Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-27/Millionth article preparations

Are any statistics being done on the rate of article creation - ie are more being created this week in the hope of being the millionth article creator. (The equivalent of more people buying lottery tickets on a rollover draw.)

Jackiespeel 17:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The final number

I'm wondering at what number of articles Wikipedia will "level out". I mean, we can't practically grow to infinity, and sometime the rate of growth has to slow down. What do others think? Karol 09:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Our growth so far hasn't been linear, but exponential, so it will have to peak at some point. On that note, Jimmy said to the National Post recently that Mitch Kapor thinks 50 million is plausible. -- user:zanimum

In that case makes me wonder why he have AFD.

I have to confess that it would amuse me somewhat if the millionth article is (was? it's the 4th now) a redirect :) --kingboyk 00:47, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can't be done by definition. Redirects are excluded from article counts, else this would have happened long ago- we've got ~3.5 million articles once redirects and other such are factored in. --maru (talk) contribs 04:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]