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

Beginnings

• First page and edit: HomePage 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 of a woman: Rosa Parks on 17:32, 21 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 Misplaced Pages'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: ] on 28 January 2001
  • First successful free link: ] 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: Misplaced Pages: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
• Misplaced Pages: UuU on 16 January 2001
  • Oldest page that was created in the Misplaced Pages namespace and not moved from mainspace: Misplaced Pages:User preferences help, first recorded edit 27 January 2002 but probably created the day before
  • Misplaced Pages 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
• 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)
• 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

First Main Page section appearances

Articles

• Longest current articles
  • that is a list or timeline: Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (17 October 2024 – present) (1,059,257 bytes as of 20 December 2024)
  • that is not a list or timeline: Israel–Hamas war (580,184 bytes as of 20 December 2024)
  • that is a biography: Vladimir Putin (489,794 bytes as of 20 December 2024)
  • that is a non-political biography: Novak Djokovic (488,395 bytes as of 20 December 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 21 December 2024)
  • that is a featured list: List of The Unit episodes (4,743 bytes as of 21 December 2024)
  • that is a good article (GA): Ohio State Route 778 (4,041 bytes as of 21 December 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 (3069 lists 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 20 December 2024)
  • that is not a list: Municipal history of Quebec (1,761 references as of 20 December 2024)
  • that is a biography: Vladimir Putin (834 references as of 20 December 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 (19 years, 295 days)
• 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 (12 years, 183 days)

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: 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. 7,352 days by MJL
• 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: Misplaced Pages 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 (175) and Jesus (137)
  • User talk page: Jimbo Wales (258)
    • that's a talk page of a user subpage: Daniel Mietchen/SuggestBot (90)
  • Misplaced Pages talk page: Requests for adminship (268)
  • Misplaced Pages namespace page (for discussions): Misplaced Pages: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: {{Infobox person}} (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 Misplaced Pages 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: Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages 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: Misplaced Pages (13,671 editors)
  • Page edited by the largest number of users outside of the mainspace: Misplaced Pages:Sandbox (12,024 editors)
• Article unedited for the longest time: See Misplaced Pages: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 (6,090,324 edits as of 7 November 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 (21 years, 89 days)
  • 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 (13 years, 176 days)
  • Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace (rather than a redirect or disambiguation page): Salva congruitate from 09:04, 14 October 2013 to 22:32, 12 August 2024 (10 years, 303 days)
    • Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace, discounting bot edits: Benda, Guinea from 21:03, 7 March 2009 to 14:20, 11 October 2024 (15 years, 218 days)
• 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 (18 years, 70 days)

Title length

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: 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)
• Largest full typed number with an article: 4,294,967,295
• Which is a redirect on a non-main namespace: Misplaced Pages: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
• 132 articles with titles of a single Unicode character: 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

Links

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.

Consensus participation

Requests for adminship/bureaucratship

• Largest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): DanCherek on 9 August 2022 (281 !votes)
  • Most recent unopposed RfA: ComplexRational on 21 December 2022 (175 !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 Misplaced Pages: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
• Most successful RfA nominator: Wizardman, with 47 successful nominations

Requests for Comment

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

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 (123 times, 71 in the modern deletion log and 52 in the old one)
• 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: Misplaced Pages: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 (18 years, 115 days).
  • Longest-running VfD with participation: WikidPad, from 12 January 2005 to 26 July 2020 (15 years, 196 days)
• Longest-running AfD: Disposal orbit, from 3 January 2006 to 8 July 2022 (16 years, 186 days)
• Slowest speedy delete: Misplaced Pages: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 (18 years, 220 days)
  • With a never-deleted AfD: Brent's T.V., nominated on 2 January 2006 and closed "speedy delete" on 7 July 2022 (16 years, 186 days)

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: 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

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

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 (Misplaced Pages 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 (Misplaced Pages hoaxer) (December 2005).
  • Most "merge" !votes in an AfD that is not Brian Chase (Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages 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)
  • 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 Misplaced Pages (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 Misplaced Pages'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: Misplaced Pages 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: Bala Bowkan from 18 June 2009 to 27 November 2024 (15 years, 162 days)
  • A featured article: Halley's Comet from 8 March 2010 to 29 June 2024 (14 years, 113 days)
  • A redirect page: Tu-160 from 23 February 2008 to 27 December 2024 (16 years, 308 days)
  • A talk page: Healthcare industry from 27 July 2004 to 19 November 2024 (20 years, 115 days)
  • A user talk page: 211.29.254.122 from 8 October 2006 to 29 December 2021 (15 years, 82 days)
  • A file: File:Paintball attire.jpg from 5 December 2006 to 20 April 2023 (16 years, 136 days)
  • A project page: Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/New England Patriots seasons/archive1 from 10 October 2007 to 15 May 2023 (15 years, 217 days)
• Longest undetected copyright violation: Clarice Shaw from 20 October 2006 to 28 October 2023 (17 years, 8 days)
• Longest undetected hoax article: Donovan Slacks from 2 November 2004 to 16 February 2024 (19 years, 106 days)
• Longest undetected patent nonsense page: Misplaced Pages talk:Misplaced Pages Signpost/Archives/2013-04-15 from 27 September 2016 to 4 December 2022 (6 years, 68 days)
  • Longest undetected patent nonsense page outside of projectspace: Talk:Sombrero Galaxy/ ("the sobrereo galaxy fat ") from 22 January 2018 to 21 October 2023 (5 years, 272 days)
• 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 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 and templates

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: Europe (291 languages)
  • but not in English: Industry (manufacturing) (135 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)

Milestones

Articles

Users

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

See also

• History of Misplaced Pages
• Misplaced Pages:ADMINSTATS
• Misplaced Pages:Statistics
• Misplaced Pages:Article traffic jumps

Notes

1. ^ This capitalization is correct, as in the early days the last letter of one-word article titles was always capitalized.
2. Confirmed by Misplaced Pages's 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 Misplaced Pages, but is the first one with a username.
3. The 21:16, 16 January 2001 revision was the first time the edit summary was used on Misplaced Pages.
4. Users with ID number 0 are reserved for IP addresses.
5. 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.
6. William Alston died on 13 September 2009.
7. See also this page about a relevant milestone of 20% of biographical articles being about women
8. Jack Lemmon was created on 16 June 2001 and updated the day after his death.
9. Dale Earnhardt was created on 22 February 2001. He had died three days earlier on 18 February. The January–August 2001 logs show that Recent celebrity deaths was created on 14 March 2001, with Earnhardt being one of the first entries.
10. 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.
11. ^ 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.
12. Query 61007
13. Without a full URL
14. Dealing with turtle graphics
15. ^ A revision no longer exists and was not archived by the Misplaced Pages 10K Redux.
16. The earliest surviving accessible PNG postdates to 17 August 2001.
17. 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
18. Meta was launched on 9 November and tested Manske's Phase II script before it was adopted by the English Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages page. The meta file now shadows the Commons file, which dates to 24 March 2005.
19. Featured articles were formerly known as brilliant prose.
20. This redirect was changed to SnowBoarding by CliffordAdams on 00:26, 28 January 2001, covering up some early vandalism.
21. 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.
22. ^ Unconfirmed
23. 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.
24. UseModWiki would sometimes change a CamelCase title retroactively to the standard-capitalization title.
25. Converting the links to Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo to the new format
26. ^ Earlier edits were subsequently imported but did not affect the outcome.
27. Created as a model for an alternative method of organization of AfghanistaN on 21 January, it was blanked three days later and subsequently deleted by UseMod software.
28. The subpages were disabled in the main namespace with Phase II software.
29. Revisions with ID number 0 are reserved for the current revision of a page.
30. 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
31. "Tags Mobile edit". Indeed, very mobile.
32. Originally titled ChristianityTalk
33. Query 61003
34. Query 61004
35. Originally titled Damian Yerrick/Talk
36. Query 61587, which lists the lowest page IDs in the Misplaced Pages namespace. All other pages with page IDs below that one were originally in the main namespace, because the Misplaced Pages namespace did not exist until the Phase II software. The original title of the "User preferences help" page was Misplaced Pages: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, Misplaced Pages:PHP script new features, which has a recorded edit from 26 January 2002.
37. Originally titled CategorySchemesTalk
38. This does not show up in query 61008 because its page ID is 12917850.
39. ^ Originally in filespace before being moved to Commons
40. ^ Earlier revisions are inaccessible within Misplaced Pages; the currently accessible version dates only to 2 November 2006.
41. ^ Images such as game of life blinker.png were uploaded earlier to the English Misplaced Pages but were added independently to the Wikimedia Commons later.
42. Query 61009
43. Query 61010
44. Query 61011
45. Query 61014
46. Query 61015
47. Query 61016
48. Category:Engines is listed as being created on 4 January 2003, but this is due to a clock reset; see T4219 and User:Graham87/Page history observations § Strange times reported in diffs
49. Query 61017
50. Query 61018
51. Query 61019
52. Query 61020
53. Moved from mainspace in August 2020; the Draft namespace was not created until December 2013.
54. Query 61022
55. Query 61023
56. Query 61024
57. Query 61025
58. Query 61026
59. 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.
60. For the rest of 2001 and most of 2002, the Main Page mainly comprised various categories and topics with the other items appearing as documented below.
61. According to the Wayback Machine, the earliest confirmed entry in the "In the news" section is the United States invasion of Afghanistan on 30 October 2001.
62. The "Recent deaths" section dates only to 2012 in its modern form. In the early days, "In the news" and "Recent deaths" were in the same section with no distinction, although an attempt to separate them was made in 2002. In those same early days, the articles of both sections were simply linked on the Main Page without any blurbs.
63. On 15 January 2011, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Misplaced Pages, the "Today's featured article" blurb was replaced with a featured list, Moons of Saturn, which was also a featured topic and featured sound.
64. This occurred before {{TOC limit|4}} reduced it to 129.
65. The article was changed to a redirect on 18 October 2024
66. Greek mythology was the only other article that had been continuously featured since 2001, until it was demoted in March 2021.
67. The oldest surviving revision of Byzantine Empire dates from 4 October 2001. Due to the loss of many of the oldest revisions on Misplaced Pages, it is unknown what the article looked like when it was promoted. It is also not known when the article was created.
68. Tropical Depression Ten (2005) was merged to 2005 Atlantic hurricane season on 21 January 2020.
69. As of 2022 April 1
70. As of 2022 April 2
71. 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 Misplaced Pages. The date of 25 January 2002 was when Misplaced Pages began using Phase II software
72. Jimbo Wales has 7 letter-based archives.
73. ^ In the absence of special pages
74. The consistent popularity of these articles is believed to be in part because people accidentally type these site names/URLs into a Misplaced Pages search box (either in the MediaWiki interface or a web browser) when intending to actually visit the sites themselves.
75. This record was set in the period after his death.
76. Donald Trump received 6.1 million views the day after he won the 2016 United States presidential election.
77. 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.
78. Figure only includes editors in the past 50,000 revisions. Extrapolating that figure to the 717,123 total edits it has received in its current incarnation gives an estimate of about 170,000 editors.
79. This was before semi-protection was added to Misplaced Pages, so many of those edits were vandalism and associated reversions.
80. Ser Amantio di Nicolao is aided by semi-automated tools, as stated on his userpage.
81. Query 63562
82. This occurred due to a database crash.
83. 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.
84. 255 characters is the technical limit for article titles. The following redirect has been discussed at RfD in November 2024.
85. Incomplete list
86. Nearly all links to Network address translation are from template messages on IP talk pages.
87. Nearly all links to ISBN (identifier) are from citation templates where an ISBN number is given.
88. More accurate searches are possible but expensive and give similar results.
89. ^ Including template invocations
90. ^ Query 54051
91. Excludes the 5 hidden categories this article is a member of.
92. The 68 top articles are international conventions with a category for each participant.
93. As of 13 February 2020
94. Selected from a top-10 list of disambiguation pages in 2014
95. According to the Starling archives.
96. ^ Coincides with MediaWiki 1.4
97. 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.
98. The current article is about a different Daniel Brandt than the individual in the Essjay controversy.
99. Transwikied to Wikibooks as a result of this AfD
100. Includes AfD (Articles for deletion), VfD (Votes for deletion), and DRV (Deletion review) discussions
101. Deleted and later redone
102. 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.
103. Query 57896
104. Query 60970
105. Query 65798
106. Phase II software had no way to upload sounds.
107. From query 65805, largest whatevers on Commons and query 65810, for JPGs
108. Deleted in 2009, archived on archive.org.
109. ^ Query 65798
110. ^ Query 65803
111. The revision was also the first spam. It lasted five hours before being reverted.
112. Per Misplaced Pages: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 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.
113. Misplaced Pages:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected articles
114. Block not in log until 2007; see Special:Diff/794028.
115. Query 61047
116. The template displays 33 other navigation templates but is only used in one article.
117. Originally titled Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union

References

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2. Highest archive number in namespace 1
3. Highest archive number in namespace 1
4. Highest archive number in namespace 5
5. Highest archive number in namespace 4 (with space) and highest archive number in namespace 4 without space
6. Highest archive number in namespace 7
7. Highest archive number in namespace 9
8. Highest archive number in namespace 11
9. Highest archive number in namespace 13
10. Highest archive number in namespace 15
11. Highest archive number in namespace 101
12. Highest archive number in namespace 829
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14. "WikiPediaProcess". Misplaced Pages 10K Redux from Starling archive by Reagle.
15. User:Theleekycauldron/fun/admin family tree#Wizardman

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