This is a pool for predicting the date at which the number of articles (as defined by the official article count presented on the
Special:statistics) in the
EnglishWikipedia reaches 20,000,000 (twenty million). The person who comes closest to the actual date is the winner (of eternal fame). The current number of articles in the English Wikipedia is 6,854,697.
This pool will be closed for entries when the English Wikipedia article count reaches 16,000,000 (80%), so be sure to place your guess before then. This pool opened on September 9, 2007, shortly before the 2,000,000th article was created.
In the Past
By the time Wikipedia has 20M articles, time travel will have been invented, and the last article will be posted by someone researching (on-location) something that happened in the past. --
Ye Olde Luke23:53, 15 November 2007 (UTC)reply
03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, January 20, 2038.
24 hours previously a vast number, perhaps 80%, or all websites will have crashed, hard. Wikipedia will of course be one of those that remains, and the dispossed of other sites will overrun Wikipedia, creating a blitzkrieg of articles totally irrelevant to the purpose of an encyclopedia, but the rate will overwhelm our defences, and in this maelstrom the 20 millionth article will be created.
After this event all these pages will be moved to the new Asylum: namespace, thus allowing a second 20 millionth article to be created in the distant future.
M0ffx00:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)reply
October 3, 2057 11:35 GCT (by then, a new timezone system will have been developed, in result of colonization of other planets, hence Galactic Coordinated Time)
Crad001021:45, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
64.6294.4245, 935. 015F universe lighttime. the month are gone, year 0 is when the first universe in 015F multiverse created(015Fx0000, local name:
Aaron universe), 1 year is 1728(12^3) days, we use constant light-clock to unitize time. we lives in some rock planet revolving red dwarf, we are ready to leave any time soon, but it'll not going to happen until some trillion years. so year 6462944245, 935th day is when it will reach 20M.
The moment Wikipedia reaches 19,999,999 articles, an alien force will take over the world and demand that every next number in a list will be increased by 1/2 instead of 1 or else Earthlings will be obliterated. Once this is done, they will change the requirement to 1/4, then 1/8, then 1/16, then 1/32, then...the geometric series is such that we'll never reach 20,000,000 till the
heat death of the universe. 23191Pa (chat me!)
08:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)reply
This is a pool for predicting the date at which the number of articles (as defined by the official article count presented on the
Special:statistics) in the
EnglishWikipedia reaches 20,000,000 (twenty million). The person who comes closest to the actual date is the winner (of eternal fame). The current number of articles in the English Wikipedia is 6,854,697.
This pool will be closed for entries when the English Wikipedia article count reaches 16,000,000 (80%), so be sure to place your guess before then. This pool opened on September 9, 2007, shortly before the 2,000,000th article was created.
In the Past
By the time Wikipedia has 20M articles, time travel will have been invented, and the last article will be posted by someone researching (on-location) something that happened in the past. --
Ye Olde Luke23:53, 15 November 2007 (UTC)reply
03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, January 20, 2038.
24 hours previously a vast number, perhaps 80%, or all websites will have crashed, hard. Wikipedia will of course be one of those that remains, and the dispossed of other sites will overrun Wikipedia, creating a blitzkrieg of articles totally irrelevant to the purpose of an encyclopedia, but the rate will overwhelm our defences, and in this maelstrom the 20 millionth article will be created.
After this event all these pages will be moved to the new Asylum: namespace, thus allowing a second 20 millionth article to be created in the distant future.
M0ffx00:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)reply
October 3, 2057 11:35 GCT (by then, a new timezone system will have been developed, in result of colonization of other planets, hence Galactic Coordinated Time)
Crad001021:45, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
64.6294.4245, 935. 015F universe lighttime. the month are gone, year 0 is when the first universe in 015F multiverse created(015Fx0000, local name:
Aaron universe), 1 year is 1728(12^3) days, we use constant light-clock to unitize time. we lives in some rock planet revolving red dwarf, we are ready to leave any time soon, but it'll not going to happen until some trillion years. so year 6462944245, 935th day is when it will reach 20M.
The moment Wikipedia reaches 19,999,999 articles, an alien force will take over the world and demand that every next number in a list will be increased by 1/2 instead of 1 or else Earthlings will be obliterated. Once this is done, they will change the requirement to 1/4, then 1/8, then 1/16, then 1/32, then...the geometric series is such that we'll never reach 20,000,000 till the
heat death of the universe. 23191Pa (chat me!)
08:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)reply