Wikipedia:300-million edits pool

This was a pool for predicting the date at which this revision becomes valid (meaning that the 300,000,000th edit has been made.) The person who came closest to the actual date became the winner (of eternal fame). The current number of edits in the English Wikipedia is .

This pool opened on February 27, 2009, with 288,363,830 edits at the time. The pool closed on June 7th, 2009 at 16:42, when the number of edits reached 295,000,000.

'''This pool is now closed. Please do not add votes!'''

2009

 * April 19 - Chenzw    Talk   04:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * April 25 -- not a wild guess; I thought about this for quite some time. Soap Talk/Contributions 22:54, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * May 1, 2009. VX! talk 23:32, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * June 5 2009, according to my linear projection (based on ACTUAL diff numbers, as in, around 274,660,000 now, rather than 289,550,000). --January First-of-May (for fans of Star Trek here), March 3, 2008 13:43 local (10:43 UTC)
 * June 26th Another wild guess. 67.177.43.241 (talk) 06:14, 27 February 2009 (UTC) Winner!
 * September 25 - Just a wild guess.--Res2216firestar 06:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm going with October 20, at a random guess. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  05:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 23 August --TheJosh (talk) 02:58, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 5 November, the day to remember. Ottava Rima (talk) 00:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * After careful thought, 9 November. User:MrRadioGuy What's that?/What I Do/Feed My Box 23:26, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * December 5 FTW! — Ed 17  (Talk /  Contribs)  05:46, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

2024-2034

 * January 2, 2034, at 05:06 PM. X clamation point  06:12, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Never

 * Immediately after the 299,999,999 edit; the Wikimedia servers will all undergo a cataclysmic crash that will erase all edit/history records for eternity, effectively guaranteeing that Wikipedia will never gain more than one edit. ;) (see actual answer above) VX! talk 23:25, 27 February 2009 (UTC)