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Locations and events in non-English-speaking countries tend to have very little information, or it's badly out of date (in some cases, by a few centuries).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