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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 6,891,054.

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, Wikipedia:Billion pool, Wikipedia:Eleventy-billion pool and Wikipedia:Trillion pool.

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

It is currently 2024 October 4 (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.

Never

  • 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)[reply]

Today

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

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)[reply]

1991

I win!! :) Sango123 July 5, 2005 17:02 (UTC)

1999

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

2005

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2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

October 19 Bennity 11:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
December 9 G Clark 02:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC) April 14!!! I'm betting five bucks on this one. -- Mac Davisญƛ. 08:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2017

2018

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

2019

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

April 3rd, 2019. --Nomader 00:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2020-2021

May 15th, 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)[reply]

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

2022-2023

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

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

2024/2025

July 10, 2025. Give or take 2 years, 3 months and 27 days. - Ghelaetalkcontribs 15:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

2026-2027

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

May 12th, 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)[reply]

2028-2029

2030-2034

2035-2039

2038

January 2038

2040-2044

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

2045-2049

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. Sango123 July 5, 2005 17:00 (UTC)
Does a monkey still count? :) Smartech 02:53, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Since people are technically just a breed of monkeys, yes. --86.130.24.206 15:12, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

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