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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.

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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.

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Nicholson Baker (2008-04-09). "How I fell in love with Wikipedia [1]". The Guardian.
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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.

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Section sizes

Section size for Wikipedia (64 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	11,504	11,504
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	6,961
Administrators	2,595	2,595
Dispute resolution	1,026	2,972
Arbitration Committee	1,946	1,946
Community	8,803	14,856
Studies	3,356	3,356
Diversity	2,697	2,697
Language editions	14,159	16,160
English Wikipedia editor numbers	2,001	2,001
Reception	10,358	62,869
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	4,260	4,260
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	19,043	21,327
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	326,424	326,424

dmy dates

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]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 May 2024

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]

Page Image

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]

Change "currently" with template

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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]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 15 November 2024

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

add " it is also the website you are on!" H five-6 (talk) 03:18, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: We try to avoid self-reference on Wikipedia as much as possible. JJP_{Mas_ter} (she/they) 03:19, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia#Sister_projects_–_Wikimedia and Wikisource

Just a note, but currently does not mention Wikisource. I assume there are sources for its existence? It is true WS is very minor, and maybe non-notable. (Anyway, as a wikisourcerer, I'd be one of the worst people to write that up). Leaving this here as food for thought.

(Actually, is also missing Wikifunctions, and possibly some others). — Alien 3
3 3 17:37, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In what are the roads different? 112.208.70.39 (talk) 12:25, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 19 November 2024

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Sydney ham (talk) 03:02, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. CMD (talk) 03:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]