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Section sizes

Section size for 2020s (74 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	15,805	15,805
Politics and wars	109	232,365
Major conflicts	103	32,046
International wars	13,706	13,706
Civil wars	18,237	18,237
Revolutions and major protests	65,983	65,983
Terrorist attacks	7,282	7,282
Political trends	182	6,559
Electoral trends	4,693	4,693
Deaths	1,684	1,684
Prominent political events	34	120,321
Coups	12,096	12,096
Africa	2,834	2,834
Americas	45,108	45,108
Asia	23,462	23,462
Europe	32,277	32,277
Oceania	4,510	4,510
World leaders	65	65
Assassinations and attempts	23,287	23,287
Disasters	70	68,990
Non-natural disasters	32	19,005
Aviation	7,243	7,243
General	11,564	11,564
Marine	166	166
Natural disasters	71	49,915
Earthquakes and tsunamis	12,515	12,515
Tropical cyclones	13,755	13,755
Tornadoes	3,444	3,444
Floods, avalanches, and mudslides	4,962	4,962
Volcanic eruptions	2,813	2,813
Droughts, heat waves, and wildfires	8,545	8,545
Pollution	361	361
Other natural events	3,449	3,449
Economics	3,574	4,871
Trade	1,297	1,297
Cybersecurity and hacking	3,860	3,860
Health	12	3,169
Epidemics/Outbreaks	1,127	1,127
Pandemics	2,030	2,030
Science and technology	108	14,708
Spaceflight	5,784	5,784
Artificial intelligence	5,810	5,810
Communications and electronics	305	305
Software and electronic platforms	669	669
Technology	2,032	2,032
Society	46	10,054
Social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic	2,324	2,324
Population	1,620	1,620
Gender	3,228	3,228
Environmentalism	559	559
LGBT rights	2,277	2,277
Global goals and issues	18,508	18,508
Popular culture	9,265	66,359
Fashion	2,376	2,376
Film	3,596	3,596
Television	2,332	8,047
Animated	2,167	2,167
Live-action	3,548	3,548
Music	4,525	4,525
Video games	3,724	3,724
Architecture	7,785	7,785
Sports	3,160	21,481
2020	1,364	1,364
2021	3,735	3,735
2022	4,352	4,352
2023	3,694	3,694
2024	3,007	3,007
2025	2,169	2,169
Food	3,020	3,020
Literature	2,540	2,540
See also	323	561
Timeline	238	238
References	51	51
External links	230	230
Total	462,818	462,818

Electoral trends

I think the electoral trends section needs some work. I'm not sure if their characterization of the early 2020s is accurate, and it's certainly not well sourced. The section also doesn't really talk about the wave of anti-incumbent sentiment that's been so widely discussed. CatoTheWiseAss (talk) 01:47, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is a good point. (Magnent)”Harold” (talk) 09:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah right? Its bizarre on how 2024 was the biggest election year in history, while there are other years that do so. 205.155.225.249 (talk) 20:11, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Collage

From top left, clockwise: COVID-19 became a global pandemic in 2020 and dominated the early part of the decade, as it was deemed an international public health emergency until 2023; A Ukrainian tank driving in the Donetsk region during the Russo-Ukrainian War; a U.S. plane carries passengers out of Afghanistan during the 2021 fall of Kabul at the end of the War in Afghanistan; Donald Trump becomes the 47th U.S. president in 2025 after winning a nonconsecutive second term in the 2024 United States presidential election; damage following an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City during the Gaza war; the Théâtre D'opéra Spatial, an AI-generated image authored by Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence application. Significant advances in this field happened in the early 2020s, with services such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek being used by billions worldwide.

We're now more than halfway through the 2020s, and several significant events have happened. That being said, several editors have suggested that the article's collage needs improvement. Do you have any suggestions about the collage? GN22 (talk) 00:33, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe include a better image of the Covid-19 pandemic, something like wearing masks, because the images of the viruses may not be familiar with audiences. Also, maybe add ChatGPT in somehow, as it caused a major stir in academia, and other subjects. TurtleFrog (talk) 20:14, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ChatGPT is already included in the collage's caption. Will change photo of viruses to photo related to face masks used during the early COVID-19 pandemic. GN22 (talk) 00:51, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great! :) TurtleFrog (talk) 00:54, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see the problem with an image of the virus itself -- I'm pretty sure readers generally know what they look like. I wouldn't be opposed to an image portraying the social impacts of the pandemic (including masks) in principle -- but I don't think File:3M 1860 N952020.jpg, as a low-quality image of a mask on a table, is it. BappleBusiness^[talk] 20:30, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I seriously don’t think Trump should be on this collage…. PhilIsTr (talk) 15:40, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah…this is a high-level article on the 2020s and should have a global perspective. What should we replace his picture with? GN22 (talk) 19:17, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Media in the 2020s

Hey so I added more information regarding film and video games in the introduction. I looked at the topic and felt like it was important to add since we are over the halfway point through this decade, but there is definitely room for more elaboration, research, and additional information. I am not expecting to keep all that information on the article, but put it on there so we can look more into specific media that has defined this decade. That's also not including music, art, and other forms of public expression. Daisylover2005 (talk) 01:42, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I will always agree with you. 205.155.225.249 (talk) 19:44, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very long

This article is too long to read and navigate comfortably. When the tag was added, its readable prose size was 20,000+ words. Consider splitting content into sub-article or condensing it. The article size impacts usability in multiple ways: Reader issues, such as attention span, readability, organization, information saturation, etc. (when articles are large). Total article size should be kept reasonably low, particularly for readers using slow internet connections or mobile devices or who have slow computer loading. Some large articles exist for topics that require depth and detail, but typically articles of such size are split into two or more smaller articles.

Word count	What to do
this article 20,000+ words	Needs to be divided or trimmed
> 15,000 words	Almost certainly should be divided or trimmed.
> 9,000 words	Probably should be divided or trimmed.

— Isaidnoway (talk) 15:01, 10 May 2025 (UTC)—[reply]

DVD section

Should a decline of physical media be included in the 2020s article? 205.155.225.249 (talk) 18:50, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Climate of No Comments Turkey Earthquake

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