>Dutch and Swedish used to be your average Wikipedias, with article counts somewhere in the ~500k. They both decided that it was more important to have a higher article count so they now employ bots to create new articles with the bare minimum of data (sentence or two, pulled from other language Wikipedias).

Interesting! The german wikipedia in comparison is doing the exact opposite and has very strict relevance criteria for new articles.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...