User:TimShell/ArticleCountStats

Article count statistics for the English Wikipedia:

Milestones and dates they were reached

• 700,000: 20050825
• 600,000: 20050619
• 500,000: 20050317
• 400,000: 20041120
• 300,000: 20040704
• 200,000: 20040201
• 100,000: 20030121

Time between milestones

• 0-100,000: 737 days
• 1-200,000: 376 days
• 2-300,000: 154 days
• 3-400,000: 140 days
• 4-500,000: 118 days
• 5-600,000: 95 days
• 6-700,000: 68 days

New articles per day pace

• 0-100,000: 135.69
• 1-200,000: 265.96
• 2-300,000: 649.35
• 3-400,000: 714.29
• 4-500,000: 847.46
• 5-600,000: 1052.63
• 6-700,000: 1470.59

New articles rate of growth

• 1-200,000: 1.96 times faster than previous period
• 2-300,000: 2.44 times faster than previous period
• 3-400,000: 1.10 times faster than previous period
• 4-500,000: 1.19 times faster than previous period
• 5-600,000: 1.24 times faster than previous period
• 6-700,000: 1.40 times faster than previous period

Projections

7-800,000

• 1.51 times faster than previous
• 2220 new articles per day
• 45 days until next 100,000 milestone, Oct. 9 2005

8-900,000

• 1.63 times faster than previous
• 3620 new articles per day
• 28 days until next 100,000 milestone, Nov. 5 2005

900,000-1,000,000

• 1.76 times faster than previous
• 6373 new articles per day
• 16 days until next 100,000, Nov. 21 2005

Doubling periods

• 1-200,000: 376 days
• 2-400,000: 294 days
• 4-800,000: 326 days (projected)

• (350,000 to 700,000 took 343 days)