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A place to share interesting Wikipedia articles, and talk about Wikipedia and its sister projects. Not officially affiliated with Wikipedia/Wikimedia. Founded 2008 · 669.8K members

668.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 50.6K upvotes, which works out to 76 per 1,000 members.

76peak upvotes per 1,000 members
668.5Kmembers
50.6Kbest post
3Kmost comments
239posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

91%
Link 91% Image 4% Text 2% Question 2% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Luigi is a masculine Italian given name, the Italian form of the German name Ludwig, corresponding to the French name Louis and its anglicized varian…

↑ 50.6K 💬 611 link 2025

"Old Man Trump" is a song with lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. The song describes the racist housing practic…

↑ 48.4K 💬 677 link 2024

“Mar-a-Lago face” is a beauty trend among conservative American women marked by visible plastic surgery, heavy makeup, fake tans, and full lips. Surg…

↑ 39.3K 💬 2.4K link 2025

On September 2025, the Holocaust Museum LA posted on their Instagram account a post that says "'Never again' can’t only mean never again for Jews (..…

↑ 28.3K 💬 2.1K link 2026

Anything Musk is against, must be good. Giving $100 right now.

↑ 26.5K 💬 1.2K text 2024

22 years ago today, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death in Rafah by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting to save a Palestinian home from demolition.

↑ 22.7K 💬 1.5K link 2025

Wikipedia Editors Add “Gaza Genocide” to “List of Genocides” Article

↑ 18.4K 💬 3K link 2024

The Trump–Raffensperger Phone Call took place on Jan. 2, 2021. Then-U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger to…

↑ 17.7K 💬 510 link 2024

Wikipedia won't rename the Twitter article

↑ 16.3K 💬 794 gallery 2024

"Heil Hitler" is a song by American rapper Kanye West released on May 8, 2025. The track received negative reception, including outrage and condemnat…

↑ 15.4K 💬 1.4K link 2025

Communities its size

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r/wikipedia, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/wikipedia?
r/wikipedia describes itself this way: A place to share interesting Wikipedia articles, and talk about Wikipedia and its sister projects. Not officially affiliated with Wikipedia/Wikimedia. It was founded in 2008 and has 669.8K members.
How many members does r/wikipedia have?
r/wikipedia has about 668.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 239 of its posts; the biggest reached 50.6K upvotes, which is 76 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/wikipedia?
"Luigi is a masculine Italian given name, the Italian form of the German name Ludwig, corresponding to the French name Louis and its angliciz" reached 50.6K upvotes and 611 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/wikipedia.
What subreddits are similar to r/wikipedia?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/madisonwi, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/wikipedia?
Of the posts we hold, 91% are link posts and 4% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/wikipedia?
Across 239 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 14:00 UTC (13.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 19:00 UTC (12.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 01:00 UTC (10.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/wikipedia?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/wikipedia has 11.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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