2009/7/25 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > 2009/7/25 Felipe Ortega <[email protected]>: > >> * The main proportion of Featured Articles in all top-ten language versions >> needed, at least, more than 1,000 days (3 years) to reach that level. > > > Note that FA numbers on en:wp don't indicate a given quailty level - > but a rising quality level. That is, the quality standards at > :en:WP:FAC are consciously being continually raised by the regulars, > so that it indicates "the best of the best" rather than measuring > generally the quality increase of en:wp. > > Looking at article classes (A-class, B-class, C-class, stub-class) for > en:wp may be a better measure - these tend to be assigned inside the > specialist wikiprojects on a topic. >
There is little evidence for this in recent years. While for a long time the FA standards did rise (to keep the promotion rate at about 1 a day) that pattern ceased a couple of years back. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
