Wiki trivia

having my own Wiki has taught me a thing or two about Wikipedia and other Wiki’s in general – so here’s some interesting things I’ve found out about Wikipedia recently.

Pages with the most revisions:

  • George W. Bush ‎(33,566 revisions)
  • Wikipedia ‎(22,491 revisions)
  • United States ‎(17,215 revisions)
  • Jesus ‎(16,010 revisions)
  • 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict ‎(15,432 revisions)
  • Wii ‎(14,774 revisions)
  • Adolf Hitler ‎(14,555 revisions)
  • World War II ‎(14,453 revisions)
  • Deaths in 2006 ‎(13,788 revisions)
  • RuneScape ‎(13,706 revisions)

The English-language Wikipedia currently contains 2,159,739 articles.
This number excludes redirects, discussion pages, image description pages, user profile pages, templates, help pages, portals, articles without links to other articles, and pages for Wikipedia administration. Including these, we have 11,370,560 pages.

Users have made 191,097,861 edits, with an average of 16.81 per page, since July 2002. This includes edits by unregistered users. In addition, we currently have 756,894 media files (excluding files from the Wikimedia Commons).

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Jonathan Blundell

I'm a husband, father of three, blogger, podcaster, author and media geek who is hoping to live a simple life and follow The Way.

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