As of November 2016, how many articles were published to the Wikipedia website?

The number of articles published on Wikipedia as of November 2016 was approximately 5,274,497. This figure reflects the massive growth of Wikipedia as a collaborative online encyclopedia, where contributors continuously add and edit articles across diverse topics. The intricacies of maintaining an up-to-date count involve ongoing contributions, deletions, and edits from users around the world, making the exact number a snapshot in time.

The selected choice encapsulates the content generation of one of the largest repositories of information in history. Other figures like 4,500,000 or 6,000,000 might not accurately represent the status of Wikipedia at that specific point in time, while 5,000,000, although close, falls short of the actual count and does not capture the impressive scale of Wikipedia's growth leading up to that date.