Wikipedia:Fifty-million pool

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 50,000,000 (fifty 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 7,249,135.

This pool will be closed for entries when the English Wikipedia article count reaches 40,000,000 (80%), so be sure to place your guess before then.

2026–2100

• 2050 (January 1st) - Workster (talk) 19:02, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
• February 30, 2086 - Also assuming the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar is finally adopted. --Imdill3 (talk) 07:13, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
• Febuary 19 2093. my expectations (by anomynous) 09:50 10 June 2023
• July 9, 2098. Quote me on this. I might still be alive. Generalissima (talk) 17:32, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
• July 10, 2098. A day after the above, because why not. Sahaib (talk) 07:59, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

2101 or later

• 2123--Seonookim (What I've done so far) (I'm busy here) (Tell me your requests) 06:33, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
• February 22, 2128 --Proud User (talk) 19:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
• 20th October 2161 AlphaCent2021 (talk) 12:38, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
• 1 January 2170 - Trevoran (talk) 03:22, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
• 8 May 2176. JIP | Talk 08:05, 4 October 2026 (UTC)
• December 26, 2217 Benica11 (talk) 22:55, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
• May 31, 2267 Thingofme (talk) 03:17, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
• Tuesday, October 11, 2231 Кощки123 (talk) 01:13, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
• May 1, 2357. DANGA14^talk 20:25, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• June 9, 2420 Realmaxxver (talk) 19:59, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
• April 1, 3000, MainPeanut (talk) 20:16, 11 February 2021
• July 15, 3175 - 139.194.37.72 (talk) 14:22, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
• 5 August 3192. This is my prediction on when will English Wikipedia will reach 50 million articles. My prediction may not be correct but waiting 1,166 years would be extremely long. And also will Wikipedia even exist at all by the time it reaches 50 million articles? Who knows, but i guess we have to wait.- Wikipedian2025 (talk) 17:08, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Never

I think it would take until, at least, the 2130s for this to happen at article-creation rates and I doubt this will be around then. I mean 120 years before Wikipedia radio looks to have been in experimental stages at best--T. Anthony (talk) 10:03, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

• Because Wikipedia would have ended by then! StevenD99 03:53, 25 July 2014 (UTC)