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Wikipedia Announces Their 10 Longest Featured Articles (wikimedia.org)
The Wikimedia blog shared a list of their ten longest "featured" articles, highlighting their collection of more than 4,700 articles which have rigorously reviewed before being awarded a gold star icon certifying them as "the best articles Wikipedia has to offer." The ed17 writes: Elvis Presley leads the list, coming in at 17,659 words. In today's strangest juxtaposition, 'History of Poland (1945 - 89)' features just behind. A pope, Michael Jackson, and the Maya civilization also land spots.
The third-longest featured article covers the Manhattan Project, with a majority of the article covering the development of the first nuclear weapons, as well as a discussion about their post-war impact. Among all of their featured articles, Wikimedia calls it "perhaps one of the more controversial."
The third-longest featured article covers the Manhattan Project, with a majority of the article covering the development of the first nuclear weapons, as well as a discussion about their post-war impact. Among all of their featured articles, Wikimedia calls it "perhaps one of the more controversial."
> and it is black and covered in your shit. I am sure you will suck it off.
[citation needed]
I stumbled across the History of Poland (actually, the early history, to begin with) after investigating the supposed nationality of Captain Nemo. The Jules Verne article (or was it the '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' article?) mentioned that he originally intended that Nemo was Polish nobility, upset that his nation had been wiped off the map and remained so for almost a hundred years. His editor insisted that he change it because it reflected poorly on Russia, who France was trying to maintain a peace treaty (and where he hoped to sell translation of the book). "What remained in the book from the initial concept is a portrait of Tadeusz Kociuszko, a Polish national hero, leader of the uprising against Russia in 1794, with an inscription in Latin: "Finis Poloniae!" ("The end of Poland!")."
I started researching the January Uprising and then earlier uprisings and then back to the founding of Poland.
The whole story is simply amazing. They invented public education (for the middle and upper classes) before anyone else had, and just the idea that the national government operated out of the Hotel Lambert in Paris for many decades. Every few decades the story takes another amazing turn. I was fascinated!!
Glad to know Elvis Presley is more popular then the Poland and the entire Maya civilization.
If I want information on a free software project, Wikipedia is almost always a better source of information than the project's official website. Wikipedia will give an overview of the project, a short history, and list some applications. The project's home page will have the changelog, recent project news, and press releases, none of which is useful to a potential new user. Most software project websites are even worse than university websites.
I'm also pleased to announce that, in addition to there being 10 longest featured articles, there are also 10 shortest featured articles. There are 10 longest non-featured articles and 10 shortest non-featured articles too. There are 10 articles with the most pictures, and I would dare say there are at least 10 articles without any pictures at all! There are 10 articles containing the longest average word length, and 10 articles containing the shortest average word length. And, if you find all that fascinating, there are also 10 articles with the most edits, and 10 articles with the least edits.
Better known as 318230.
" 4,700 articles which have rigorously reviewed before being awarded a gold star icon certifying them as "the best articles Wikipedia has to offer."
this includes english article on 'british empire', a poster child for bias among entrenched editors at wikimedia
attempts to include the factual cited details about british empire's mass murders and genocides, ethnic cleansings(well in to 1970s), regime sanctioned slavery and bonded labor, preventable famines that killed millions(in to 1940s), large scale land and resource grabs, destruction and looting of cultural treasures, regular revolts and protests against regime ( both violent and non violent) in almost every colony, and their brutal suppressions, are censored(except for a unavoidable line or two). people who attempt to include any of that are regularly banned from wikipedia .
ironically some, not all, of the censored material in this article is accepted and available in wikipedia's specialized articles on the subjects like slavery, famines, war crimes, etc. however even parts of sentences with links to specialized articles are censored. contrast this treatment to inclusion of such details in main wikipedia articles about equally horrible actions by similarly brutish regimes like on ussr, communist china, nazi germany, etc. .
even discussion page for british empire article is censored to prevent discussion of sources.
careful examination of history pages, of both the article and discussion page, in date sequence changes will confirm this.
Half the featured articles will have been deleted.
Even as AC!
Well, with the risk of continuing the trend, it's not size what always matters most (I see a commenter there talks likewise about length).
Sometimes articles bring essential facts -- e.g. a graph depicting the various resolutions according to their aspects, or a comparison of office suites so that we can judge them based on some personal need (again, *sigh*, it was size: I needed to find a lighter alternative to Libreoffice).
Also, all these articles seem to be in the English Wikipedia. While arguably having most of the longer topics, it is possible that a non-English article in another language's Wikipedia hold the "record" by being the longest (again, not a virtue by itself).
Perhaps a better metric would be a like button or "was this useful? yes / no" toggle at the margin of the article...
but how would you compare the length of an article in English to that of one in Chinese, for instance?
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Hi, on wikis this button is called 'edit'.
Sites with 'was this useful' buttons are full of shit and cannot be edited by anonymous cowards.
Why does it matter what matters?
They just presented a list with the longest articles, nothing else.
Wikipedia and lists are like America and food.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.