On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:36 PM, John Lee johnleemk@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