Proposal:30,000,000 English Wikipedia articles by the year 2029

From Strategic Planning
Status (see valid statuses)

The status of this proposal is:
Request for Discussion / Sign-Ups

Every proposal should be tied to one of the strategic priorities below.

Edit this page to help identify the priorities related to this proposal!


  1. Achieve continued growth in readership
  2. Focus on quality content
  3. Increase Participation
  4. Stabilize and improve the infrastructure
  5. Encourage Innovation


If not English, in what language is this proposal submitted?:

Summary

We have to get 30,000,000 articles by January 1, 2029 so that Wikipedia can establish itself in future history

Proposal

Trying to get people to create articles about stuff that is more future-oriented than acceptable in the past. For example, we need to start accepting more articles about hypothetical inventions/events/organizations (in addition to future celebrities that are currently just the children of current celebrities) and more stuff involving dates in the future.

Motivation

English Wikipedia must keep increasing the number of articles in its portfolio if it is to gather all the information needed about the upcoming Singularity and solve the problems of global warming, overpopulation, and how to better prepare our people for space exploration and colonization.

Key Questions

  • Is there a way to get school children (from ages 8-21) involved in editing Wikipedia articles in their spare time?
  • How do we get people to create more articles about people who are not movie stars, musicians, or other famous people?
  • Can we convince the world that a manager of a local family restaurant is just as important as Tom Cruise or Tyra Banks?

Potential Costs

Just the amount of time it takes to get English Wikipedia up to 30,000,000 articles

References

Community Discussion

Do you have a thought about this proposal? A suggestion? Discuss this proposal by going to Proposal talk:30,000,000 English Wikipedia articles by the year 2029.

Want to work on this proposal?

  1. Vibhijain 10:01, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
  2. Akenes 19:01, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
  3. ~~EBE123~~ talkContribs 13:43, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
  4. .. Sign your name here!
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:30,000,000_English_Wikipedia_articles_by_the_year_2029
strategy.wikimedia.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-05
40327
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:TYKCVNCFX57EYKKTWRFYINFYJKPM3ZZ2
<urn:uuid:51f3c389-ba25-4fcd-9e78-f0f62c6a38d1>
2022-01-20T07:05:29Z
208.80.154.224
text/html
sha1:FQSY7GU4DH7JDN3REP7L7GA643MKDGLY
<urn:uuid:ad425823-88b0-4c17-b2a9-eeca9853a646>
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:30,000,000_English_Wikipedia_articles_by_the_year_2029
response
<urn:uuid:2cb0e8d2-6be7-4cc1-8667-b8d2061a42ab>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-05
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for January 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-91
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.3-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/