User talk:JDIAZ001

JohnCD (talk) 21:05, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:JDIAZ001/The New Message from God
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billions
Hello JDIAZ, noticed one of your contributions over here -- User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_69 -- and had a question for you.

Prior to 2010 the page said 'countless' which you argued should be changed to something more specific, since we had counts. Barek was worried it would look like McD's and their old hamburger-counting-gimmick, but eventually the phrase was changed to millions. Recent data suggests that wikipedia is reaching about half a billion people every month.

So, if you're still interested in this topic, I was wondering when you thought we ought to change the millions to billions.

One way to think about it, is that once we hit a steady count of a billion uniques per month, we can be pretty sure that at least two billion *total* people have used wikipedia once or twice in their lives. (We could always say "over a billion" but methinks that is too wordy.)

Alternatively, if we want to wait some additional years, it seems realistic to think that the 500m uniques per month we have now will grow to 1000m uniques per month, and then keep on growing to 2000m uniques per month, at which point we can *definitely* say the word "billions" with extremely conservative statistics fully on our side. Even if the counter is a rough estimate, the historical data easily overrides any inaccuracies.

When should we say billions, instead of millions? Thanks for improving wikipedia. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 12:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)