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This is a pool for guessing when the 500th language Wikipedia will be created, and what that language will be. This is not a serious pool. List of Wikipedias will be used to determine the winners. There are two winners: the one who comes closest to the correct date, and the one who first predicted the correct language. The winners will be entitled to contribute mightily to the new edition. Losers are expected to contribute even more to that edition.
The current number of languages with Wikipedia editions is 264. The pool will close when the number exceeds 400.
Add subheadings below as necessary. You are not prevented from choosing languages that others have already chosen. You may comment on predictions so long as the comment is distinct from the prediction.
You may make up to 3 predictions, but each must concern a different language.
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Contents
- 1 4004 BC
- 2 Yesterday
- 3 2006
- 4 2007
- 5 2008
- 6 2009
- 7 2009 1/2
- 8 Sometime in the 2010s
- 9 2010
- 10 2011
- 11 2012
- 12 2013
- 13 2014
- 14 2016
- 15 2017
- 16 2018
- 17 2019
- 18 2020
- 19 2021
- 20 2020-2040
- 21 In the Not-To-Distant Future
- 22 2040
- 23 2050
- 24 2063
- 25 2073
- 26 2078
- 27 2084
- 28 2095
- 29 2096
- 30 2101
- 31 2016
- 32 2112
- 33 2113
- 34 2222
- 35 2300
- 36 4149
- 37 5330
- 38 10001
- 39 10191
- 40 12346
- 41 21984
- 42 200,000
- 43 500,000
- 44 971,496
- 45 111,000,000,001 (Eleventy-one billion one)
- 46 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
- 47 292,277,026,596
- 48 Records
- 49 Notes
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[edit] 4004 BC
- Cave person. - Me Urk! Me invent chisel! Me create Wikipedia stone everyone in tribe can edit! --carlb (talk) 18:19, 14 February 4008 BC (UTC)
[edit] Yesterday
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- 1 April. Pig Latin. Durova 05:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- 19 May. My birthday. SuperLanguage. A Combination of all languages. --Kitia 21:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- 5 July. Egyptian, and some idiot (most likely Node ue) will start this again - Kookykman|(t)e
- 15 July. Simple Chinese. Not simplified Chinese, but Simple Chinese (the equivalent of Simple English). -!!!!
- 23 July. <B>Wikipedia will be written in <A Herf=http://en.wikipedia.org/description/HTML>HTML</A></B> Samsoncity 15:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- 8 November. Southwestern Walloon. Complaints that the Wallonian Wikipedia is dominated by Eastern Walloons will lead to a separate Western Walloon Wikipedia, but infighting amongst the Western Walloons will prevent the Western Walloon Wikipedia from getting going. The fight will be resolved by starting the Southwest Walloon Wikipedia. Eventually the trouble will be traced to a Fleming provocateur, and all will concede that no one speaks Walloon anymore any way.— Randall Bart 18:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- 30 December. Marain.-gadfium 22:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- 31 December. Gibberish. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 18:22, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- I'd like to see the criteria for speedy deletion for that version!-gadfium 23:46, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- If it makes sense, it's deleted. Easy! Nifboy 05:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
- Catfish jokecake. --Daniel11 17:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- 29 December. American Sign Language. COA 06:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
- 31 December. Romany.--Pharos 06:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- A Romany edition of Wikipedia was started shortly after this vote was made.-gadfium 08:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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- That's not a language. —Keenan Pepper 16:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Good point. I was tired last night; I withdraw that vote! :D ~Mr Inky ·
(T @ C) 17:12, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- 18 January PC 70.184.32.37 23:04, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- 12 February - Morse Code. --Mark J 21:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
- 29 February. Leet. --TantalumTelluride 23:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- March 7. Internet slang. Lol. Teh tweedler's sig: --Gray Porpoise 12:28, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
- 1 April. Martian. --FreakyFlyBry 05:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- 23 May. FДЦX CЧЯILLIC --Mkill 18:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- 1 June. American Sign Language.-gadfium 22:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- 6 June. Pennsylvanian German.--Shibo77 14:47, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- See pdc:.-gadfium 19:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
- 4 July - American English. Unaware of the fact that the English language version has already been almost entirely bastardised into this lower dialect, some extreme American nationalists (amongst them Jay Leno) start up a flagship project on Independence Day. It is invaded the next day - by Canada.
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- Go Canada! *waves flag* I always knew we'd take over someday. CameoAppearance 10:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
- 1 August - Veps language Kneiphof 16:22, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
- 5 August - Māori --HamedogTalk|@ 11:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- See mi:, with nearly 6,400 articles and counting. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- 2 September - Tsakonian, unless Cypriot has been deleted and is recreated after. Argyriou 16:22, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- 12 August - Braille -- By then, maybe computer monitors will have self-adjusting textures. That would be cool. Steveo2 11:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
- 9 September The language will be Ga. Durova 05:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- 24 September Coptic Lesgles (talk) 23:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- 7 October Cockney - CheekyMonkey 13:45, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- 1 November. Judeo-Arabic.--Pharos 06:24, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- 1 December. Anal language -- bogdan 21:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- 1 December. Zuni--T. Anthony 13:50, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 January. Gheg Albanian.--Pharos 06:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- 10 January. Bamum language.--T. Anthony 13:55, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- 15 January. Morse Code. --TantalumTelluride 23:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- 20 January. Bushspeak. In honor of the inauguration of our next president. --Fbv65edel (discuss | contribs) 02:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- March 3, my 18th Sceptre (Talk) 02:24, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- April 1, of course, as an April Fools joke. I suspect it will be a Micronesian language, such as Gilbertese of the island Kiribati, which is believed to have 100,000 speakers. YechielMan 00:29, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- April 23, Mentalese, just a thought. ---Sluzzelin 14:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- 12 June - Northern California English, at hella.wikipedia.org. szyslak (t, c, e) 04:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- June 20. International maritime signal flags. --Gray Porpoise 12:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
- 12 July -- Volapük --Cyde Weys 05:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- See the Volapük version of Wikipedia, with 46 articles and counting.-gadfium 08:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- 24 September Egyptian.Lesgles (talk) 21:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
- 10 November C++ Niffweed17, Destroyer of Chickens 20:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
- 16 November lolcat aka kitty pidgin – b_jonas 15:12, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
- 25 November Binary Anonymous 20:41, 18 Sept 2006 (UTC)
- 26 November Baby gah gah Anonymous 20:41, 18 Sept 2006 (UTC)
- 26 November Imported appliance operation manual Anonymous 20:41, 18 Sept 2006 (UTC)
- Twenny-ay u disembah Rudeboy (ry:Rou-boi). This version will be created when the rudeboys realise they have mugged everything that exists. 86.135.151.248 22:39, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 2009 1/2
[edit] Sometime in the 2010s
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**The first article will be taken from here. - Ghelaetalkcontribs 10:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- Bushic - After people miss President Bush (because of President Rumsfeld), they'll make a whole language of Bushisms. This will catch on, especially in the South, and Wikipedia starts up bush.wikipedia.org. Fifty years later, a Democratic president will get elected and ban Bushic. —THIS IS MESSED
OCKER (TALK) 21:27, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
User:70.184.32.37Tie between everything on this page, because everyone wants to win, and on Deceber 29, when the 499th is made, everyone will simultaneously create theirs at the same picosecond.
- December 29: Complex English, which is the opposite of Simple English. 71.193.65.110 (talk) 18:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Lets just say that past experence suggests it may not stay that way.Geni 02:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Due to continental drift, the International Date Line has been moved, making the day undiscernable. The language, of course will be txt. Its takng ova! THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 08:53, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- 30 June Savonian, dialect of Finnish. --junafani 11:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 July. Chanel 9 language. Bono estente! Benvenido a Wikipedia, encyclopedio libro, editos tutto persone, pethethethe, hethethethe. Sminki pinki articulos 500'000. Falia hella, falia hella, falia helle. Chris Waddle. JIP | Talk 21:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- 2 July. Tamasheq Abu Amaal 06:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- July 23. Cherokee. Trvsdrlng (talk) 04:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
- See chr:.-gadfium 08:31, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
- 5 September. Jeju language. --Iceager 14:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- 24 February. Spanglish--Gamingboy 17:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Mine. If you want a sample, here it is: Hikuteft gyjeiv iejmne. You may guess what it means.64.131.43.6 00:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- 18 April. Bork bork bork!. --DanielHawking, 16:38 PST 30 April 2006
- Dec. 25. Simplified Igbo. christmas is cool. apparentely igbo is a language so why not make it simplified?--Durean 7:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Q3 - Meta language or some kind of intermediate language between humans and machine --Zayani 21:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Valley Girl: "Like, like totally duh. Totally. Duh totally." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MessedRocker (talk • contribs) .
- 32 Burberry - Chav, innit. 81.104.165.184 22:02, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
- Summer - Tlingit language (tli:) Realistically though, I doubt WP will grow to 500 languages, even by 2011. Hangfromthefloor 11:39, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- Old High German on March 15th, 2011--Qazox (talk) 05:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Esperanto Sign Language on March 16, 2011--Qazox (talk) 05:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Gibberish on April 1st, 2011 --Qazox (talk) 05:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- November 7, 2011: Ngalakan. I'm sure there'll be a Wikipedia in an Australian language eventually. So I picked one at random. Aridd (talk) 14:29, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
- January 10, Sindarin. JoshuaZ 02:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- March 3, Yucatec Maya language after people realize that the world hasn't ended yet. Also given appropriate time for the requisite bureaucracy. --TatharNuar (talk) 12:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- 26 July, Proto-Indo-European. —Keenan Pepper 07:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- September 10 - Weasel words. Example: "Some think George W. Bush is the greatest President ever. Many others, however, point out he is, in fact, the worst." szyslak (t, c, e) 12:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- 12 September, Elvish, like in LOTR. Some nerd will be bored someday and convert the entire Wikipedia into Elvish.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Spider1224 (talk • contribs)
- 21 December,
pig Latin. --Army1987 14:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC) Too easy. BG-13Enl vtcnl ngvaYnl (ROT-13 pig Latin). --Army1987 20:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- 31 December, Jimbo Wales' idiolect. He'll be tired of having to write in a standard language and will start writing however he thinks, in a thing similar to a stream of consciousness.--Army1987 15:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
- 4 October (my 27th birthday,) Borean. Grandmasterka 03:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- June 1, Bee Dance Language, used to signal where pollen is and stuff. I swear... those guys can tell more than we think. Mikeguy 03:43, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Irrational Wikipediance! CameoAppearance 10:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Early March: The language spoken by the Korowai tribe. It's in the Awyu-Dumut family (southeastern Papua) and is part of the Trans-New Guinea phylum. Pengo 12:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
The 499th language will be Early Modern English, created at precisely 0000 hours on December 25. Acs4b T C U 11:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- Pig Latin 71.192.130.225 08:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
- February 20, 2020. Latin, or is that already made? jj137Talk 03:07, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, see la:.-gadfium 08:45, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- October 4, 2020, Chinese/Japenese, China and Japan will form a republic known as Chapan, and the language will be Chinese/Japanese, a crossover of Chinese and Japanese. 71.193.65.110 20:09, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
- July 2020 Ch'ol. Amaryllis25 "Talk to me" 15:18, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- In the second half - Sanomic (the language of the Belgian Eurovision entry in 2003) DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) (talk) 09:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- July 20: Saxophonists' "reed-speak".--Lkjhgfdsa 21:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- September 13. Linovage. A quiet office worker will create this language, after learning all other languages from reading their respective Wikipedias. This amalgamation of every language will be called "Linovage". It will prove very easy to learn and popular, and all inhabitants of the world will speak it by 2208. All other languages but one will then be deleted from Wikipedia. The one other language that will remain will be Klingon, as all the Star Trek fans refuse to let it be deleted. EvilAsh1313 17:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- 8 October:
Dolphin. Eeek squeeek ee'eeeek ack eeeekack okkkkkkk'k. (A random day for a random language.) --Fbv65edel (discuss | contribs) 02:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- October 20:
Some strange, unnamed language from an intelligent civilization who is spotted by the Terrestrial Planet Finder. --Gray Porpoise 12:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
- September 9: Anglo-Saxon Runes (Just english, but written with Anglo Saxon Runes. Not drawing it; see Jimbo's page for what it looks like...) PikaPikaPikachu 00:25, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 2020-2040
- March 14, 2037: Ameri-Canadian; The USA and Canada will merge together to make a country called Ameri-Canadia, resulting in American English and Canadian French merging together. iXela). 02:37, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
- What will happen to Canadian English? I suppose eh will have to be rendered é. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 09:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- June 20, 2031: Russian Reversal. In Soviet Russia, wiki edits YOU!! 137.205.93.176 (talk) 18:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
- February 27, 2038: Dolphin language. Aridd (talk) 14:23, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] In the Not-To-Distant Future
- 30 June. English. After an overdose of edit wars and various cruft, a request on meta for the English Wikipedia to be deleted received massive support. Because of divergent licensing, articles could no longer be imported from e.g. the Simple Wikipedia or the MegaTannica, thus the "original" Wikipedia was restarted from scratch three months later, with an elaborate article about The weather in London written by Jimbina Wales-Gates II. >Radiant< 12:19, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
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- No, definately not. See what links to The weather in London. That's a very special page. You need to be a very long-standing Wikipedian to get the joke at first sight.-gadfium 07:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- Eptembersay irstfay. Igpay atinlay. -- Ingkay ofay Eartshay | (alktay) 18:26, Ebruaryfay ifthfay, 2006 (UTC)
- Braille. SujinYH 03:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- 31 December Newspeak- By a date as early as 2050, Oldspeak will have been completely forgotten. (By the way, I didn't notice the other guess for Newpeak when the one below was made. Am I allowed to guess the same thing, so long as it's for a different date. I mean, my guess for the date was a subtle reference to 1984! That makes it better, right? Does it matter? Will I ever get a job?) Steveo2 11:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Actually, Pokémon began in 1995. Phail..:Stirb Nicht Vor Mir:. 14:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
- January 1 - 13375p33k - In 2101 war was beginning, so CATS took over all base and made 13375p33k Earth's official language. He also forced a group of haxx0r gorillas to make a 13375p33k Wikipedia and delete all 499 other Wikipedias. Then, he made a gold statue of himself and ruled t3h n3w w0r1d!!!!!!111onehundredandeleven1!111!!!shift+1shift+1!!!1!11 --81.226.110.29 17:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
- 5 June. Quenya. That is the day after my 126th birthday. I can be pretty sure I'll be dead by then, since I will do anything possible to avoid this happens when I'm alive, given my hate for LotR... --Army1987 14:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
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- ummm.Geni 13:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Omicronian - When World War IV breaks out ۩ Dracion ۩ Talk 10:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Um, what language written in binary? —Keenan Pepper 00:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
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- By that point, sentient computers will have created their own language, as part of their plot to overthrow mankind. So.... it will be that language. Written in binary. - Razer64 19:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- Worldspeak; a combination of all the world's languages iXela). 02:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
- Shouldn't ROT47 be in there too? Just wondered. ~ Ghelaetalkcontribs 15:12, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- `8AcJ cf`?`cJ _Cdb>cJ _5b4cJ bbfdAbb<`cJ (Translated into ROT47 for you.)
- Then you have to translate it into binary and ROT-2 it. ~ Ghelæ talkcontribs 07:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
207.145.133.34 14:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
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- That's not morse code. --Army1987 15:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 200,000
[edit] 500,000
[edit] 971,496
- March 28 - Proto-World. Upon the advent of safe, reliable time travel in the year 754,280, linguists begin documenting the language of every human group that ever existed. Finally, after more than 200,000 years of hard work, a reliable reconstruction of Proto-World with a strong post-post-post-post-Chomskyan theoretical basis emerges. Proto-World turns out to be exactly the same as the universal language of all humankind, which had emerged around 400,000 as all languages merged, albeit with slight dialectical differences due to historical English, Chinese and Spanish substrata. (All evidence of substrata had disappeared by the mid-971,000s.) To an American English speaker from about 2006, Proto-World sounds like a cross between the Basque, Ainu and Zuni languages. szyslak (t, c, e) 22:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Oh, and all the other 499 languages are related to Star Trek, Middle-earth and other fictional universes, including 246 dialects of Klingon alone. Though all natural languages have been gone for millenia (en: was deleted about 26,321), the fans refuse to give the conlang Wikipedias up. szyslak (t, c, e) 23:12, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 111,000,000,001 (Eleventy-one billion one)
[edit] 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
[edit] 292,277,026,596
- December 4 - BFGHLNSrfseo@eWe146wq. The year 292,277,026,596 problem will cause Wikipedia's servers to go absolutely mad and create 6923455621 junk Wikipedias, with BFGHLNSrfseo@eWe146wq being the 500th. --
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