Wikipedia talk:Millionth topic pool

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I WON!! Mark J 16:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it's best not to wikilink the article names in the guesses, as that would only encourage someone to actually write an article about them long before the millionth article, which would cause the guesses to fail. — JIP | Talk 14:27, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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)

It was my original intention to keep this pool open until a month/week/day before the millionth article will probably be created, since it is not supposed to be a serious pool. Any suggestions? -- BRIAN0918  15:08, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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)
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)

Does anyone know what the 500,000th article was? --Angr 22:34, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hey! I know how to spell Nicolae Ceausescu! I also know how to spell J. M. Straczynski, Ben Zyskowicz and Petro Tyschtschenko! — JIP | Talk 05:40, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Leave Nicolae Ceaucescu out of this. He's dead. HellRaiser 05:45, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Autofellatio in the Vatican[edit]

  • I'm actually a Romanian Orthodox, however, because I know so much about Catholicism, the "autofellatio in the Vatican" guess, although funny, might be about something that will never happen. Since when has a cardinal/pope "abused" himself in that way? Nobody does it in my church. [[User:NazismIsntCool|Nazism isn't cool]] 12:20, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) PS: I think that if anybody did that in the Vatican, the Pope should kick them out.
    • I second that. I know a few people who do that, but they're lucky they're not in the Vatican. Scott Gall 12:26, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
      • I saw a guess you made. It was "Who Wants to be a Millionaire hosts perform autofellatio while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance." How can you recite the Pledge if your mouth is - 'scuse the French - clogged up? I can't understand it. [[User:NazismIsntCool|Nazism isn't cool]] 12:28, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
        • I think they will have practiced. And why's your name in those colors? Are you Romanian? Scott Gall 12:31, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
          • I was born in Romania, but I now live in Washington DC. [[User:NazismIsntCool|Nazism isn't cool]] 12:33, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
        • j00'v b33n pwned! Y? |<0z i /\/\4|>3 4 gu355 b4s3d 0n j00rs. /\/\||\|3 \/\//-\5 "Who Wants to be a Millionaire hosts perform autofellatio while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and wiping their butt with the Chinese flag." Barely There 12:25, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
          • Emilia, you're just as leet as your sister, who, because of her deteriorating peripheral vision, didn't read the yellow notice at the top of my talk page, which said that discussions should not be in leet. Scott Gall 12:29, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)
            • What about one of the one I made about those game show hosts wiping the dog's butt with the Chinese flag? It's best with a dog. :-) HellRaiser 05:41, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I think the idea behind this poll isn't really to attempt to predict the millionth topic, but rather to show how smart you think you are by suggesting the most outrageous suggestion. Therefore there are a number of suggestions which do not make any sense at all.
I don't like the whole autofellatio line which some suggestions are taking, but its not my place to censor Wikipedia. So, make suggestions if you want, laugh at those which are funny or riduculous, mock those people who think that anything involving autofellatio is funny... but don't take this poll too seriously! --Neo 12:51, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)


Guess about articles 999 500 and above[edit]

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)[reply]

  • Google = company. Googol = large number. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-25 20:22
    • There isn't enough electricity in the universe to create a googol pages, never mind the server that would be required to host those pages. Curuinor 04:16, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Trying to write something in the last minutes of a half hour slot on a library computer"-itis.

My predictions are still valid - and for any large numbers around - megistron? (g).

Jackiespeel

a good strategy[edit]

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

How long does this stay open?[edit]

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)[reply]

  • I vote that it be closed at 975,000 articles. Any seconds?? --Cyde Weys [u] [t] [c] 23:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Since it's not supposed to be that serious, and since most people won't even find this page until we get much closer to 1 million, I would suggest 990,000, or 995,000, but I don't care either way. — 0918BRIAN • 2005-12-19 20:08
      • It's more likely people will cheat by making the pages! See my message below. Mushintalk 00:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • Yeah, but... five thousand? ～J.K. 01:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
          • You mean five hundred? That was just a random arbitrary figure, my point still stands. Mushintalk 01:18, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
            • No, I mean five thousand, per Brian's more practical figure. Most of the article topics in the pool strike me as clear CSDs, so your idea below seems unfortunately naïve. More to the point, it is just conceivable that a well-organised group of vandals could spawn 500 stubs within an hour or so without using bots to write most of them. 5,000? No way. ～J.K. 14:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How will you know what the millionth article is?[edit]

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)[reply]

  • For the 500,000th article, people made scripts to more easily determine that. As for articles being deleted, the 500,000th was basically chosen as the article to have that number without the number dropping back below 500,000 again. — 0918BRIAN • 2005-12-31 16:46

Idea for a new pool[edit]

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)[reply]

I've created the pool at Wikipedia:500th language pool.-gadfium 22:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It will just end up a mad rush....[edit]

...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)[reply]

  • Maybe AFD will finally implode under the pressure... sort of a "Millioth article present to the world". — 0918BRIAN • 2006-01-17 14:37
Lol :) Mushintalk 19:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Locked[edit]

I locked this article, since the pool closed a few days ago. Good luck everyone! :) Acetic Acid 10:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why should this be protected? Most other pools are not protected after being closed, and now the page can't be updated. --Constantine Evans 23:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]

So who wins?[edit]

The millionth article turned out to be Jordanhill railway station, but I can't see how any of the guesses are even close. How do we decide who wins? —Keenan Pepper 23:44, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Oven_Fresh wins. See Wikipedia:Millionth_topic_pool#Time. I think that guessing the corect day is the next-best thing.--M@rēino 23:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
He couldn't have seriously predicted the exact day, almost a year ago. -- user:zanimum
Oh, but that's the crazy thing, he really did! He hasn't even made an edit since August 17, 2005! I have unilaterally awarded him the zOMG Barnstar. --M@rēino 00:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Alas, had he entered the other competition, he would have won. But the subject of the millionth article is not related to today's date. On subject alone, I'd say February 2006 Scotland War of Independence by User:Mark J is closest. Eugene van der Pijll 00:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Or maybe Merovingian's Snakes on a Train? Eixo 00:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds the closest to the topic. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-2 03:41
Yeah, I think Snakes on a Train is the winner. -ikkyu2 (talk) 16:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, now Oven Fresh's guess is a day late (look at the source). TimBentley 02:59, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ummm... You do realize that Oven_Fresh's edit just contains the variables CURRENTDAY, CURRENTMONTH, etc... right? It changes every day. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-2 03:37

Thank you, Brian. I stand chastened. I will revise the barnstar, but not remove it -- anyone who P0WN'z me like that deserves the zOMG barnstar.--M@rēino 03:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit protecting[edit]

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)[reply]

Did I win?[edit]

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)[reply]

Let's vote[edit]

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)[reply]

  • Merovingian's Snakes on a Train. --Army1987 19:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merovingian's Snakes on a Train. C'mon guys - there's snakes on the motherfucking train! Eixo 23:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral. Does it really matter? Let both Mark J and Merovingian be winners. --TantalumTelluride 23:50, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • But there's snakes on the train dude! Eixo 23:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Are you suggesting that the Scottish people should not be free of English tyranny? --TantalumTelluride 02:53, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • I'm just saying that when you're on a train (or any other means of transportation) and there's snakes all over the place, you don't really give a damn about anything else. Eixo 07:39, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
          • That's true. Being on a train with snakes might even be frightening enough to distract a brave young Scottish revolutionary... unless he was the one to release the snakes as an act of terrorism against his English oppressors. --TantalumTelluride 20:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I suggest to create precise rules, to avoid this happens again on the 2×10^6th topic pool (eg "If one person guesses the correct title, he/she wins; if several people do, the one who posted the guess first wins; if nobody guesses the correct people, and somebody's guess has some words which appear in the correct title (other than articles or prepositions), then the person who has guessed most words wins, and in case of a tie etc.; if nobody guesses any word, then etc...")--Army1987 20:09, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • I suggest a prize for whoever understood anything of what went on above. Meanwhile there's snakes! On a fucking plane train! Eixo 01:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merovingian's Snakes on a Train. There's snakes. They're on a train. That's all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -ikkyu2 (talk) 21:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should there be a link to prophecies?[edit]

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)[reply]

Right now it says "November 2, 2015" it changes lol. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 19:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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