pornography". This is found in the coverage of topics and systemic bias section. Please fix this. Halfshower423 (talk) 00:43, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

done. Thanks. That typo (and another) were introduced just a few hours ago by user:OneReaction5890 Meters (talk) 00:50, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Halfshower423 (talk) 01:02, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

oops! | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 11:32, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

why is the Infobox so wide??? 1timeuse75 (talk) 12:18, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

fixed! Skyshiftertalk 12:52, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason this article doesn't have a table of contents? It would be handy (as someone who visits relatively often to find updated stats). DrThneed (talk) 23:39, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please look again, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:40, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]