Wikipedia:Five-million pool

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shortcut: WP:5MP

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 English Wikipedia reaches 5,000,000 (five 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 1,727,915.

This pool will be closed for entries when the English Wikipedia article count reaches 2,500,000, so be sure to place your guess before then. This pool opened on March 21, 2005, shortly after the 500,000th article was created.

Other milestone pools that are still open include the following: Wikipedia:Ten-million pool.

For non-serious topical pools, see Wikipedia:Millionth topic pool and Wikipedia:Two-millionth topic pool.

It is currently 2007 April 8 (UTC). Guesses for prior dates will still be eligible to win if a later guess isn't closer to the actual date than the earlier date. Please be aware, however, that attempts at guessing a prior date may be seen by some as a humor entry.

[edit] Never

It is not possible, The sum of all knowlegde < 5,000,000 articles --Clawed 05:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Shortly after the heat death of the sun. ALKIVAR™ 01:40, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
After pi is found to be a rational number. Sango 123 23:07, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
When Romania denies having ever had yellow in their flag when it has yellow now. Barely There 12:07, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
When boys start being named Sarah. HellRaiser 04:43, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
After blindness is found to be just a state of mind. Jesus Lover 05:27, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
When a vandal named User:Willy on Wheels ON WHEELS!!!!!haha takes complete control of Wikipedia, and uses it to destroy every Internet connection in France, creating 5,000,000 articles in the process. --Mark J 19:09, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
When Essex becomes a independent country. --Weirdguy 06:42, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
At this rate, it will be after 2012. Gogo December 21, 2012. - RPharazon 03:56, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
When the Wikimedia Foundation takes over every company in the world, creating 4,595,151 articles in the process.--207.200.116.136 20:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Not if the mergists have a say :) Deckiller 01:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
When the People's Action Party loses control of the government in Singapore. (nah, just kidding. real guess below) - splot 07:07, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
$\Tau_{\frac{1}{2}} = \inf$ Isopropyl 05:57, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Delete. Not notable. ;-) DarthVad e r 08:44, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Never, Everytime Wikipedia gets 5 million Articles, Andrea Yates appears puts all 5 Million articles in her bathtub until they drown, and Wikipedia has to star all over again 12.183.203.184 08:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Today

Whenever it happens, there will be a huge announcement: "Wikipedia Hit 5,000,000 Mark Today" What do I win? CrazyLegsKC 01:00, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I win too. Rentastrawberry 03:49, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

And then, the next day, there will be news that say "Wikipedia Hit 5,000,000 Mark Yesterday". You lose. --Joe Schme^(ssages)dley 21:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

2007 - April - 8 I win too. --antilived ^{T | C} 05:02, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
I win three ! The Procrastinator 00:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
What do you win for ?--Neverland 17:39, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
The exact day is: April 8, 2007. Yay! I win. --GeorgeMoney ^T·C 16:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Day before tommorow

Psychomelodic (people think (people think Baba Ram Dass ^{write your own!}) ^edit) 20:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1970

January 1, midnight precisely. I mean, hey, there's at least a one-in-a-billion chance that something will reset the server's ctime just before the five-millionth article, right? So I have a very small probability of getting it right down to the second instead of a slightly larger probability of getting it to within a year tops. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 05:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1991

I win!! :) Sango 123 July 5, 2005 17:02 (UTC)

[edit] 1999

August 1 - The digital world screws everything else up, so why not? birdboy2000 22:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

Febuary 19th Devnill 22:41, 1 March 2006 (EST)
February 27 Oliver Keenan 10:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
July 25,My birthday.Toonmon2005 22:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
August 8 DesiVideoGamer 20:35, 1 March 2006 (EST)
November 1 Tanker 17:55, 1 March 2006 (PST)

[edit] 2007

January 25 No particular reason -- Hindleyite 21:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
February 29 - it's going to be a busy day -- Joolz 21:10, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
March 14 - Pi Day '07! ~Linuxerist L / T 03:15, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
April 21 - One year after my first offical edit! Acs4b 06:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
May 8 - two years after the creation of Wikisolutions, witch led to WikiHowTo -- Moa3333 01:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
8 June nocternaloxide 16:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
June 20 -- As good as date as any. Wikipedia is one of the most phenomenal projects of this century... I could see it at five million. Of course, this is just a total guess. michaelb 21:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
July 1. --JuntungWu 11:16, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
July 2. --Gamingboy 17:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
July 4 - My Birthday! :) Michael Furdyk (and America's!--IAMTHE E GGMAN (talk) 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC))
September 1. --bainer (talk) 23:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
November 18. →Iñgōlemo← ^talk 20:33, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC)
September 19 24.54.208.177 18:25, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
September 25 (The end of the world!) --IAMTHE E GGMAN (talk) 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
September 29 CCMichalZ 22:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
August 4 - My Birthday. -DesPeaux
October 13. --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 16:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
October 23 Gflores ^Talk 21:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
November 29 AlexR 01:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
December 10 - Who in their right mind would want to be sane? Cyner 23:07, 01 March 2006 (UTC)
December 12 - Ek7 21:33, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
December 19, Kostja 17:05, 2005 May 15 (UTC)
December 25, Joseph Solis 03:14 UTC, April 8, 2006
December 31 - I know this is not the right date. But within a million on this day kaiser matias 07:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2008

January 1--Acebrock 08:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
January 6 Runtime April 16, 2006
18 January SpirckleM 18:18, 1 Mar 2006 (PST)
25 January - Tazza 10:32, 02 March 2006 (Australian WST)
6 February - when I turn 20. zanzer7 09:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
10 February - according to a very questionable neural network model. +-7 months with 95% confidence, or so it claims. --Denoir 21:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
13 February - Sage Tuvitor 04:35, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
17 February - gausie 00:09, 15 May 2006 (GMT)
20 February - Two years should be enough. :) --Galaxy001 21:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
23 February - Fred-Chess 13:25, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
February 27, 2008 16:27 and 12 seconds and 43 milliseconds EST ToldYouSo
28 February - claiming by 27th b'day. Alba 16:47, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
29 February - not my guess, just pointing out that it could occur on this once in every 4 years day.--Hamedog_Talk|^@ 13:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
15 March Ral315 (talk) 18:27, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
16 March. Schutz 17:45, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
18 March I'm predicting a biographical entry. ~Kylu (u|t) 01:11, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
March 25 Kevin Baas^talk 00:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
March 26 --Jonathan ^talk 18:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
April 1 rfernand
April 2 - Acebrock 07:07, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
3 April, when I turn 50. Communism is Stupid 08:36, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
April 6 I had to do the regression by hand! TJ0513 15:37, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
11 April --Stoopideggs2 04:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
24 April — This will be my 20. birthday ;) FBali 19:00, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
29 April - extrapolation Andrew_pmk | Talk 01:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
1 May--GwydionM 18:13, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
5 May--JD 06:05, 02 March 2006 (UTC)
May 8 --Lyght 03:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
10 May -- 124.168.67.249 09:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
19 May -- Chris Ccool2ax contrib. 15:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
23 May --TechnoGuyRob 23:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
30 May -- >|< shablog ^talk/_cont 18:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
3 June --JAHall 04:21, 4 May 2006 (EST)
8 June nocternaloxide 16:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
[[June 10} Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme 14:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
12 June User: Gwidion 16:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
14 June so9q 14:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC) YES! will probably be adjusted before closure.
15 June don't ask why - but i will change this @2,400,900 --Zayani 15:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
17 June --Pelotas^talk 19:34, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
19 June --Amir E. Aharoni 08:14, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
June 22 --HurricaneJeanne 07:31, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
July 1 Canada Day!!! --Canuck85 07:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
July 11 -- current natural log regression prediction. --Ybbor^T 23:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
12 July, my 20th birthday. --Ilovedanieljackson 16:28, 2 March 2006
14 July gadfium 18:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
17 July Rhall4Happy 30th bday me.
23 July --Emijrp 10:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
August 1 --Carnildo 04:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
August 4 - [Multimiedia Fairyland] - Acerperi 03:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
August 9 -- EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 12:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
August 10, Leithp 13:02, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
August 13 --Gerrit ^CUTEDH 11:35, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
August 17 Childzy_talk^contribs 17:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
August 20 - Miyu 09:42, 2 March 2006 (CAT)
August 25, --Snagglepuss 14:06, 3 March 2006 (EST)
August 26, - Nils 14:42, 2 March 2006 (CET)
August 27 seems like a nice date. Witt y lama 01:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
30 August, --light darkness ^(talk) 02:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
August 31 - Nzd (talk) 23:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
1 September --Neo3DGfx 06:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
September 2 --Hu Totya 02:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
September 15--Durean 7:33, August 8, 2006 (UTC)
September 28 David | Talk 17:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
September 31 -- American champagne 21:26, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
1 October 23:09 (UTC) -Scottwiki 08:07, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
4 October Nrohan 06:55 PM, 2 March 2006 IST
5 October PKtm 04:02, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
15 October - Crystallina 21:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
16 October - 2 years to the day after my 2 million edit guess; once again, the rational is obvious. Tim Sailor 15:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
19 October - Well, it is my birthday, after all. --Christhebull 19:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
22 October Yeah, Its gonna happen then Jetteleigh 23:44 March 1, 2006 (EST)
23 October - Mole Day! -- FlocciNonFacio 00:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
26 October --Húsönd 17:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
November 4 Kevin Ray 08:55, 1 October 2006 (UTC) It's the US Presidential Elections!
11 November Jmstylr 16:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
17 November Ter e nc e Ong (恭喜发财) 06:58, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
18 November Another birthday present for me! Ezratrumpet 00:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
November 21 --kralahome 23:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
November 23 BLong
November 28 My real guess--Hamedog_Talk|^@ 13:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
December 1 --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 11:28, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
8 Dec In keeping with the trend, I'm guessing my birthday. With the rapid growth of Wikipedia, I don't expect to be off by more than a year or so. YechielMan 23:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
11 Dec guess User: Septa
December 14 Rob ert 17:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
December 17 I know I'm right. EamonnPKeane 17:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
December 24 14:24 ddrager 10:42, 1 Mar 2006 (EST)
December 31 2000 hrs UTC \Mikez 08:57, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
December 12 Hot water heater 15:06, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
December 26 Nationalparks 02:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
December 31 Chris M. 14:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2009

January 1, 2009. Don Proctor March 1, 2006 (UTC)
January 7, 2009 at 7:15 AM.
January 12 - Amphytrite 02:23, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
2009-01-14 — coelacan talk — 00:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
January 25, 2009 Don Gray March 1,2006 (UTC)
February 2--T. Anthony 15:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
February 11 - --131.251.0.7 16:48, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
February 13--Pkrzic 20:44, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
February 22 Juppiter 05:02, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
February 24 - JustPhil 10:58, 7 April 2006 (UTC) (my 20th birthday!)
February 26 - Jpo 17:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
March 1 TraxPlayer 11:05, 2 March 2006 (GMT+1)
March 9 Niffweed17, Destroyer of Chickens 02:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
March 14, 3:14:59 Smartech 06:50, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
MARCH 24-Avi wizardWell ya it is my Birthday......and I hope 5 million are completed on this day!!!
March 20, Stormscape 01:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC) (My 20th birthday yay!)
April 6 — Sarge Baldy 01:25, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
April 9 TheCoffee 20:28, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
April 16 My birthday, plus coming off an election year there will be a lot of new articles--Seventy-one 07:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
23 April - St. George's Day - Andrew 16:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
April 26 — Michael J 01:05, 3 May 2006 (UTC) (My 50th birthday!)
May 1 - —AySz88 \^-^ 23:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
May 8 -- Samuel Wantman 19:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
May 10 - Mitch119 10:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
May 11 - Denjak 8:29, 03 March 2006
May 12 — Sintonak.X 14:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
May 15 at 00:23:32 UTC - skagedal^... 17:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
May 17 - Simondrake 16:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
May 21 - Mailer Diablo 17:48, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
May 25 - Lesgles (talk) 23:30, 7 May 2006 (UTC) (graduation)
May 28 --Liface
June 1 bnlacava 11:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
June 14 - splot 07:13, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
June 28 - Quesotiotyo 8:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
July 13 - Mdelves 09:38, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
July 19 - UD490 01:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
July 24 - Xerol 22:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
June 29 Howard the Duck 07:06, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
July 27 - RitaE 8:29, 03 March 2006
August 6 - Qmaqdk 23:20, August 15, 2006 (UTC)
August 9 ...Scott⁵¹¹⁴ 02:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
August 17, at about half-past ten. Matt Yeager 07:12, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
August 19 3:28 A.M. Flying Hamster 21:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
August 20 at 13:37, but I don't think I'll be around to notice it... Qevlarr 19:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
August 23, 2009 John William Whitaker March 2,2006 (UTC)
August 31, Marcos Juárez 04:33, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- August 31 at 12:27pm, and 29 seconds (UTC) Think outside the box 11:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
September 1, --NerdEF 16:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
September 2, my 23rd birthday and I will create it. TJ Spyke 02:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
September 10 Chefette1223 17:47, 1 November 2006 (UTC) when i turn 18, it has to be sign ,i will create it myself, go Essex CCC
September 15 Ydam 01:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
18 September - My 30th birthday. Js farrar 04:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
September 27, my birthday and also around the time when people are back at school and work - and Wikipedia. CountdownCrispy 14:21, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
October 4, but only if we start deleting garbage, such as many of the unwatched articles. Cool Hand Luke 02:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
October 12, Cimon avaro; on a pogostick. 08:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
10 October - Also my 21st Birthday. ~ PH DrillSergeant...§ 05:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
October 15 - Wikada - ^{Talk Contribs} 22:08, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
October 19, probably some pop culture figure/cartoon (like pokemon or a computer game character) - Kristod 23:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
October 23 Mahanga^{Talk to me} 18:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
November 4 - Trevor Andersen 05:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
November 14 - Eivind ^t ^@^c 07:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
December 15 - Mikker ^(...) 03:10, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
December 31 - Some poor bastard will have nothing better do on New Year's Eve. :D Druworos 13:23, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2010

January 1 -- JonasRH 11:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
January 15, on wikipedia day --Cfcrule1 22:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
January 26 - Yann 23:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
January 28 --Havocrazy 02:07, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
January 30 --Zzzzzzzzzz 21:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
February 2 --HarryKnock 11:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
February 20 - Chris 21:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
February 2010, during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Scott Gall 07:56, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)
March 9, Neutron65 04:47, 18 Aug 2005 (UTC)
March 18, 20:47:12 UTC. JIP | Talk 09:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
May 1 -- Warofdreams talk 01:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
July 17 - cybersaga 02:54, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
July 19 - TeckWiz 19:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
27 July - El cid the hero 12:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
August 3--Devahn58 16:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
September 6, 04:38 UTC -- Jonny 07:20, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
September 22 - Dvandetta March 1, 2006, 6:05pm PST
August 17 -- FeldBum 01:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
September 12 -- Raguiar 08:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
October 10 -- Clayto 08:01, 2 March 2006 (EST)
November 2010 - it should be a surprise for my 30th birthday. [[User:NazismIsntCool|Nazis m isn't cool]] 07:48, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
November 15 --Surachit 01:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
November 17 -- I Don't know something the rest of you Don't Really I Don't...--St.daniel 14:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
December 28 -- Duozmo 10:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
December 29 -- (8:39) this should be a good birthday present. (Noah Dayspring)
December 31 -- Car salesman 20:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2011

January 10, leveling Simply south 17:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
January 27, RyanGerbil10 20:38, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
February 4, owlny 01:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
February 14, how romantic. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:05, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
March 18, my 30th birthday, Renatta 00:07, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
April 12, 2011, judging by the rate Wikipedia is growing I'm probably not far off here... --Mark J 20:32, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
April 14 - the day I can register to vote! Johnleemk | Talk 07:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
April 17, 2011 - my 20th birthday =) --antilived ^{trash vandal results} 11:15, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
May 3, 2011 - Will Mak 050389
June 17 - nobody
June 30 - graduating from university, ish - Jack · talk · 18:52, Sunday, 4 February 2007
July 9 - Average Earthman 04:45, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
July 15 - Slumgum 02:04, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
August 12, 2011, Llamadog903 11:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
September 10, Let's hope the internet still has freedom Jeremyh 13:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
October 2 --Thorsen 08:00, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
November 13, 2011, 12.30 UTC. SqueakBox 18:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
September 1, it'll be then! 12:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
September 14, on the assumption that the number of articles doubles every 18 months, a la Moore's Law (assuming I did the math correctly from 2007-04-02, 1.72m articles). — Loadmaster 14:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
November 29 ez lesz a dátum, ha nyerek értesítsetek 2006 március 4.

[edit] 2012

January 1 - another New Year and an even bigger wiki. Wikipikarefulgenschu 01:39, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
January 23 at 1:37 PM (13:37!) --Minoru 20:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
March 20, 2012, at 3:32 P.M.; of course, by 2012, the U.S. will have finally started using 24 hour clocks. Deltabeignet 06:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
March 24, 2012 --Pozsy 23:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
April 1, 2012, that'd be a neat birthday present for me! Matt0401 22:23, 1 March 2006 (EST)
April 18 at 3:26 a.m. UTC for no reason at all --Ravi12346 03:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
May 12, 2012. user 24.171.36.233
July 21, of course - 22:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
August 1 Pigslookfunny 00:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
September 17, 2012This is the date i think it'll hit 5 million articles! meekzzz 23:00, 1 March 2006 (EST)
October 14 is my guess Homestarmy 16:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
November 6 This election day in the USA when the democrat who is elected president in 2008 is re-elected will also be when Wikipedia hits five million articles. Workster 19:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
December 5, My Birthday! The ed17 19:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC) (talk)
December 15, 2012, possibly 4:52 a.m. UTC - Tim Q. Wells 05:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
December 21, 2012, because something has to happen that day. Anomaly1 02:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree it will happen in 2012. It will either happen on December 21 (my 25th birthday) or December 24 (the day the Aztecs predicted the world will end. A documentary that predicted the ending of the world based on the Bible also said this date). --Ted87 02:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

December 30 My 35 Birthday. I guessed 5 years earlier for the Wikipedia:Two-million pool --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 18:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
December 31 The expiration of the Kyoto Protocols should be good for a laugh. J•A•K 00:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2013

June 22 -- Earl Andrew - talk 06:21, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
13 Smarch, after it's decided that all individual humans are notable, and they simultaneously reach forth from their nano cybercores to insert entries on themselves, causing the biggest meganet crash since 2008. R adiant _>|< 12:41, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
18 July -Reuvenk_{T C E} 02:16, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
August 12 At 9:30 am, the date of my birthday
August 22 01:33 GMT David 14:19, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
September 25 Jet Engines 18:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
December 7. Because it's my birthday --Monsterxxl 17:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
December 11. My Birthday, and considering 500.000 articles every year, this year is my choice. 12345_lewis
December 31 Peak groth will be at 2.500.000 articles around June 2008 HenkvD 19:10, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2014

25 January --Neo 11:04, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
14 July Yrithinnd 01:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
August 27 - no reason. --Joe Schme^(ssages)dley 21:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
September 9, assuming a linear growth rate since 0.5 million, and using 0.5, 1 and 1.5 million as data points. No, I don't really believe that linear growth is a correct model. --User101010 18:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
26 September -My 31st Birthday (yikes!)-Captain Bob 07:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
January 18, 2014 – b_jonas 16:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
April 22 Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2015

January 24 - My 30th birthday, why not? Pax 05:55, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
March 26 - No particular reason, but it's the first date that came to mind for me. FreakyFlyBry 05:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
June 24 - this is reasonable. — Sverdrup 00:28, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
June 12 --Fir0002 07:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2016

April 14!!! I'm betting five bucks on this one. -- Mac Davis ☢ ญƛ. 08:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

October 19 Bennity 11:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
December 9 G Clark 02:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

November 18 - Berserkerz Crit 15:36, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2017

12 November because it is the correct date-> 14 hours before the technological singularity occurs. Adelord 09:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
28 December -- Grun t ҈ 02:35, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC)

[edit] 2018

22 - 02 - 18 (Roy van Rijn) --217.195.241.2 09:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2019

The fifty-seventh day of 2019. --Berney 21:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

April 3, 2019. --Nomader 00:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2020-2021

June 15, 2020, this was a tough prediction, but I think the middle of 2020 is the way to go. --Evan Robidoux 19:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

May 15, 2021. 23:59 hrs UTC - If I'm right, I'll probably be dead before this day comes. :( Ryan 07:17, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

August 17, 2020, whereupon Wikipedia will receive perfect vision (and subsequently receive an asolute barrage of new articles, as I've also predicted that this is the date where Wikipedia will receive its eleventy-billionth post). Matt Yeager 06:14, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

October 10, 2021, when the police snipers finally take me down. Proto 12:51, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2022-2023

Better than Human AI achieve consciousness and names him self Tay The Procrastinator 00:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

March 15, 2022 My 35th birthday 24.199.216.91 04:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)Procty

July 14, 2022 Dang that's far away...I'll be 34. Zarxos 03:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

October 23, 2023 I just have a feeling. Chachilongbow 16:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2024/2025

July 10, 2025. Give or take 2 years, 3 months and 27 days. - Ghelae^talk_contribs 15:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

March 2 or March 10, 2025. Think about it, you know it makes sense. Daesumnor 01:59, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2026-2027

May 2, 2027 - [[1]] (it will be my 40th birthday !)

May 12, 2027 on my ~~40th~~ birthday (oops I will be 50 haha, oh I am an old fart!). By then Wikipedia will do datadumps to our brains every third millisecond.--Adam ^(talk) 02:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2028-2029

Just before Skynet declares martial law over the Internet and sends his T-800s after us.- JustPhil 21:07, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2030-2034

September 16, 2031 --Astrowob 20:00, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
September 17.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333... 20:27, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2035-2039

[edit] 2038

[edit] January 2038

January 18, 2038 - the day before civilization collapses along with unix time. -- Cyrius|✎

[edit] 2040-2044

4 october 2040 it will be the 23rd article published that day and it will be the 5 millionth ever. (----)

[edit] 2045-2049

6 September Ashibaka tock 03:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2050 or later

Exactly 1 year after the moment we land a person on Mars. (please move this vote when we've landed on Mars :)) -- BRIAN0918 15:14, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Does "we" mean Americans or mankind?? (it may will be two different landing events)

"We" refers to the squirrel population in Antarctica, of course. Sango 123 July 5, 2005 17:00 (UTC)

Does a monkey still count? :) Smartech 02:53, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Since people are technically just a breed of monkeys, yes. --86.130.24.206 15:12, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

No - technically people are a breed of ape, not monkeys. Both though a part of the primate group. David Ruben ^Talk 01:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Why don't we just say:

When a lifeform from Earth intentionally lands themself or another lifeform from Earth onto Mars or one of its satellites.

--Joe Schme^(ssages)dley 21:39, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

March 14, [2]159 2:65:35.89793238 UTC. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 04:09, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2094

God I wish I could live to see it.199.111.230.195 00:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../f/i/v/Wikipedia%7EFive-million_pool_5575.html"

Category: Wikipedia pools