Spotlight does not show Movies, Maps, Wikipedia or Websearches

Hi,
I'm looking att all these nice features that Spotlight should have, but quite a few are not working for me.
I'm running a Mac Mini on 10.10.1.
When looking at the spotlight preferences I have 22 categories to choose from. Maps, Wiki and Movies are not not listed amongst the categories.
I have no idea if they should be there, but the internetz seem do indicate that they should.
I can see why Movies do not appear as I'm not living in the US and I believe that those are fetched from Fandango. Perhaps this is also true for Maps
if this is in fact Yelp rather than Maps searches (not sure why that would be). But why no Wiki ? Wiki actually DO exist outside of the US, and
why not letting me use it just because I happen to live in another country ?
I've seen that Language & Region settings seems to be a candidate for this behaviour so does this mean I have to switch system language or region (and
screw up all time settings) just so that I can get Wiki to show up on Spotlight ? If that's the case I'd very much like Apple to fire someone.
Bing Searches is listed as a category, but when moved to the very top I still never get any web search results. Any ideas about that one ?
Same Language/Region issue ? If yes, than that is even more ridonkeylous than the wiki one. It basically means that there has to be a
line of code where it checks if language matches the region and actively remove the bing results rather than not just run that search.
All in all Spotlight just doesn't seem to be nearly as useful for actual users if you live outside Cupertino to be honest. Much disappoint.
/Niklas

When you hover over a file in spotlight list (or select with up/down arrow) you can also hit command-R to open the folder where the file is located. Kind of like 'Show Original' for aliases.
But yeah, Apple really needs to just show the directory path on the hover pop-up by default. Obviously, when you do a search you'll most likely get several files with the same name - we need to see the locations to tell them apart. One of the main reasons to do a file search is to simply find out 'where the file is located' - not necessarily open the file. Seems pretty shortsighted to not show the file location in the search result.

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