Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, according to Wikipedia, #830 in the Line of succession to the British throne .
Back in July, our own Will Treece pointed to the then-longest Wikipedia article: Licensed and localized editions of Monopoly . However, since then, the Monopoly page has been broken up into a series of shorter pages. I thought I'd check out what the current Top 20 list looks like today -- and it's totally bananas.
While most of the longest articles are themselves long lists (including awesomely dorky ones like List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters ), several are not, most notably #19, Technological and industrial history of Canada , a true encyclopedia article beginning with The Stone Age and ending with The Internet Age. (I should also mention it's slightly longer than #20, "Timeline of United States inventions (1890â1991)." I suspect there's some rivalry between the maintainers of those pages.) What a wonderful world we live in.
Here are the top 20 longest Wikipedia pages as of November 10, 2010. You can bet this will be completely different in another six months:
Also interesting is the talk page on Wikipedia about the Longest Pages list. Particularly interesting is the "15 *REAL* longest pages list, which is severely outdated (2006), but excludes list-based entries, and has a July 2010 update with some interesting pages.
(Image of HM Queen Beatrix by Paul Blank, used under Creative Commons license. More on the image here .)
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