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Wikipedia is a general use encyclopedia intended for everyone. Logic is the study of the principles that govern our rational capacity. It should be a mission of WP to make the concepts of logic accessible to readers.
Back in the day there were no scientists by that name, they were called "natural philosophers." These days science and philosophy only intersect (in an academically recognized way) where there is a frontier: theoretical physics, artificial intelligence, etc. Mathematics is a little different from other "natural sciences." It deals with abstraction, and there is no known limit to the frontier of abstraction.
For certain articles the issue is obvious: Consistency, where there is almost no philosophical treatment even though it is obviously a very important concept for philosophy. A very complete, rigorous article on mathematics may have almost no connection to any other areas. Lack of connections may be because there are none, but it may be that the author and editors are just not in a position to see the connections. The tendency is a self-segregation into mathematics and everything else. The issue is about the organization of articles among each other, and the organization of the outline within some others. The question is what do we do about it?