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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 A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 15, 2005. This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of February 7, 2007. Current status: Former featured article

Wikipedia Reference Desk was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 February 2010 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Wikipedia. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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.

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 articles 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 articles 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 articles 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 articles 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 articles 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 articles 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 articles 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 articles

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.

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.

Text has been copied to or from this article; see the list below. The source pages now serve to provide attribution for the content in the destination pages and must not be deleted as long as the copies exist. For attribution and to access older versions of the copied text, please see the history links below. Copied Criticism of Wikipedia (oldid, history) → Wikipedia (diff) Copied Criticism of Wikipedia (oldid, history) → Wikipedia (diff) Copied Criticism of Wikipedia (oldid, history) → Wikipedia (diff) Copied Criticism of Wikipedia (oldid, history) → Wikipedia (diff) Copied Criticism of Wikipedia (oldid, history) → Wikipedia (diff) Copied Criticism of Wikipedia (oldid, history) → Wikipedia (diff) Copied Wikipedia (oldid, history) → List of Wikipedia controversies (diff)

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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 (64 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 11,620 11,620 History 45 33,055 Nupedia 3,629 3,629 Launch and growth 13,954 13,954 Milestones 15,427 15,427 Openness 668 20,344 Restrictions 4,651 4,651 Review of changes 1,740 1,740 Vandalism 4,162 4,162 Disputes and edit warring 9,123 9,123 Policies and content 4,544 7,756 Content policies and guidelines 3,212 3,212 Governance 1,394 6,914 Administrators 2,595 2,595 Dispute resolution 1,026 2,925 Arbitration Committee 1,899 1,899 Community 8,803 14,840 Studies 3,356 3,356 Diversity 2,681 2,681 Language editions 14,159 16,160 English Wikipedia editor numbers 2,001 2,001 Reception 10,358 62,825 Accuracy of content 13,976 13,976 Discouragement in education 5,197 7,825 Medical information 2,628 2,628 Coverage of topics and systemic bias 6,653 13,080 Coverage of topics and bias 2,424 2,424 Systemic biases 4,003 4,003 Explicit content 6,902 6,902 Privacy 4,216 4,216 Sexism 6,468 6,468 Operation 16 33,703 Wikimedia Foundation and affiliate movements 9,295 9,295 Software operations and support 7,221 7,221 Automated editing 4,461 4,461 Hardware operations and support 4,742 4,742 Internal research and operational development 3,731 3,731 Internal news publications 1,847 1,847 The Wikipedia Library 2,390 2,390 Access to content 127 25,678 Content licensing 6,738 6,738 Methods of access 8,603 16,547 Mobile access 7,944 7,944 Chinese access 2,266 2,266 Cultural influence 68 50,819 Trusted source to combat fake news 1,496 1,496 Readership 3,404 7,799 COVID-19 pandemic 4,395 4,395 Cultural significance 10,737 21,408 Awards 3,969 3,969 Satire 6,702 6,702 Sister projects – Wikimedia 3,222 3,222 Publishing 4,490 4,490 Research use 12,336 12,336 Related projects 3,477 3,477 See also 678 678 Notes 26 26 References 19,056 21,340 Wikipedia-affiliated and primary sources 2,284 2,284 Further reading 6,242 16,071 Academic studies 4,849 4,849 Books 4,018 4,018 Book review–related articles 962 962 External links 1,140 1,140 Total 326,446 326,446

The redirect WİKİPEDİA has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 13 § WİKİPEDİA until a consensus is reached. Largoplazo (talk) 02:40, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is nice but anyone can edit it and put unreliable stuff on there. So how do you know of what your reading is true. 2600:1005:A009:E1A9:407E:E303:66AA:D7E3 (talk) 01:27, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability and how Talk pages are not forums. Johnjbarton (talk) 01:36, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Considering this is a page about a website that has a rule dedicated to using dmy dates, I figured the article itself should follow this rule. "Founded by Wales and Sanger on 15 January 2001", perhaps?

All regards, TomGreene16 (talk) TomGreene16 (talk) 00:24, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done_@TomGreene16: - FlightTime (open channel) 00:33, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

in the section "Mobile access"

"The Android app for Wikipedia was released on July 23, 2014"

The date is wrong. It was actually released on January 13, 2012, according to both Google Play and the Wikimedia article used in this section as a source. The article is from 2012, and says the app was released 2 weeks before; it would make no sense for the actual release date to be 2014. 2601:246:5C80:65F0:61F:C171:740E:46B (talk) 00:40, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Johnjbarton (talk) 00:53, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The image at the top of the page appears (on my iPhone) horribly out of focus. Weird, because if I click on the image (which is the Wikipedia logo), I am presently with a beautifully crisp variant.

Not sure why this might be happening. Ian Yorston (talk) 08:45, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian Yorston 2402:E000:435:A0D2:0:0:0:1 (talk) 23:48, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It means "get a new phone". - FlightTime (open channel) 23:52, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is requested that an edit be made to the extended-confirmed-protected article at Wikipedia. (edit · history · last · links · protection log) This template must be followed by a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected; the request must be of the form "please change X to Y". The edit may be made by any extended confirmed user. Remember to change the |answered=no parameter to "yes" when the request has been accepted, rejected or on hold awaiting user input. This is so that inactive or completed requests don't needlessly fill up the edit requests category. You may also wish to use the {{EEp}} template in the response. To request that a page be protected or unprotected, make a protection request.

Since the number below is created using {{NUMBEROF|active|Wikipedia}} I suggest changing the word "currently" with one of the {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} templates so that is clear to the reader when this data was originated

There are currently 339 language editions of Wikipedia (also called language versions, or simply Wikipedias)

— (the highlight is mine)

If not, it should have the template of {{When|date=November 2024}} to help the reader question the accuracy of this statement Silva Selva (talk) 15:45, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Note: I don't consider this proposed change as an improvement, nor do I see the need to tag "currently". M.Bitton (talk) 16:50, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]