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    When will the English Wikipedia have 10 million articles?

    Created by Matthew_Barnett on {{qctrl.question.created_time | dateStr}}.
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    The English Wikipedia was launched in 2001 and now has approximately 6 million articles at the time of writing this question.

    This question resolves on the date during which the 10 millionth Wikipedia article is created, according to official internal statistics from Wikipedia, such as this link.

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