On 12/05/09 08:13, Nicholas Moreau wrote:
Featured status on wikis might not be a reliable indicator, even on
those wikis that have the process.
Case in point Muppet Wiki: they started a FA process, and received a
burst of nominations and approvals for a few months... after a while
though, it became a "meh"... there was no real reason to take time
acknowledging successes, it took away from working on the project
itself. Many of the highest quality articles go unacknowledged,
because no one wants to bother nominating.
I remember vaguely someone studying this question in Wikipedia (Ed
Chi?). I believe the conclusion was that FA status had high precision
but poor recall: i.e., FA articles were reliably high-quality but there
were many high-quality articles that were not FA.
I could very well be wrong or misremembering, so take with a grain of salt.
Reid