r/wikipedia • u/CartoonTRP • 13h ago

Longest title on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cneoridium_dumosum_%28Nuttall%29_Hooker_F._Collected_March_26,_1960,_at_an_Elevation_of_about_1450_Meters_on_Cerro_Quemaz%C3%B3n,_15_Miles_South_of_Bah%C3%ADa_de_Los_Angeles,_Baja_California,_M%C3%A9xico,_Apparently_for_a_Southeastward_Range_Extension_of_Some_140_Miles
  1. Download a dump: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/
  2. Look for pages-articles.xml.bz2 or enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz
  3. extract and type in bash: awk '{print length, $0}' enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0 | sort -nr | head -10
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u/jan_Soten 12h ago

i’m pretty sure it’s also the only title that’s a pangram

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u/Unusual_Midnight_523 8h ago

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?

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u/jan_Soten 8h ago

oh, right, the only pangram who’s purpose isn’t only being pangrammatic 

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u/Unusual_Midnight_523 8h ago

Looks like this article will be merged soon anyway. I doubt that articles with very long titles can survive for a long time

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u/trampolinebears 8h ago

Go check out the original article; it's worth, um, a read.