[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Apoc 2400 <apoc2400 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think there is a huge number of notable topics that we have not yet
> covered. Sure, there may be fewer sources about central Africa, but
> what about China and South America? The areas most Wikipedians care
> about are well covered, so we don't notice the gaps. The meme that
> Wikipedia is finished and we only need to add new things that become
> notable is very dangerous.

I wonder how we compare to Britannica et al in this regard. Certainly
we don't have many articles on African countries. But do other
English-language encyclopaedias?