On 7 Oct 2005, at 12:25, Jack Lynch wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
I created the above page for this specific purpose - en: has all these articles (or something like them), but very few are up to featured quality.
One problem I see with the FA process is that a lot of the articles are incredibly esoteric. If you're a specialist in a field, you're highly motivated to write a REALLY GOOD article about something you know well. There seems to be less motivation to get the *really general* articles up to featured status. God help the person who tries to get [[Earth]] past the present FAC process and keep it under 200KB.
But who looks up "Earth" in an encyclopaedia? I would expect more people to read [[Brutalist architecture]] than [[Architecture]], although might use the general article as a navigation aid, just because the big things are too general. The list of articles all languages should have is a bit mixed on this - it doesnt have [[Art]], or even [[Novel]] (a rather good article based on a quick skim). Mind you it doesnt have [[Agriculture]], only the most important invention the history of the human race (which needs work).
Justinc