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What Wikipedia article is the longest?

What Wikipedia article is the longest?

This week, Wikipedia recently updated the article pertaining to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign endorsements. With over 648,769 bytes, the page is now the longest ever on Wikipedia. The article features hundreds of campaign endorsements from both political figures and familiar faces within entertainment.

Which article is considered the longest article?

Article I is the longest article in the Constitution; it establishes the national legislature called Congress.

How long should a Wikipedia page be?

The appropriate length of the lead depends on that of the article, but should normally be no more than four paragraphs….The rest of the lead section.

Article Length Lead Length
Fewer than 15,000 characters One or two paragraphs
15,000–30,000 characters Two or three paragraphs

Which is the longest Wikipedia article in the world?

As of July 2019, Wikipedia shows that the longest article is Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (at 470,019 bytes), followed by Timeline of 1960s counterculture. The longest article that isn’t a list or timeline is Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen (at 443,091 bytes).

Why are Wikipedia articles supposed to be so long?

Articles which are especially long are supposed to be broken down, using Wikipedia’s summary style, into smaller, more readable and manageable articles. Unlike in print encyclopedias, length isn’t correlated with priority—long articles are usually ones that have not seen enough editorial attention to be split or cut down to size.

Is there such thing as an unusual article on Wikipedia?

Still, all such lists risk being deleted for lack of a neutral definition of what counts as “unusual”. A cow with antlers atop a power line pole. Wikipedia contains other images and articles that are similarly liveshocking or udderly amoosing.

Where can I find list of long pages on Wikipedia?

You can see the full list for the English Wikipedia at Long pages. You can do this for any other language by going into the Wikipedia in that language and typing Special:LongPages in the search box.