[dredmorbius]

The majority of stories aren't that complex.

The overwhelming majority of stories I've found it useful for me to look up on Wikipedia ... tend to be there. Most of these tend toward natural disasters, industrial / infrastructure incidents, business/political news, possibly something in technology or the sciences. Not so much "human interest", celebrities/gossip, entertainment, etc., though I suspect some of those might also find their way to Wikpedia, modulo BLP considerations (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...>).

Wikipedia does not merely regurgitate news, but processes, synthesizes, and very often balances multiple viewpoints.

[dredmorbius]

And, just to give a current example, the sinking of Bayesian doesn't merit its own article (yet?), but there is a section on the page covering that yacht:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_(yacht)#Sinking_and_a...>

Though it's worth noting that that page itself was created two days ago, presumably on account of the notable persons involved in its sinking:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bayesian_(yacht)&...> (first version of the page dated 19 August 2024)