(I am going out of Belgrade for a couple of days and I would like to start this RFC, too. When I back to Belgrade (during the next week) I'll try to make proposals for mass content adding and this idea on Meta.)
In this moment we (on sr:) are talking about mass content adding in Serbian Wikipedia. The main issue are 40.000 of French municipalities and around 60.000 of municipalities from former Yugoslavia. (As well as municipalities from the rest of the world.)
Even this kind of articles will have a limited amount of information at the beginning, the amount of information can grow. For example: In this moment we have geographic and some demographic data. But, in the near future I can add some linguistic data, too (what dialect is spoken in what place; this can be very interesting because some dialectology atlases have a lot of information); as well as we can add a number of other information which are related to geography (time lines, ethnography, etc.).
BUT, some people do not see Wikipedia as revolution encyclopedia. Some people want to work on a classic encyclopedias which are divided into general and special. In general, project Wikispecies is a try to make one specialized encyclopedia.
My suggestion is to resolve this conflict on software level: Like Wikispecies, we can have (subdomains) xx.geography.wikipedia.org, xx.astronomy.wikipedia.org, and even xx.economy.wikipedia.org, xx.history.wikipedia.org etc. Such subdomains, as well as Wikispecies would become categories inside of Wikipedia as well as separate sites which would have only articles from specific field.
Also, this would make more easy possibility to print Wikipedia partially. It would be more easy to make editions like "Wikipedia: Geography", "Wikipedia: Linguistics" etc.
What do you think?