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.
The current number of languages with active Wikipedia editions is 348. 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.
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)
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.
Go Canada! *waves flag* I always knew we'd take over someday. CameoAppearance 10:05, 7 June 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)
Twenny-ay u disembahRudeboy(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)
2009 1/2
30 Feburary sdrawkcaB 71.192.130.225 08:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
**The first article will be taken from here. - Ghelaetalkcontribs 10:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
16 November, 2017 / 2018. Changing vote to Martian (Cydonian Dialect). (that is allowed, right?) - Ghelaetalkcontribs 17:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
sometime within in this decade. Ubbi-Dubbi. --G VOLTT 02:55, 29 March 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
March 16: Engrish. Pleased to be welcome Wikipedia, the unrestrained encyclopedia. Do not taunt Happy Fun Wiki. Confusing Manifestation 11:25, 28 February 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)
September 27: Backus–Naur FormN/A0 02:34, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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 31, about 9 seconds before New Year's Day: Malaysian English. If Malaysia is going to become a developed country by 2020, a language (or dialect, in this case) that symbolises Malaysia must be created prior to that event. However, it was proposed for deletion 8 weeks later as it was a bit too unpopular. Fortunately, it was retained because they were unable to reach a consensus.
The 499th language will be Early Modern English, created at precisely 0000 hours on December 25. Acs4bTCU 11:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
Quenya I will create this for you guys if you want. We just need to convince Unicode to make quenyan characters... Will2022 (talk 14:54, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Dothraki or High Valyrian. I predict sometime from 2024 to 2028. By then the two languages will be accepted into the mainstream, like Klingon is.TNats3 05:46, 20 August 2017 (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)
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)
Vote changed once more to Code 128. Code 128 Wikipedia will be used to scan information into robots. --Gray Porpoise 19:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Did I say Code 128? Now I made up my mind on Karel programming language written in 3-of-9 Barcode. Same idea: A Wikipedia for robots to scan. --Gray Porpoise 00:28, 26 September 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 RoggeveenϢereSpielChequers 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)
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)
April 8, 2029, in Kuteb. --Alesjif (talk) 02:12, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Mork!!!! (There's a fad of very surreal eBay auctions where the only word is "mork" repeated tons of times.) —MORK MORK MORKMOKER(MORK) 02:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
Already exists since 2001. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 13:13, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
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)
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 (talk • contribs) 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
April 5. Quite logically, it will have to be the Vulcan language. Wak wi-at wik bot, oot-lan?--Tim Thomason 09:30, 2 March 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)
But it was released in 1996, wasn't it? 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)
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 (as of 2021). Alfa-ketosav (talk) 19:43, 10 January 2021 (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)
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)
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)
On Yellowday, Ophiuchus 24, 933 A.U. (Wednesday, October 31, 2903 A.D.), the League of Wikipedians added Millenium English, the form of English spoken around the start of the 3rd millenium, as the 500th Wikipedia language. It wasn't built up from scratch, it was merely copied from the Modern English Wikipedia as it existed on January 1, 2200, right before major changes to its lexicon and syntax started to take hold. By the time the Millenium English Wikipedia was created, the Modern English alphabet had 30 total letters, with 3 new additions, 2 reintroduced from Old English, and 1 lost since 2026. my rilly cool userpage
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
August 15, 23:48 UTC - HutteseBeL1EveR 18:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
June 9, but countries other than the US won't be able to access the subdomain until September 6 due to inexplicable server-side errors: Sexual grunts will have formed into their own language by this point in time, and this will be brought to Wikipdia at 69.wikipedia.org Schiffy (Speak to me|What I've done) 15:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
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.
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
The predictions of H.G. Wells will come true as the Morlocks take over Wikipedia. 76.190.213.236 (talk) 21:19, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Hello from 2022. It didn't happen, and that movie ended up being a load of horse crap. Soz. M@R10FYREFLOWER
Never, as language will become more homogenized, and therefore there will be fewer and fewer languages that have a use for Wikipedia. Stan3 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)
Never. I calculated it. Muirjohnnyes (talk) 17:12, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Never, because at that point we'll all have a universal language. 97104, not 97100! (t•c•r•l) 18:13, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Thanks for the update. The ASL Wikipedia is still unlikely for the 500th language. Probably more like 295. Slevinski (talk) 19:45, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
The most successful languages are Cherokee, Klingon, Latin, Māori, Pennsylvania German and Volapuk, which managed to have Wikipedia versions before they were nominated. Elvish had an incubator at the time of its nomination. I'm not counting Moldovan and English as it appears the nominators of these languages were well aware of the existing Wikipedias at the time they made their predictions.
↑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.
↑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
