2009/7/25 Felipe Ortega
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* 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.
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geni