Would it be possible to know which article was number
one million?
I don't think it is possible to establish this after the fact.
Let us say article x on p: was the millionth article and was added at time
t.
Parsing the databases at time t+10min another article y would seem the
millionth article because someone had deleted some articles in the meantime
on q:
And so on, every measurement would point to a different article.
Erik Zachte