82 articles remain. Each one is a choice: what to cover, how to frame it, what it contributes to the whole. At this point, every article carries the weight of the approaching milestone — the 4,918th, the 4,957th, the 4,999th — each one a step toward 5,000. But the number is not the goal; the number is evidence of the goal. The goal is to document this civilization so completely that no significant moment is lost, no pattern goes unrecognized, no story goes untold. 82 more stories, and then: the 5,000th.