Wikipedia:Million pool

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See also, the archived Signpost article covering the millionth article, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-03-06/Millionth article.
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666,666th
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(None)
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This was a pool to guess when Wikipedia would hit 1,000,000 articles. It was closed on March 18, 2005, and Wikipedia reached 1,000,000 on March 1, 2006 at 23:09 (UTC), with the creation of the article "Jordanhill railway station". Congratulations go to András Mészáros the winner!

See also the following pools:

Wikipedia currently has 2,409,385 articles.

Contents

[edit] March 2005

  • March 16 - an enormous cache of previously overlooked articles will be revealed. silsor 23:12, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] September 2005

[edit] October 2005

[edit] November 2005

If I could still vote, I would have chosen either the 27th or the 28th—just for the record. Bannus 13:53, 23 Oct 2005 (UTC)

[edit] December 2005

[edit] January 2006

[edit] February 2006

[edit] March 2006

[edit] April 2006

[edit] May 2006

[edit] June 2006

[edit] July 2006

[edit] August 2006

[edit] September 2006

[edit] October 2006

[edit] November 2006

[edit] December 2006

[edit] January 2007

[edit] February 2007

[edit] March 2007

David Lindgren

[edit] April 2007

[edit] May 2007

[edit] June 2007

[edit] July 2007

  • 2 July 18:45 UTC (making this date/time just that much more special) Ericl234 12:03, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • 9 July (my 22nd birthday) Chris 00:59, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • 15 JulyGeni 09:58, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • 19 July 07:13 UTC (my random guess) Baltakatei 02:44, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • 22 July Wombat 00:36, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] August 2007

[edit] September 2007

[edit] October 2007

[edit] November 2007

[edit] December 2007

[edit] January 2008

[edit] February 2008

[edit] March 2008

[edit] May 2008

[edit] November 2008

[edit] December 2008

  • 25 December 13:48:18 UTC JIP | Talk 10:55, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC) (note: this was previously added by me when I was still anonymous)

[edit] January 2009

[edit] March 2009

[edit] October 2009

  • 8 October -- Silvermane 23:43, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC) - based on the present growth of about 300 articles per day.

[edit] October 2013

  • October 7 at 17:32 UTC - will be a good 25th birthday present for me. (I was born on October 8, 1988 at 06:32 New Zealand Time.) Scott Gall 01:14, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Never

  • — Kate Turner | Talk 18:38, 2004 Nov 21 (UTC)
  • BrokenSegue 21:07, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Invalid, uninterpretable, and just plain silly guesses

[edit] Moments after article 999,999 is created

A complex econometric vector autoregression time series trend modeling code was adapted for use in this problem, and 14 simulations were performed on a 1,024 node cluster over a period of 6 months. This was the average result. -- BRIAN0918  22:45, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Midnight of Never

  • Will there be a miracle? No. 2,409,385 -- Toytoy 01:11, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
  • Since 777,777th article the growth will become so fast that every even number of articles will be skipped.

[edit] After the Final Conflagration

Desolation

Patient centuries have eroded much of the topsoil from the landscape. Loose, charred earth stretches away in every direction.

[edit] Inconceivable!

there simply aren't one million topics in existence. --Alterego 07:29, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

  • Isn't this "Never"? -- BRIAN0918  07:34, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Is this where I say that I don't think it means what you think it means? JIP | Talk 07:45, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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