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See also, the archived Signpost article covering the millionth article, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-03-06/Millionth article.
Wikipedia:Pools
Closed pools
Half-million pool
666,666th pool
Million pool
Two-million pool
Four-million pool
Five-million pool (1)
Five-million pool (2)
Six-million pool
6,666,666th pool
Millionth topic
Two-millionth topic
Three-millionth topic
Five-millionth topic
Six-millionth topic
300-million edits
Billionth edit
Five-thousandth FA (1)
Five-thousandth FA (2)
1000th Wikimedia wiki
Closed for voting
Seven-million pool
Eight-million pool
Open for voting
7,500,000th pool
Nine-million pool
Ten-million pool
Eleven-million pool
Twelve-million pool
Thirteen-million pool
Fifteen-million pool
Twenty-million pool
Fifty-million pool
Hundred-million pool
Billion pool
Eleventy-billion pool
Trillion pool
Quadrillion pool
100-million page pool
Seven-millionth topic
Eight-millionth topic
Nine-millionth topic
Ten-millionth topic
Eleven-millionth topic
Twelve-millionth topic
Thirteen-millionth topic
Fifteen-millionth topic
Last topic
1.5-billionth edit
Two-billionth edit
Last edit
Ten thousandth FA
500th language

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 6,828,211 articles.

March 2005

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

September 2005

October 2005

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)

December 2005

January 2006

February 2006

March 2006

April 2006

May 2006

June 2006

July 2006

August 2006

September 2006

October 2006

November 2006

December 2006

January 2007

February 2007

March 2007

David Lindgren

April 2007

May 2007

June 2007

July 2007

August 2007

September 2007

October 2007

November 2007

December 2007

January 2008

February 2008

March 2008

May 2008

November 2008

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)

January 2009

March 2009

October 2009

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

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)

Never

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

Invalid, uninterpretable, and just plain silly guesses

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)

Midnight of Never

  • Will there be a miracle? No. 6,828,211 -- 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.

After the Final Conflagration

Desolation

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

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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