Wikipedia:Four-million pool

This was 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 would reach 4,000,000 (four million). And Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 on Friday, July 13, 2012. This pool opened on September 26, 2005, about when the 745,000th article was created. This pool was closed for entries when the English Wikipedia article count reached 3,200,000 in February 2010. WereSpielChequers came closest to the actual date, July 13th, 2012, and became the winner (of eternal fame). The correct date was July 13th, 2012. The current number of articles in the English Wikipedia is 6,826,104.

This pool is closed. 4M reached on 2012 July 13. Any further votes will be reverted.

2010

• May 16 --Yowuza yadderhouse |meh 13:57, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
• July 12 Microchip08 01:08, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• August 21 -- WadeSimMiser (talk) 21:54, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
• October 1 -- Go^LeafsGo 02:19, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
• November 1 - seems likely it'll be by the end of the year, anyhow --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

2011

• February 14, 2011 76.229.216.131 (talk)
• April 1, 2011 Kerdek (Tell me if I screw up) 20:42, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
• September 26, 2011 Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:31, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
• November 30 2011 -38.116.200.85temp (talk) 22:24, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

2012

• February 1, HenkvD (talk) 17:58, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• April 5, Fineplum 14:01, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• May 12 (Saturday) – Waltham, The Duke of 13:52, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

• June 1, ϢereSpielChequers 15:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC) <-- the winner

• December 23 --A More Perfect Onion (talk) 17:07, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

2015

• July 1. Growth statistics look grim, so maybe the planets will align for a miracle. ——Rich jj (talk) 22:13, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

See also

• Wikipedia:Thanks for 4 million articles, including notice of the 4 millionth article and its creator.