- ^ A news item involving 2011 Virginia earthquake was featured on Wikipedia's main page in the In the news section on 24 August 2011
- ^ This article has been mentioned by a media organisation:
- David Montgomery (2011-08-24). "Minutes after Virginia earthquake, it was on Wikipedia". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2011-08-25. "The Wikipedians needed just eight minutes to cooly consign the "2011 Virginia earthquake" to history — the elapsed time between the temblor and the first bulletin in the online encyclopedia."