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The question of whether Wikipedia should have an article on itself has been raised many times before, and the answer is definitely yes.
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...the single-sentence paragraphs, the lack of flow within paragraphs, the broken connections between paragraphs, the weak large-scale architecture in the article, the huge number of references for a paltry amount of data, the lack of distinction between important and trivial facts.
Record a new audio file once it reaches FA standard
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Is it worth having an FAQ like other heavy traffic articles? E.g. "Why should Wikipedia have an article on itself?"
The "sub-articles" that were split off from this article are badly in need of attention, as are several other related articles. The following all need work:
History of Wikipedia — this one in particular is missing information and should be reorganized
Can we get the first three of these into a template somehow?
Many other language Wikipedia articles of questionable notability, particularly the smallest ones. A thorough going through is needed, with non-notable articles being AFD material.
Images: update graph in history section
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
Expand : Add information about how well the open model is working. The number of articles protected and its evolution in time. Even better, share of reads (hits) according to page protection status.
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.
This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report10 times. The weeks in which this happened:
I was about to edit what I thought was subjective in the first paragraph, where it brags about its stats as most visited reference work, and I was about to delete it but I wanted to check first to make sure it wasn't subjective. Empirejack182 (talk) 23:20, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The information is true, but the phrasing seems a bit like advertising/promoting the wiki and too long. I think just mentioning that it is a wiki is enough.
Should we add its motto somewhere? I feel like we should but I don't know where. it could fit in the opener or somewhere in articles body. "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" motto as is in quotes. JamesEMonroe (talk) 20:23, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you often agree that that new information about the skin should be included in history, such as these sister projects, like Wiktionary and Wikivoyage adapting the new skin and minor updates in 2024-2025? If you exactly disagree, please explain why. AmazingWikis4386 (talk) 22:52, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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