Wikipedia:Hundred-million pool

This is 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 reaches 100,000,000 (one-hundred million). The person who comes closest to the actual date is the winner (of eternal fame). The current number of articles in the English Wikipedia is .

This pool will be closed for entries when the English Wikipedia article count reaches 80,000,000 (80%), so be sure to place your guess before then.

2040s

 * 1 January 2045 - At this stage bot written articles will be common (with or without human review + post-editing) and this is about the number of items in User:Emijrp/All_Human_Knowledge. Things will plateau soon after. Danielt998 (talk) 13:38, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

2101 or later

 * 13 August 2263 (by anomynous)
 * 16 June 2554 Thingofme (talk) 03:18, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 21 May 2305 Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 11:46, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * 14 March 2319. J I P  &#124; Talk 15:34, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * March 17, 3177, MainPeanut (talk) 19:17, 11 February 2021

Never

 * I don't think there are enough things in the world to write that many notable articles about. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Emijrp estimated around 100 million articles can be created right now Thingofme (talk) 03:18, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm betting on the A.I. Singularity happening before we get that far. Or maybe I'm just crazy. Anxietyprimev69 (talk) 23:00 PM, December 21 2021 (CST)