Many Wikipedia articles start out as just a few sentences and then slowly accumulate content. To give an example I noticed recently, compare https://en.wikipedi

Many Wikipedia articles start out as just a few sentences and then slowly accumulate content. To give an example I noticed recently, compare https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pu-Xian_Min&oldid=141354280 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pu-Xian_Min&oldid... in 2007 vs. now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-Xian_Min https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-Xian_Min Having some basic information already present means that potential editors won't have to start from an empty page, making it easier to see where content can be added. Of course if what you're interested in is actually how much humans contribute to Wikipedia in a given language, you'll need to ignore bot activity, but that doesn't make it useless.