Justin Cormack wrote:
I dont find the featured article process very interesting. There are lots of articles that are of that quality but I dont feel any real incentive to nominate. And quite a few of the FAs are not very good. Articles that I care about are getting better, much better and thats more important to me. What are FAs for? What percentage of articles do you expect to be FAs?
Yeah, this is an important point. The process by which articles are nominated to featured status has its own problems with subjectivity. Whether an article is featured is not a sure-fire way to judge whether it is good or not, and so the number of featured articles being created is not directly corrolated with the rate at which the encyclopedia is improving.
- Ryan