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As of January 2025, featured articles comprise 6,665 out of a total of 6,941,668 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,040 articles). There are 4,548 featured lists and 8,199 featured pictures too. As of 2022, the median article is a stub. This typically means that it contains a few sentences on the subject.
WikiProject Chicago was started on July 5, 2005, to coordinate work on the article Chicago. Some Wikipedians have adopted this as a project to coordinate work on articles related to the Chicago metropolitan area and the city of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. This broader set of articles is now the project's main focus.
The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 1 March 2025, there are 6,961,541 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.8 billion words (giving a mean of about 694 words per article).
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
From today's featured article USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate launched on 15 August 1799. She was one of the original six frigates of the newly formed United States Navy and, along with her sister ships , was larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period.
Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia.As of March 2025, Wikipedia articles have been created in 355 editions, with 342 currently active and 13 closed.
The University of Milan created an engine of the complete yearly ranking of all Wikipedia articles for 2014–2021. [5] In 2013 the BBC published an article discussing most searched Wikipedia articles in 2012 in different languages. [6] Other versions of top-lists for shorter periods are regularly published and discussed by external popular media.
Many featured articles were previously good articles (which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of criteria). Featured articles comprise 6,700 out of a total of 6,960,521 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,030 articles).