Language Log Home About Comments policy Wikipedia article length May 18, 2016 @ 4:47 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and culture <p align=center>&laquo; <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=25807">Too like the gender</a> | <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=25845">Political TV Ad Archive</a> &raquo; </p> « previous post | next post » For various reasons I recently downloaded snapshots of Wikipedia in various languages, and I'd like to share with you some discoveries, starting with article length in the English Wikipedia. As of the May 3 version, which comprises 5,110,263 articles, the longest article (at 50,122 words) is " California Proposition 218 (1996) ". The top ten in terms of length in words are:: 1 California Proposition 218 (1996) 2 List of Warriors characters 3 List of Dutch inventions and discoveries 4 South Afric...