Wikipedia talk:Milestone statistics

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March 29th demotions

On 29 March 2015, all Wikipedias (and most other individual-langauge Wikimedia content wikis) had their on-wiki article counts recalculated. Many of them saw significant article-count changes (some decreasing as much as 50% or 60%). I have demoted the relevant Wikipedias in this table using the date 29 March 2015. See m:Talk:Wikimedia News#March 29th demotions for my reasoning (and m:Wikimedia News#March 2015 for more information). - dcljr (talk) 02:11, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Future milestones

The next milestone is ten million articles. It looks to be about three to five years away. I can live with that. But after that, the next milestones are twenty and fifty million. Beyond that, the milestones start becoming decades, if not centuries, apart. Are we supposed to continue the logarithmic scale used so far here that far or can we find an easier solution? Personally, I'm not sure I'll live long enough for Wikipedia to see fifty million. JIP | Talk 20:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Easier solution to what? Just because certain wikis will spend more time at certain levels, is that a problem in need of a solution? (I don't think so.) I think a more relevant issue would be if wikis are "piling up" at the higher milestone levels. If, say, 15 wikis all reach 5M articles before any of them reach 10M, that may be a "problem" worth solving. But I don't think that's gonna happen. The log-like scale seems to be working pretty well to keep the wikis nicely distributed across the different levels. - dcljr (talk) 05:33, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm certainly watching discussion. Ema--or (talk) 23:30, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Hundred thousand milestones

I've asked a question over at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_milestones#Working_out_the_hundred_thousand_milestones Can anyone help? Thanks. Greenshed (talk) 01:01, 3 November 2015 (UTC)