[WikiEN-l] Deterioration of Featured Articles

[Mathias Schindler]

Ryan Delaney wrote:
> On 4/10/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If articles don't deteriorate, why do they get de-featured?
> 
> 
>  Usually it's because the standard for featured articles has gone up.
> 

Pretty much the same is happening with the "Exzellente Artikel" from 
de.wp.  The current standard is now much more rigid than in 2004. Last 
year, there was a semi-featured status "Lesenswerte Artikel" introduced.

It is the common perception that many of the first featured articles in 
de.wp would fail to qualify for "Lesenswerte Artikel", let alone for the 
current "Exzellente Artikel".

However:
Some de-featured articles came to this status just because de.wp was 
lacking someone to point out the structural errors and problems it 
contained. This situation has improved as well in the last year.

The current aim of some people is to reach the (moving) target of 0,2 
per cent of featured articles.

de.wp is currently 52 articles away from this moving target.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistik_der_exzellenten_Artikel

the aim of some people is to make 0,5 per cent to get "Lesenswerte Artikel".

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistik_der_lesenswerten_Artikel

They are currently 678 articles away from that target.

Mathias