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 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 214. The pool will close when the number exceeds 400.

Other non-serious pools include the following: Wikipedia:Millionth topic pool, Wikipedia:Two-millionth topic pool, Wikipedia:Eleventy-billion pool, and Wikipedia:Last topic pool.

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.

Yesterday

• Yesterday - Verbless French language -- Toytoy 10:13, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

2006

• 25 December - Sycoraxic (info)--Keycard ^(talk) 09:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• 15 August - Hylian in response to the release of "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" --Unknownwarrior33 23:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

2007

• 1 April. Pig Latin. Durova 05:37, 12 March 2006 (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)
  • SignWriting! Ardric47 04:52, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• 31 December. Romany.--Pharos 06:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

2008

• 12 February - Morse Code. --Mark J 21:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
• 29 February. Leet. --TantalumTelluride 23:13, 31 January 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)
• 4th 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.
• 5 August - Māori --Hamedog^Talk|@ 11:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• 9 September The language will be Ga. Durova 05:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• 1 November. Judeo-Arabic.--Pharos 06:24, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

2009

• 1 January. Gheg Albanian.--Pharos 06:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
• 15 January. Morse Code. --TantalumTelluride 23:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• 12 July -- Volapuk --Cyde Weys 05:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

  See the Volapuk version of Wkipedia, with 46 articles and counting.-gadfium 08:11, 7 February 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)

Sometime in the 2010's

• Mid-September. Borean. - Ghelae^talk_contribs 16:46, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  

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**The first article will be taken from here. - Ghelae^talk_contribs 10:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

• 16th November, 2017 / 2018. Changing vote to Martian (Cydonian Dialect). (that is allowed, right?) - Ghelae^talk_contribs 17:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

2010

• 1 January. Hawaiian Pidgin Sign Language. Shortly after the death of its last user. Warofdreams talk 13:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
• 15 March. Galactic Standard.-gadfium 22:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• 23 June. Moldovan. Again. --Carnildo 09:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Moldovan is already up and running - has been for some time. Sorry. David Cannon 12:47, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Lets just say that past experence suggests it may not stay that way.Geni 02:03, 2 March 2006 (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)
• 5 September. Jeju language. --Iceager 14:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• 24 February. Spanglish--Gamingboy 17:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

2011

• Q3 - Meta language or some kind of intermediate language between humans and machine --Zayani 21:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

2012

• 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)

• 26 July, Proto-Indo-European. —Keenan Pepper 07:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• 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)
  • , Oh, it'll be December 21 all right, but the 500th language will be Maya hieroglyphics --M@rēino 20:17, 21 February 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)

2013

• August 17: 1337 |)3 3$|*4/\'/0|_ (spanish leetspeak). I might have to make it myself. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 00:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

2014

• 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)

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)

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)

2020-2040

• The middle of the summer holidays. Dolphin. Main Page Intro reads {/^ /> /' /"//^/', / />/>>/ />/>// ^ <|>\/ /^ ^/^} or {Ka ke ku kakkeku, k ke keek kekekk a uoauk ka aka), and the Interwiki link will be dlph:. - Ghelae^talk_contribs 13:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

2040

• 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)
  • You mean Climate of London? --TantalumTelluride 06:24, 3 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)

• Eptembersay irstfay. Igpay atinlay. -- Ingkay ofay Eartshay | (alktay) 18:26, Ebruaryfay ifthfay, 2006 (UTC)
  • See m:Requests for new languages/Non-natural for the proposal for this Wikipedia.-gadfium 22:43, 15 February 2006 (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)

2073

• August 2. Matsés-Mayoruna. zafiroblue05 | Talk 02:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

2084

• 4 April. Newspeak. --TantalumTelluride 23:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

2101

• January 1st - 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)

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)
• 1 September. The 500th language. Well, all the terrorist attacks happen in September, so I'm saying that the 500th language is my birthday!

4149

• December 15th 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)

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.

200,000

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

Records

• The most commonly predicted languages are Martian and igpay atinlay with three votes each, with second place being a tie between Morse code, American Sign Language, 13375p33k, and Borean, with two predictions for each.
• The most imaginative entry is English by User:Radiant!.
• The least likely language that actually exists and is in widespread use is American Sign Language by User:gadfium.
• The most successful languages are Klingon, Volapuk and Māori, which managed to have Wikipedia versions before they were nominated. 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.