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The longest Wikipedia article is List of Glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long. The average length of a Wikipedia article is about 658 words. The English Wikipedia has 6,714,921 articles, which contain...
EDIT: Oh Dear! It appears English Wikipedia would not be 6 million pages. It is currently 6,694,000+ articles! And I like old school encyclopedias with short little entries- the average wikipedia article is 1,813 word...
I maintain a personal list of what I consider to be some of the most interesting Wikipedia articles and, having recently reached 500 entries, I figured I'd share it. You can find it here. Fair warning, many of the art...
Since Wikipedia is open source, there are many ways to download the entire database listed here with instructions, including an SQL database, HTML dumps, and anywhere else you can download it, with slimmed down versio...
The are asking and it borders on scam. This article on it is from 2015 but its essentially the same situation. The foundation is flush with cash yet paints the picture that wikipedia might go off line any time now of ...
Don't donate to Wikipedia, the people that do the actual work don't get paid at all, donate to them instead, Wikipedia gets plenty of donations from corporations and such. Wikipedia's own creator says you shouldn't tr...
People who still think Wikipedia is some completely unreliable source of information.
As a reminder, Kiwix is an offline reader: once you download your zim file (Wikipedia, StackOverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet connectivity. There's much talk that one could ...
For context, I am a beginner at editing Wikipedia and having doing so for a year up until now. I have been blocked for a year for reasons that were given by an administrator after I attempted an appeal: