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A Wikipedia article is defined as a page that has encyclopedic or almanac-like information on it ("almanac-like" being; lists, timelines, tables or charts).
See Special:Allpages for a list of all Wikipedia articles and Wikipedia:Statistics for statistics on Wikipedia and its growth.
An "article" does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:
In the Monobook (default) skin, the type of page is shown in the currently selected tab and non-article pages have a light blue background. In the Classic skin, pages from these namespaces are displayed on a yellow background to distinguish them from pages in the article namespace.
But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles; most notably:
- the Main Page;
- thousands of "stub" pages that may not be considered real articles yet;
- thousands of disambiguation pages which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
- thousands of "redirect" pages which are used to re-route one page to another page;
The automatic definition used by the software at Special:Statistics is: any page that is in the article namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. The statistics software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however; nor does it disregard Stubs and Stublists (lists templates with little or no content).
See Wikipedia:Naming conventions to learn how we title articles and Wikipedia:protected pages for a list of pages that have been made read-only to non-Wikipedia Administrators.
See also
bg:Уикипедия:Статия
nl:Wikipedia:Artikel
cy:Wicipedia:Beth ydy erthygl
da:Wikipedia:Hvad er en artikel
de:Wikipedia:Was ist ein Artikel
el:Wikipedia:Τι είναι ένα άρθρο
eo:Vikipedio:Kio estas artikolo
it:Wikipedia:Articolo
vi:Wikipedia:Bi bch khoa l ci gi?
ja:Wikipedia:記事とは何か
zh-cn:Wikipedia:什么是条目
zh-tw:Wikipedia:什麽是條目
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