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There has often been discussion about whether very short articles can attain Featured article (FA) status. Some editors are opposed to short articles at Featured article candidates (FAC). Many bring up fair arguments, such as potential overflow of FACs, lack of reviewers, and loss of quality main page TFAs .
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 [aj] Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001 [ak] [al] File: Tetris-branch.png [am] on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002 [an] [ao]
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The longest and shortest pages in Category:Wikipedia good articles (in bytes, limited to the first 1000 entries); data as of 05:02, 30 June 2014 (UTC). Longest [ edit ]
Browser page size: the total size of the page as loaded by a web browser. The article size impacts usability in multiple ways: Reader issues , such as attention span , readability, organization, information saturation, etc. (when articles are large); and fragmentation and duplication of related information the reader may be seeking over ...
The Wikipedia home page on December 20, 2001 [d] Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and web search engine indexing. Language editions were created beginning in March 2001, with a total of 161 in use by the end of 2004.
For featured articles ordered by prose length (not wikitext), see Wikipedia:Database reports/Featured articles by size. For an up to date list see . Articles in Category:Featured articles sorted by page length (in bytes); data as of Tuesday, April 5th, 2022.
As of March 11, 2012, these are the 1,067 of the 9,592 level 4 Wikipedia:Vital articles less than 9,000 bytes long, excluding {{disambiguation}} pages and articles rated B-Class or above in WikiProject talk page templates. Improving the stubs, start-, and C-class articles in this list could be the most time-effective (like cost-effective but ...