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It will not change the insight.  All one needs to do is look down the list of VAs and see that the vast majority of them are below GA (ten years into the project).  And that that VA project is ""dead"" (no activity in the talk).  I think that pretty clearly shows the massive ""miss"" for Wikipedia.  Something that people at the Sue/Jimbo level should care about.  (And if they don't, maybe we need more critical external essays, to prod them.)

For that matter, if you just look at the current list of 30 FACs.  Only one, ""Brain"" is from the VA top 1000 list.  ""Fluorine"" is from the top 10,000.  The other 28 include such cruft as the 1860 hurricane season and an 11,000 person ""neighborhood"".

That's fine from a ""star collector"" perspective, if people want to work on minutia (have seen several recent FAs that got less than 20 pageviews per day).  But from a LEADERSHIP and PROGRAMMATIC standpoint, it is important to realize that ""the encyclopedia"" is not getting built."