Tony Sidaway wrote:
I started Berufsverbot and, more recently, Holding the
Fort. The
former is a controversial German law barring political radicals from
public sector employment, and the latter is an ITV situation comedy
that ran for three seasons and starred two very famous actors.
I was very surprised on both occasions that we didn't have articles on
the subjects. There are still yawning gaps.
I've had a similar experience---while 1.3 million articles sounds like a
lot, the sum of human knowledge is much larger. :-)
To have reasonable coverage of all major topics, I'd guess at least 5
million articles would be necessary, if not 10 million. In particular,
we should bring coverage on en: of non-Anglosphere geography, history,
and politics up to the level of coverage we have for the Anglosphere.
For example, we have at least a basic article on every single town in
the U.S. (thanks to the census database) and almost all in the U.K., but
don't even have articles for every state or province of some countries,
let alone all the cities and towns. There are people who have been
president or prime minister of a sovereign country for whom we don't yet
have a biography. Even in the Anglosphere, there's plenty of room for
expansion: there are lots of major court precedents, moderately
important historical figures (state/provincial governors, entrepreneurs,
judges, etc.), state/provincial parks, geographical features (mountains,
rivers, islands, etc.), and so on that are still either red links or
wholly absent.
-Mark