Talk:Awards

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Suggestions for future awards[edit]

¿How about most linked article? JorgeGG 00:33, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC).

Change of page[edit]

I think the old content of this page should be replaced with something on the actual awards we have won, either with just a table like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/thumb/4/40/80px-8thwebbylogowide.png

Wikipedia has won a Webby Award for Community (ds.com/main/webby_awards/winner_list.html more)
and a en:Prix Ars Electronica for Digital Communities (more).

http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/thumb/5/5f/80px-AE-2004-wi de2.jpg

or with more details if people want to expand on it. Angela 20:15, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

see for instance w:en:Wikipedia:Trophy box. Sj 23:39, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
en:Wikipedia:Trophy box should be here, not on the English Wikipedia. Angela 01:22, 19 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
You're right! Everything that applies eqully to all language wikipedias should go here... now should I make it a transwiki redirect on en:, or a stub overviewing the WP: section of the wikimedia-wide trophy box on meta:? Sj 07:50, 22 May 2004 (UTC)d[reply]

Previous page content[edit]

This page is to give awards for various things that occur in Wikimedia projects. The only ones so far are the Award for the longest article title and Best of the worst edit summaries. More could be added.

Award for the longest article title[edit]

I just came across MrsFalafel's Ale, Mustard and Winter Vegetable Pie. I was curious if, at about 50 characters long, it was the longest article title in Wikipedia. Turns out, I made a few that are longer (how embarassing, really):

Well, I'm curious to find out, what is the longest article title? Kingturtle 18:14, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

What about Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (69). Longest place with an article may be Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (but that's just a redirect.) -- Morwen 18:17, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
List of localities in Britain where rare ant species had previously been recorded but are no longer considered to be present (104) is also a redirect. Angela 18:35, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit (188) is a redirect to Bangkok. Jay 19:54, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
There are huge resources of information out there, on the internet, in public libraries and other soruces; a lifetime could make only a small dent on reading all of it. Lots of that information is, of course, not particularly interesting or insightful, but even subtracting that out, you're sitll left with more than a person could ever hope to read. Thus, if you want to gain an understanding of this world through reading, you have to be selective. Paul Klenk 01:11, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Two long East Asian ones:

--Menchi 01:54, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I did a database search, and the longest page title is Acetylseryl.. (a redirect to Acetylseryltyrosylserylisol...serine - and still much shorter than the actual 1185-character 'word' that the page actually is about). Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit comes second.

More interestingly perhaps, the longest non-redirect page titles are:

  1. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (110 characters including spaces)
  2. Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (107)
  3. Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars, in the years 1712, 13, 14, and 15 (104)
  4. Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics (103)
  5. Le Punching-Ball et la Vache à lait : La Critique universitaire nord-américaine face au Surréalisme (99)
  6. Library of Congress Classification:Class Z -- Bibliography. Library Science. Information resources (98)
  7. Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (97)
  8. Astro Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (97)
  9. Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages (96)
  10. Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (95)
  11. Present-day proponents of establishing cooperative relationships between humans and horses (90)
  12. How the law greatly increases the scope and penalties of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (89)
  13. Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PA -- Greek language and literature (88)
  14. Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (88)
  15. Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (87)
  16. List of songs in which the title pretty much sums up the entire point of the whole song (87)
  17. Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PH -- Uralic and Basque languages (86)
  18. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water (86)
  19. The Internal Description of a Causal Set: What the Universe Looks Like from the Inside (86)
  20. God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (85)

Andre Engels 11:44, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I tried to create acetylseryl.. just now, but instead it recreated the Acetylseryl.. already there, in recent changes showing my edit at MN, but in the article history as M, with no earlier edits... Coincidentally, the length of the article it recreated happens to be 28-1=255 characters long. Κσυπ Cyp 12:07, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I personally don't see the point of having articles with such long names. No one will ever get the title right when they're looking for the subject and they really mess up the formatting of pages. Perhaps the length of a title should be limited (better get a flame-retardant suit on :). Dori 17:53, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)

I'd be against a "title limit". And i think the 1st two are UN bills (which would be right title for a search). Not sure about the others though ... JDR

A Dissertation on the American Justice System by People Who Have Never Been Inside a Courtroom, Let Alone Know Anything About the Law, but Have Seen Way Too Many Legal Thrillers (178, I think)

See also longest titles on nl, title length and this unfinished page on article title length on en

Best of the Worst Edit Summaries[edit]

  • On Suncrest, Washington regarding a nonstandard stub message:
    (cur) (last) . . 18:04, 31 Mar 2004 . . CoolDude (LEAVE THIS PAGE ALONE, I AM LOOSING MY PATIENTS! >:()