User:TimShell/ArticleCountStats

Article count statistics for the English Wikipedia:

Milestones and dates they were reached

 * 700,000: 20050825
 * 600,000: 20050619
 * 500,000: 20050317
 * 400,000: 20041120
 * 300,000: 20040704
 * 200,000: 20040201
 * 100,000: 20030121

Time between milestones

 * 0-100,000: 737 days
 * 1-200,000: 376 days
 * 2-300,000: 154 days
 * 3-400,000: 140 days
 * 4-500,000: 118 days
 * 5-600,000: 95 days
 * 6-700,000: 68 days

New articles per day pace

 * 0-100,000: 135.69
 * 1-200,000: 265.96
 * 2-300,000: 649.35
 * 3-400,000: 714.29
 * 4-500,000: 847.46
 * 5-600,000: 1052.63
 * 6-700,000: 1470.59

New articles rate of growth

 * 1-200,000: 1.96 times faster than previous period
 * 2-300,000: 2.44 times faster than previous period
 * 3-400,000: 1.10 times faster than previous period
 * 4-500,000: 1.19 times faster than previous period
 * 5-600,000: 1.24 times faster than previous period
 * 6-700,000: 1.40 times faster than previous period

7-800,000

 * 1.51 times faster than previous
 * 2220 new articles per day
 * 45 days until next 100,000 milestone, Oct. 9 2005

8-900,000

 * 1.63 times faster than previous
 * 3620 new articles per day
 * 28 days until next 100,000 milestone, Nov. 5 2005

900,000-1,000,000

 * 1.76 times faster than previous
 * 6373 new articles per day
 * 16 days until next 100,000, Nov. 21 2005

Doubling periods

 * 1-200,000: 376 days
 * 2-400,000: 294 days
 * 4-800,000: 326 days (projected)


 * (350,000 to 700,000 took 343 days)