Gregory Maxwell wrote:
For some time now featured articles have been promoted at an average rate exceeding one per-day. The undeniable consequence of this is that unless the rate of FA promotions drops off most featured articles will *never* make it to the main page. I see no reason to expect the promotion rate to fall, an several arguments why we should expect it to increase.
Yet, being featured on the main page is still cited by users as a big motivator behind their work on featured articles.
There is a simple measure that we could take which would substantially reduce this gap: We could regularlly run two featured articles on the main page like we are doing today.
I like this proposal, although more from the perspective of information-dissemination than motivating FA workers. Featuring things on the main page, both with DYK and the daily featured article, is a way of getting articles read by more people than would've otherwise read them... but the daily FA process is extremely lumpy in that respect in that a tiny percentage of articles get huge exposure, whereas most never do. Having two daily featured articles will hopefully give slightly less (but still very large) exposure to twice as many articles, a step in the right direction. I'd personally even support 3-5 per day in different sections (daily featured biography, etc.), but that's probably not going to happen short-term so I'm not going to push for it. =]
-Mark