Wikipedia:Quadrillion pool
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This quadrillion pool is 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 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion). 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 7,228,052.
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This pool will be closed for entries when the English Wikipedia article count reaches 800,000,000,000,000 (80%), so be sure to place your guess before then.
2020-2049
- Jun 10110, 2045. Superhuman intelligence asked to write articles, it refuses to stop till anything that can be turned into Wikiservers is. Sextillions of star systems are disassembled into Matrioshka brains powered by black holes instead of stars, starting with the Milky Way which is turned to computronium in a flash: only 5 digits Anno Domini. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:28, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
2050-9999
10000 and beyond
- July 15, 20001 139.194.37.72 (talk) 14:21, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
June 25, 19,994,169 (assuming a constant average annual article creation rate of roughly 50 million)Correction: That would be the edit rate. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 13:20, 12 April 2025 (UTC)- December 31, 20,000,025 Hellow Hellow i am here 14:40, 15 May 2025 (UTC) Assumes that the article rate increases exponentially until the article creation rate is 600,473,921 articles per decade (60,473,92.1 annually)
- 8 March, Y25.180.310 Sadly as a type III civilization we could only expand into our Andromeda Galaxy and within 25 million light years from us. Thingofme (talk) 08:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
- August 12, 2,958,470,912 (linear extrapolation based on how many days it took to get to 5 million) – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 14:58, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- 17 February 3,534,856,777, 18:18:51 UTC (Another linear extrapolation from like 1:30 or 2 pm today) - Grammar Fascist
Never
- You'd have to break Wikipedia rules to reach this. You'd have to document who am I, my memories, my wishes and all my personal information to reach this. DuyWilliam1985 (talk) 05:47, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia will cease to exist before then AlphaCent2021 (talk) 12:36, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia will be complete before then, MainPeanut (talk) 19:55, 11 February 2021
- Humanity and thus, wikipedia, will cease to exist before then. (on current rate it will take more than 2 billion years) SYSS Mouse (talk) 04:42, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
- You would have to go past the speed of light to do so, and even then, the Wikipedia servers will die.[dubious – discuss]106.68.124.55 (talk) 13:28, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- None of us will be around in four billion years, in living form. Who knows, perhaps in another distant galaxy, far away? Or shall I say the heavens? Mar4d (talk) 19:27, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- There is currently no proof that God(s) exists (In response to the above), I believe the world will end and The Amazing World of Gumball ending theme will play. Sahaib (talk) 08:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- The server of Wikimedia Foundation will be collapsed before reaching this.—WiiUf🐉 13:08, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- The number of notable topics is most likely less than one quadrillion. Thus, this wouldn't work.—Oh, It's Me! So Cool!🐉 16:37, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
After this comment is made
I'm a big genius.--BSMIsEditing (talk) 11:05, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- We have a winner I guess. -- Grapefanatic (talk) 18:48, 28 April 2023 (UTC)