On 4/10/06, Mathias Schindler neubau@presroi.de wrote:
The current aim of some people is to reach the (moving) target of 0,2 per cent of featured articles.
I'll tell you how you can achieve that goal immediately: Lower the standard to such a degree that all articles are included.
Seriously, I don't think there is much point to such goals. Sure, they improve the encyclopedia, which is great. But people will cite statistics like "Only 0.1% of our articles are featured!" as if this means that Wikipedia sucks or something. No, it just means the standard for featuring is high, and if the gap between articles : featured articles is increasing, that just means the standard is going up. It has nothing to do with the objective quality of the encyclopedia; it's only the relative quality. That is, the relative quality between articles.
Ryan