It seems to me that Swedish Wikipedia is quite the opposite - they have over 100,000 articles mostly because of the huge amount of substubs...
The Poles are on their way to 100.000 as well by botway that create a lot of stubs. So are the Italian and Portugese which to my surprise are gaining on nl: very rapidly ... probably also by bot-stub-adding ... I wish them good luck and I hope that having more info in their own languages available will attract more contributors :)
Waerth/Walter