Wikipedia:Pools

The following pools have been created in which people make guesses about various future milestones for Wikipedia. For reference, the current number of articles in the English Wikipedia is {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}.

Number of articles

Wikipedia:Half-million pool (Closed, reached on March 17, 2005 at 20:54:46 UTC)
Wikipedia:666,666th pool (Closed, reached on August 4, 2005)
Wikipedia:Million pool (Closed, reached on March 1, 2006 at 23:09 UTC)
Wikipedia:Two-million pool (Closed, reached on September 9, 2007)
(There is no 3M pool, because the pools were originally planned to include only powers of 10 times 1, 2, or 5. The change arose when it turned out that Wikipedia's growth rate changed from exponential to linear. It was reached on August 17, 2009)
Wikipedia:Four-million pool (Closed, reached on July 13, 2012)
Wikipedia:Five-million pool (1) (Closed, reached on November 1, 2015)
Wikipedia:Five-million pool (2) (Closed, reached on November 1, 2015)
Wikipedia:Six-million pool (Closed, reached on January 23, 2020)
Wikipedia:6,666,666th pool (Closed, reached on June 9, 2023)
Wikipedia:Seven-million pool (Closed for voting at reaching 5.6M)
Wikipedia:7,500,000th pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Eight-million pool (Closed for voting at reaching 6.4M)
Wikipedia:Nine-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Ten-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Eleven-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Twelve-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Thirteen-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Fifteen-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Twenty-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Fifty-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Hundred-million pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Billion pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Eleventy-billion pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Trillion pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Quadrillion pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Quintillion pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Sextillion pool (Open for voting)

Number of Featured Articles

Wikipedia:Five thousandth FA (Closed, reached on April 16, 2017)
Wikipedia:Five thousandth FA (2) (Closed, reached on April 16, 2017)
Wikipedia:Ten thousandth FA (Open for voting)

Topics

Wikipedia:Millionth topic pool (Closed, occasion already passed)
Wikipedia:Two-millionth topic pool (Closed, reached on September 9, 2007)
Wikipedia:Three-millionth topic pool (Closed, reached on August 17, 2009 at 04:04 UTC)
Wikipedia:Five-millionth topic pool (Closed, reached on November 1, 2015)
Wikipedia:Six-millionth topic pool (Closed, reached on January 23, 2020)
Wikipedia:Seven-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Eight-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Nine-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Ten-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Eleven-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Twelve-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Thirteen-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Fifteen-millionth topic pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Last topic pool (Open for voting)

Languages

Wikipedia:500th language pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:1000th wiki pool (Closed, reached on February 27, 2023 at 19:34 UTC)
Wikipedia:2000th wiki pool (Open for voting)

Edits

Wikipedia:300-million edits pool (Closed, reached on July 3, 2009 at 05:14 UTC)
Wikipedia:Billionth edit pool (Closed, reached on January 13, 2021 at 01:03 UTC)
Wikipedia:1.5-billionth edit pool (Open for voting)
Wikipedia:Two-billionth edit pool (Open for voting)

Wikipedia:Last edit pool (Open for voting)