2009/2/16 wjhonson@aol.com:
Another example is that the vast majority of our articles on US Counties have next to nothing about the county history. That is, when was the county formed? What land was it formed out of? Did the boundaries change over time? What was the first city laid out? Who were the first few documentation-attested inhabitants?
Most of our county articles are just current demographics and geographical information. So not only is there a lot of room for new articles, but there is a lot of room for expanding current articles.
In addition a lot of biographical articles on say medieval people are just skeletons showing how they fit into a certain family, with next to nothing about their own life and accomplishments.
Oh, absolutely. 5 years is an estimate for when we'll be done creating new articles, it will be a long time after that before we're done enlarging existing articles.