[WikiEN-l] Two main page FAs per day.

[Delirium]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> For some time now featured articles have been promoted at an average
> rate exceeding one per-day.  The undeniable consequence of this is
> that unless the rate of FA promotions drops off most featured articles
> will *never* make it to the main page.  I see no reason to expect the
> promotion rate to fall, an several arguments why we should expect it
> to increase.
>
> Yet, being featured on the main page is still cited by users as a big
> motivator behind their work on featured articles.
>
> There is a simple measure that we could take which would substantially
> reduce this gap:  We could regularlly run two featured articles on the
> main page like we are doing today.
>   

I like this proposal, although more from the perspective of 
information-dissemination than motivating FA workers. Featuring things 
on the main page, both with DYK and the daily featured article, is a way 
of getting articles read by more people than would've otherwise read 
them... but the daily FA process is extremely lumpy in that respect in 
that a tiny percentage of articles get huge exposure, whereas most never 
do. Having two daily featured articles will hopefully give slightly less 
(but still very large) exposure to twice as many articles, a step in the 
right direction. I'd personally even support 3-5 per day in different 
sections (daily featured biography, etc.), but that's probably not going 
to happen short-term so I'm not going to push for it. =]

-Mark