On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:36 PM, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Bear in mind that a lot of articles take a long while to be featured. When I
was active in the process two or three years ago, the waiting list was
already easily a month long, if not more. I'm not sure how it works now but
it can only have gotten lengthier.
The more relevant number is the net change in featured articles over
time (that's promotions minus delistings). Every month this year it's
been quite a bit more than the number of days in that month; indeed
it's been that way since at least early 2006.
We're never going to catch up! (A bad thing because not all FAs will
be main page featured; a good thing because there are so many more
FAs.)
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_statistics
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Stephen Bain
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