On 29 March 2010 03:55, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Even for the US, about 80% of the members of state
legislatures
historically are not covered. For the current Michigan House of
Representatives, only 50% of the current members have articles, and
almost none of the earlier ones.
this is very low-lying fruit, well within the reach of any beginner.
Attempting to redefine the difficulty in writing any given article
won't help. Without access to the back issues of local newspapers
writing such articles would be rather dificult and even with them
acquiring the level of base knowledge that tends to be required to
write about a subject would not be easy.
If the other Wikipedias did similarly full coverage of
their home
countries and we translated the articles, there would probably be
potential for an order of magnitude.
Size of national libiaries and the like says no.
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geni