Regardless, the incompleteness of Wikipedia All this change, and Wikipedia still has a large bit of distance to go before it can even be called "fairly complete". I think one of the problems is that history waits for no one; it continues on at such a rapid pace that no person (or no encyclopedia, for that matter) can catch up with it. Also, many things that occurred in the past are slowly being forgotten. Some of those events or people from long ago are already gone and dead, and if no one remembers, no one can know, and if no one cares, then no one will know. Nevertheless, Spaceship Wikipedia is still pushing on through this endless realm of information.