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BrilliantProse was a system started by Larry Sanger in January 2001 to recognize Wikipedia's best content, an ad hoc collection of articles added to the page by various editors. It later evolved into Wikipedia:Featured articles. Refreshing brilliant prose – A review of all brilliant prose articles was held in late 2003
Wikipedia:Milestone articles, which lists article number 200,000, 500,000, 1,000,000, etc. Wikipedia:First 100 pages, the first 100 pages made on Wikipedia; Category:Redirects with old history, which lists all the CamelCase articles before the automated conversion; Wikipedia:New topics, new articles from 2001–02
Thus it appears that all 1000 of the articles listed on December 29, 2006, which formed the basis for this project, have been edited at least once between December 2006 and March 2012. Note 3: There is a new, shorter list of 500 articles at Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles. This is updated frequently and seems the best source for ...
In April 2008, the 10-millionth Wikipedia article was created, and by the end of the year the English Wikipedia exceeded 2.5 million articles. 2009 On 25 June 2009 at 22:15 UTC, following the death of Michael Jackson , the website temporarily crashed.
Article with the most deletion discussions: [da] Gay Nigger Association of America (41 discussions) [db] 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 (18 years, 115 days).
Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide readers to related pages with more information. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers. Anyone with Internet access and in good standing can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
All Wikipedia articles that were started during Wikipedia's first seven years lacked modern references, because technical support for footnote style references, and the rarely used alternate reference styles, weren't introduced until 2006, and modern referencing took a year or two to be completely adopted.