This was a page to guess when the billionth edit (as measured by the "oldid" field) will be made (i.e. when
this link becomes valid). Also, for those who want to joke around, guess what the edit will be about.
The date pool has been closed as Wikipedia reached 900 million edits on
June 2, 2019 at 19:51 UTC. The total number of edits on Wikipedia is currently (as of July 19, 2024)
around 1233.14 million. Do not rely on {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}, as it is significantly lower (namely by
slightly over 2.5 million) and could easily be over a year apart from the oldid field by the time each of them reach a billion.
When I was about 10 I similarly won about 7 pounds of bologna by guessing its weight. Here are some rules for improving your guessing odds, although I don't see that I used them here: Look for the biggest gap in previously guessed dates, that is in the range that looks plausible. For instance, if previous guesses are 2015, 2022 and 2024, then the odds are that the date will be between 2015 and 2022. The rules here are the closest later guess wins, even if the closest earlier guess is closer, so guess at the end of that gap, not the middle. Avoid round numbers, or in this case the calendar equivalent of round numbers like January 1 - others are likely to guess those.
Art LaPella (
talk)
01:44, 13 January 2021 (UTC)reply
January or December at midnight!.. if the earth has not been destroyed by then i guess the 1,000,000,000 edit is going to be.... a bot edit -.-. --
190.158.215.220 (
talk)
00:41, 1 October 2011 (UTC)reply
December 23, 2019: The Day We Make Contact. Oh wait, that was the year format of 2010: A Space Odyssey combined with the last possible date of the 2012 apocalypse (2 days after the more popular one).
Sagittarian Milky Way (
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17:26, 4 March 2017 (UTC)reply
June 24 There's no way of knowing until we reach 999,000,000 edits when this will happen, but I figured I could put in my completely random and wild guess while there's still time.
Matthieueagan (
User talk:Matthieueagan) 01:36, June 24, 2018 (UTC)
17 December (Bonus if the minute is xx:04) The actual date's completely arbitrary but it's probably safer to assume edits are speeding up rather than slowing down as articles are. A little over 2 1/2 years feels like a good estimate, all things considered. --
Deuteranopia (talk)
18:07, 1 May 2018 (UTC)reply
16 August 2023, at midnight UTC, going by a rough calculation based on a linear estimate of edit counts on the English Wikipedia.
JIP |
Talk19:51, 1 February 2011 (UTC)reply
Yes, this is mostly silly. No non-specific guesses like "vandalism" or "rvv". Guesses can be either, the article edited, the exact content of the summary (but, again, not "rvv"), the content of added or deleted text, the number of bytes added or deleted, who makes the edit or, well, be creative, this is silly anyway. Guess as many times as you like.
It will be an automated edit by a bot that is watching for the 999,999,999th edit so that it can announce that Wikipedia has had a billion edits. Of course, there is also the possibility that it will be some bored kid who changes the name of his country's leader to "butt face" while he is supposed to be researching a school paper. Etamni |
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✓23:22, 5 November 2015 (UTC)reply
An edit to something related to the Object Show Community or a random vandaspamvertising by an anon that happens to be a wikipedian wanting to get the 1Mth edit. Or the wikiholic list. [citiation not needed]SoaPuffball (
talk)
10:38, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A spelling correction by an anonymous user, acknowlege -> acknowledge in a biology-related article. The anonymous user's name's last character will be a "4". Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)[ᴛ]23:39, 20 September 2020 (UTC)reply
This was a page to guess when the billionth edit (as measured by the "oldid" field) will be made (i.e. when
this link becomes valid). Also, for those who want to joke around, guess what the edit will be about.
The date pool has been closed as Wikipedia reached 900 million edits on
June 2, 2019 at 19:51 UTC. The total number of edits on Wikipedia is currently (as of July 19, 2024)
around 1233.14 million. Do not rely on {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}, as it is significantly lower (namely by
slightly over 2.5 million) and could easily be over a year apart from the oldid field by the time each of them reach a billion.
When I was about 10 I similarly won about 7 pounds of bologna by guessing its weight. Here are some rules for improving your guessing odds, although I don't see that I used them here: Look for the biggest gap in previously guessed dates, that is in the range that looks plausible. For instance, if previous guesses are 2015, 2022 and 2024, then the odds are that the date will be between 2015 and 2022. The rules here are the closest later guess wins, even if the closest earlier guess is closer, so guess at the end of that gap, not the middle. Avoid round numbers, or in this case the calendar equivalent of round numbers like January 1 - others are likely to guess those.
Art LaPella (
talk)
01:44, 13 January 2021 (UTC)reply
January or December at midnight!.. if the earth has not been destroyed by then i guess the 1,000,000,000 edit is going to be.... a bot edit -.-. --
190.158.215.220 (
talk)
00:41, 1 October 2011 (UTC)reply
December 23, 2019: The Day We Make Contact. Oh wait, that was the year format of 2010: A Space Odyssey combined with the last possible date of the 2012 apocalypse (2 days after the more popular one).
Sagittarian Milky Way (
talk)
17:26, 4 March 2017 (UTC)reply
June 24 There's no way of knowing until we reach 999,000,000 edits when this will happen, but I figured I could put in my completely random and wild guess while there's still time.
Matthieueagan (
User talk:Matthieueagan) 01:36, June 24, 2018 (UTC)
17 December (Bonus if the minute is xx:04) The actual date's completely arbitrary but it's probably safer to assume edits are speeding up rather than slowing down as articles are. A little over 2 1/2 years feels like a good estimate, all things considered. --
Deuteranopia (talk)
18:07, 1 May 2018 (UTC)reply
16 August 2023, at midnight UTC, going by a rough calculation based on a linear estimate of edit counts on the English Wikipedia.
JIP |
Talk19:51, 1 February 2011 (UTC)reply
Yes, this is mostly silly. No non-specific guesses like "vandalism" or "rvv". Guesses can be either, the article edited, the exact content of the summary (but, again, not "rvv"), the content of added or deleted text, the number of bytes added or deleted, who makes the edit or, well, be creative, this is silly anyway. Guess as many times as you like.
It will be an automated edit by a bot that is watching for the 999,999,999th edit so that it can announce that Wikipedia has had a billion edits. Of course, there is also the possibility that it will be some bored kid who changes the name of his country's leader to "butt face" while he is supposed to be researching a school paper. Etamni |
✉ |
✓23:22, 5 November 2015 (UTC)reply
An edit to something related to the Object Show Community or a random vandaspamvertising by an anon that happens to be a wikipedian wanting to get the 1Mth edit. Or the wikiholic list. [citiation not needed]SoaPuffball (
talk)
10:38, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A spelling correction by an anonymous user, acknowlege -> acknowledge in a biology-related article. The anonymous user's name's last character will be a "4". Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)[ᴛ]23:39, 20 September 2020 (UTC)reply