Jake Nelson wrote:
Locations and events in non-English-speaking countries
tend to have
very little information, or it's badly out of date (in some cases, by
a few centuries).
I noticed this in particular when someone mentioned that the English
Wikipedia has now grown to the point where it should focus more on
quality than quantity, since 1.x million articles is surely enough.
That seemed possible to me, although I thought there was still plenty of
obscure but important information we were missing. But when I did some
brief surveys, it turns out we don't have to dig for anything even
remotely obscure to find articles missing. Looking at, say, political
leaders, we don't have anywhere *close* to an article on every leader of
a sovereign country. And it's not just that we have bad coverage of the
non-western world---the English Wikipedia doesn't even have an article
on every prime minister of Austria, to pick a European country.
So I'd be surprised if we're "done" covering even the top-tier subjects
before we get to 3 million articles, if even then.
-Mark