Wikipedia:500th_language_pool

Wikipedia:500th language pool

Wikipedia:500th language pool


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 will be two winners: the one who comes closest to the correct date, and the one who first predicts 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.

More information Closed pools, Closed for voting ...

The current number of languages with active Wikipedia editions is 326. You can see an up to date figure on m:List of Wikipedias. 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.

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)

... 6021 years later ...

    • This makes me ROFL. I have no idea why. Double sharp (talk) 14:45, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
  • Adamic Morzenmebs (talk) 09:49, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

1902 AD

Yesterday

  • Well, may still get the language right :) GeeJo (t)(c)  20:22, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

1984

2006

2007

Really? Of all the weird languages Wikipedia has, how has no nerd decided "Yah lets do Ancient Egyptian!" ✶Mitch199811 01:47, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
  • 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/wiki/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)

2008

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)
Go Canada! *waves flag* I always knew we'd take over someday. CameoAppearance 10:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

2009

2009 1/2

  • 30 Feburary sdrawkcaB 71.192.130.225 08:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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 MESSEDOCKER (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)

2010

Lets just say that past experence suggests it may not stay that way.Geni 02:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

2011

  • 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 (talkcontribs) .
  • 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)
  • 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)

2012

  • Jan 2. American sign language, for the hearing impaired, yet illiterate. 65.121.141.34 (talk) 13:41, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
  • sunday. Klingonian. --Mihaic 12:40, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
    Are you aware that there was a Klingon Wikipedia for some years?-gadfium 03:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Before someone whines I'm just being silly. I'm not aiming to win, I'm aiming to make someone smile. SO SMILE DAMMIT!

2013

2014

Irrational Wikipediance! CameoAppearance 10:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

2015

2016

2017

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) September 27: Backus–Naur Form N/A0 02:34, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Ainu language--Seonookim (talk) 06:12, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

2017,5

2018

  • August 10: The Vogon language. We all want to hear what sounds like 'a man trying to gargle whilst fighting off a pack of wolves'. BlueRoll18 (talk) 05:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
  • December 31st Meta-language of some sort, designed by consensus by wikipedians. Riffraffselbow (talk) 06:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

2019

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)

Sometime in the 2020s

2020

2021

  • 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)

2022

  • Rapa Nui I'll be more specific - Easter Day 2022 on a server called Roggeveen ϢereSpielChequers 22:38, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Feb 17, 2022. FORTRAN. Googlemeister (talk) 15:23, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Mar 2, 2022. Yooper, the language spoken in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 01:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

2023

2030

2031

  • April 1, 2031. The AI Language "Goop_language", which is the one that comes right after AI invents a language to talk to each other; this version is encrypted and can't be read by humans @SmithAndTeam (talk) 21:27, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

2020-2040

In the Not-Too-Distant Future

2040

2041

I hope there isn't a What does the fox say language --Pie3141527182 10:11 19 November 2013 (EST)

2043

2048

2050

  • 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)

2052

  • April 25. Lorem ipsum. visual editor in every language was also replaced with lorem ipsum (IPv4 editor) 18:18 7 June 2023  Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.83.192 (talkcontribs) 7 June 2023 (UTC)

2065

Angel, spoken by angels and souls in Heaven-ha ha, as if!--Seonookim (talk) 06:14, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

2063

2073

2075

2078

  • 2 December: Azorean. Nelly Furtado's 100th birthday. Acetic Acid 20:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • 3 December: Yeni language "All that remains of the language is a song, known by speakers of Sandani (Kwanja)." It'll have an amazing recovery after the invention of time viewers.--T. Anthony 14:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

2084

2095

2096

Actually, Pokémon began in 1995. Phail..:Stirb Nicht Vor Mir:. 14:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

But it was released in 1996, wasn't it? [User:Williditor|Williditor] ([User talk:Williditor|Talk to me!]) 22:07, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

2101

  • 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)
  • September 2 - the Twitterese language. Spoken and typed by Twitterians all over the world. Also tweeted by small blue birds. ScienceFan66 | talk | 17:07, 11 January 2021 (UTC)



    • I think even JavaScript or Rust is more likely than LS; given it isn't more but a weakly ciphered English and we know about exactly 0 other (i. e. not human) sentient animal species. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 19:43, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
  • October 31 - Engrish .:Stirb Nicht Vor Mir:. 14:19, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

2112

2113

  • 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)
ummm.Geni 13:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, Quenya and Sindarin incubators seem to have been deleted now, and since they were incubators, I don't think they should count...but still, voting for Telerin (5 June), which will be created along with Quenya and Sindarin WP. Double sharp (talk) 14:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
  • 1 September. The 500th language. Well, all the terrorist attacks happen in September, so I'm saying that the 500th language is my birthday!
  • December 18. North Korean. By this point, North Korean has developed into its own language after years of separation from Korean, and a Wikipedia is created for it. --Will2022 (talk 12:21, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

2154

2222

Omicronian - When World War IV breaks out ۩ Dracion ۩ Talk 10:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

2300

  • November 7 Alienese, in honor of Futurama. Nillanilla3ee (talk) 02:00, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

July 13, 2380. It will be Klingon. 65.167.146.130 (talk) 15:54, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

2525

If man is still alive. – The Grid (talk) 20:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

2711

  • STPR (Supertext Protocol Robotese)

-- Downgrader  101010  23:18, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

4149

  • December 15 Language of the Mute Man; if i win can someone notify me by digging me out of my grave an telling me? --Bad Speler 01:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

5330

6666

10001

  • 10 October. And it will be binary. 10/10/10001. - Razer64 00:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Um, what language written in binary? —Keenan Pepper 00:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
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)
Why is "worldspeak" in English, then?

10191

  • 1 January - Galach. Obviously. Paulb42 01:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
  • 14 october - Ferret-Badger. We should have ferret-badgers using wikipedia by then.

12346

  • February 30 1gp4y 471n14y 0r53m4y 0d3c4y 3375p33k14y (also known as pig latin morse code leet on my first birthday). --Ravi12346 01:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I would translate that into Morse code, but I'm not quite that bored.
      • .---- --. .--. ....- -.-- / ....- --... .---- -. .---- ....- -.-- / ----- .-. ..... ...-- -- ....- -.-- / ----- -.. ...-- -.-. ....- -.-- / ...-- ...-- --... ..... .--. ...-- ...-- -.- .---- ....- -.-- (I am that bored.) 207.145.133.34 14:52, 26 April 2006 (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)

That's not morse code. --Army1987 15:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

21984

82930 and a bit

200,000

  • October 22 - Martian.--Keycard (talk) 09:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

500,000

  • 1 January - Whale - surely we must be able to speak to whales by then, and don't these giants of the deep ocean depths deserve their own Wikipedia? Andrew 16:41, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

802,701

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)
  • 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)

1,234,567,789

  • 32nd Tridecember. Southern Pariapatatian, from City Southern Pariapatatia, State ΛΞ, Country Eka-Greekioniese, Planet Sphxzvewdrster Glasdfqwwrestyujkakahfurmde, Solar System Holomonobosipsippararp, Galaxy Inmemoryofprofessorastatauliandagaragaliatheinventorofthemachinethatcanturnanythingintoanything, Universe Calixo-9900133143, Universe system Pluon-222, Mother universe Suttttttte, Dimension 5.
    • Well, my location is (as of 2018) City Frisco, State Texas, Country United States of America, Planet Earth, Solar System ???, Galaxy Milky Way, Universe ???, Universe system ???, Mother universe ???, Dimension ???. Could you please fill in the blanks? 2605:6000:8D47:5800:E9C7:1828:D49B:CAB8 (talk) 15:03, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
      • You are currently in system Sol, Universe 7 (though you encroach on Universe 6 at some times, per the Mandela Effect). You are operating in 4 dimensions. @SmithAndTeam (talk) 21:33, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

111,000,000,001 (Eleventy-one billion one)

  • December 28 Penguin; Yes, I expect Penguin to be the 500th language. The 499th will be giraffe. -- Masterzora 03:41, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Elvish SujinYH 04:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

  • The 500th language Wikipedia I think will be Jimbo Wales. Davnel03 19:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
    • 10 septillion? isn't the universe gonna explode by then? 71.193.65.110 20:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
    • Welsh already exists as cy:. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 13:18, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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. --81.226.110.29 16:26, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Smarch 13 - American English - BeL1EveR 18:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

2^74,207,281-1

This would be a Prime candidate for 500 languages, the 500th of which would be Simlish (220.239.253.185 (talk) 10:38, 18 April 2016 (UTC))

  • Woah, what number is that?

Never

  • Never, because the world will end in 2012! 24.14.73.183 (talk) 22:31, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
  • Never, as language will become more homogenized, and therefore there will be fewer and fewer languages that have a use for Wikipedia.  Stan  3  18:35, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
  • No way there may be a 400th or even 500th language, unless more languages are discovered. Look, the figure is still below 300. 2679D (talk) 03:34, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Never. By langugage 499, to gain God's forgiveness, we will all speak Tibetian monk languages. They communicate only with hand signals. This is ridiculously hard to make a Wikipedia out of, and anyway Tibetian monasteries have no WiFi. TomBarker23 (talk) 21:43, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Unknown date

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Notes

  1. Votes for Borean languages and Proto-Indo-European language are counted as contributing to the tally of Proto-World language
  2. Where a vote is for a specific language expressed with a particular twist, such as a leet version of pig latin expressed in morse code, I've interpreted it simply as a vote for the language rather than the expression; in this case pig latin. This interpretation is likely to be controversial and other interpretations will change the order of most commonly predicted languages shown above. A new pool will open shortly to predict when someone will take me to Arbcom over this.
  3. Klingon is also one of the most commonly predicted languages, but being a language which already has had a Wikipedia edition disqualifies it from that list

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