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