On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:01:45 +0000, "Andreas K." jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
There was a lengthy discussion recently on en:WP at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#FAC_...
about the fact that many featured articles – at least on en:WP – are
about
niche topics, while so-called "vital articles" (VA), i.e. core topics
that
any encyclopedia would be expected to cover well, are underperforming,
with
comparatively few making FA or GA. Looking at the VA list,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VA
topic areas like philosophy, languages and social sciences seem to be
doing
particularly poorly.
Whereas it is an important issue, I believe it can only be resolved by wikiprojects who can compile their priority lists and collectively work on the most important articles. At some point, about three years ago, I tried to organize in Russian Wikipedia an umbrella wikiproject cross-project work on VA. It was never a success.
Cheers Yaroslav