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Wikipedia is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

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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
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
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 15, 2005.
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Wikipedia B‑class Top‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Wikipedia, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of itself. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page. Please remember to avoid self-references and maintain a neutral point of view, even on topics relating to Wikipedia.WikipediaWikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaTemplate:WikiProject WikipediaWikipedia articles
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Nicholson Baker (2008-04-09). "How I fell in love with Wikipedia [1]". The Guardian.
"The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008". The Telegraph (UK). 2009-08-17.
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.

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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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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, 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, 1 April 2006, see discussion.

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Loveland and Reagle placement?

Loveland and Reagle argue that, in process, Wikipedia follows a long tradition of historical encyclopedias that have accumulated improvements piecemeal through "stigmergic accumulation".

This seems out of context in the Milestones section. Does it belong there? (Did someone consider it relevant to WP's early growth?) – AndyFielding (talk) 10:45, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Confused

The video about Wikimania seems to be repeating itself. Can it somehow be trimmed or is it meant to keep repeating itself? Xboxsponge15 (talk) 17:30, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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According to this template, Wikimedia Foundation has 5 current "people." Is that good/clear enough? If you have an opinion, please join Template_talk:Wikimedia_Foundation#Who's_in_and_who's_not. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:19, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Editing page from 28.09.21

Brief description. I added a new subheading to the Wikipedia article, titled "Current Status," which was unfortunately missing before.

If, before that, the article provided information mainly for 2007-19, I provided a more updated one - with references to relevant sources. (For example, the global ranking of the encyclopedia's attendance has changed significantly since January 14, 2017, according to the same Alexa.com source cited in the article. If previously Wikipedia was in 5th place, then by February 2020 Wikipedia ranked eleventh in the world by Internet traffic).

In addition, I propose to consider the "current state" section of Wikipedia as one that needs to be constantly updated (possibly once a year) according to new statistics. --Shaban Roman Petrovich (talk) 17:11, 28 September 2021 (UTC) Brief description. I added a new subheading to the Wikipedia article, titled "Current Status," which was unfortunately missing before.[reply]

If, before that, the article provided information mainly for 2007-19, I provided a more updated one - with references to relevant sources. (For example, the global ranking of the encyclopedia's attendance has changed significantly since January 14, 2017, according to the same Alexa.com source cited in the article. If previously Wikipedia was in 5th place, then by February 2020 Wikipedia ranked eleventh in the world by Internet traffic).

In addition, I propose to consider the "current state" section of Wikipedia as one that needs to be constantly updated (possibly once a year) according to new statistics. --Shaban Roman Petrovich (talk) 17:11, 28 September 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.154.160.20 (talk) [reply]

Intervention by Russia. Over and over again . Russia secret services. Because of editing Wikipedia pages. Not enough pro - Russia? Not enough Russia - dear? FSB - SVR submit an application to his comrade Colonel GU - GRU. Punish!195.244.180.59 (talk) 13:12, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hoi! Boss! buy the whole. Then you alone will be the boss for all of us.195.244.180.59 (talk) 13:14, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-autoconfirmed-protected

As (Arguably) most important article on this site, don´t you think it should be more protected? This has likely been asked before, but shouldn´t this be more protected? Or would that discourage new users from thinking it is a free to edit site? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lallint (talk • contribs) 14:02, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Lallint: Extended confirmed protection is only required when the page in question is controversial and would otherwise have a high level of vandalism. This page most likely does not require it. --The Tips of Apmh (talk) 16:54, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

advertise/ donation

@Dexxor this is important https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&diff=1053543244&oldid=1053531829 bi (talk) 14:36, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]