Wikipedia talk:Millionth topic pool

message: I WON!! Mark J 16:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, as this thing gets older, it'd be nice to see how many of these actually get turned into articles.  The best way to prevent yours from being created is to make it abstract enough that it doesn't get created while still giving you the chance to vote on the general topic.  -- BRIAN0918  14:29, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: It has to come pretty much darned close to the creation of the millionth article. Otherwise there'll be plenty of time for some ruddy funsters to make an article about every guess, thus ruining the whole pool as voters can't very well go back and change their guesses after closing time.  — JIP | Talk 16:12, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How about approximately when the number of articles in the pool is equal to the number of articles which need to be created to reach 1M... So currently this would be a couple of hours, but it would approach a couple of days or weeks as more and more people add their guess. Erm dunno why I suggested this, but it seems to fit in with the generally weird feeling of the pool. --Neo 16:45, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: I predict that when the Wikpedia articles reach about the above number, and possibly before, the creators will put comments on the relevant talk pages asking whether they have created the millionth article. Ditto when other milestones are reached.
Someone will, as the number of articles reaches 999 000 write an article calculating the rate at which articles are being generated, and extrapolate to when a google/other large number of articles are created and/or when Wikipedia will fill the whole of the Internet as it then exists. (move to project page if appropriate) Jackiespeel 17:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Guess about articles 999 500 and above

message: Here is a good strategy: Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hot and pick something. Samohyl Jan 14:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  a good strategy 

message: We're over 850,000 articles now.  Are we going to keep the pool open until a million (in which case whoever gets here at the right time might be able to cheat and win), or close it before that? --Idont Havaname 21:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  How long does this stay open? 

message: You could decide one article is the mllionth but then an article that came before it could be deleted making your article number 999,999. The article numbers are always in flux. also, how do you know what number a certain article is. It is not like it says anywhere.--God_of War 08:10, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: How will you know what the millionth article is?

message: We currently have 212 different language editions of Wikipedia (or 120, if you restrict the list to languages with at least 100 articles). m:List_of_Wikipedias. Should we have a non-serious pool for predicting when the number of languages reaches 500 (predictions to include the 500th language)?-gadfium 23:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created the pool at Wikipedia:500th language pool.-gadfium 22:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Idea for a new pool

message: ...to create the articles that everbody has listed here, once the count gets to about 999,500 or so. In a way this could be good for wikipedia, to get a few more stubs made. That is, of course, as long as people don't just make a load of stupid articles...in which case, WP:AFD is going to get extremely busy around that time... Mushintalk 00:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol :) Mushintalk 19:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  It will just end up a mad rush.... 

message: I locked this article, since the pool closed a few days ago. Good luck everyone! :) Acetic Acid 10:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is because the "closed notice" invited admins to lock the page, and so someone actually did.  This is not the case on the other pools.  --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I think it's time to unlock it for a reason further down this talk page. Georgia guy 00:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locked 

message: I need to edit the article by updating the pool links. The Two-million pool is closed and the new Ten-million pool has now been created. Georgia guy 23:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit protecting 

message: Well, I think I have a strong case for winning this pool. I predicted 'February 2006 Scottish War of Independence'. Now okay, the millionth article has nothing to do with war, but it has plenty to do with Scotland! And beat this - I also predicted the correct date... to within a day! If only we'd reached a million one day earlier... The combination of these two factors must give me a strong case for winning, since any article about a February 2006 event would surely be written in February or early March. I'd love to hear people's opinion on this, but frankly, I think I've won. Mark J 16:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did I win? 

message: I think we should vote to decide who has won. I propose to award the one who has received most votes within a week from now. --Army1987 19:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's vote 

message: I almost pissed my pants when I saw it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3aMillionth_topic_pool#Time There are only two suggestions listed under the Time heading of this page. The first one is todays date, April 16, 2013. How the heck did this guy post the date of the Boston Marathon attack? Of all dates to be there, that guy just picked out the day of the biggest attack on the United States since September 11. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Maybe occurances of disasters are so common that whatever the date would be, there would be something. But at this scale, it is just mind boggling. Was that random date just put in to make us ask "what if?" only for it to coincidentally be of memorable date? Have there been any other instances of wikipedia prophecy?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.25.189.72 (talk) 04:54, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Right now it says "November 2, 2015" it changes lol. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 19:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should there be a link to prophecies?