This is a first: someone published an article about the upcoming featuring of the excellent Borlaug article: http://www.truthabouttrade.org/article.asp?id=4166
And, now that we are passing About in popularity, their web Guides report that our stats charts are "pretty dang cool": http://websearch.about.com/b/a/188129.htm
SJ, noting that as growth rates persist, at one feature a day, many featured articles will never have their day in the sun.
SJ (2.718281828@gmail.com) [050727 09:37]:
SJ, noting that as growth rates persist, at one feature a day, many featured articles will never have their day in the sun.
That's fine. The purpose of FA is to note and encourage a certain standard of quality, not just to pick front page candndates. The ratio of FAs has stayed fairly constant at 1 in 900 to 1000; we would ideally want it to be better than that.
Raul has stated that in his opinion (as Featured Articles Dictator), *any* article fit to survive VFD could potentially be a feature; I think this is an entirely worthy goal.
- d.
SJ, noting that as growth rates persist, at one feature a day, many featured articles will never have their day in the sun.
Hmm... The queue may grow faster than it moves forward but still it does move forward, so any given featured article will eventually appear at the front page, even if the line keeps growing longer.
Regards, Haukur
What about allowing for three FA's a day, perhaps even rotating between them, every couple hours?? This would mean more work, and more previous featured articles listed... but it might be fun.
SV
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SJ (2.718281828@gmail.com) [050727 09:37]:
SJ, noting that as growth rates persist, at one
feature a day, many
featured articles will never have their day in the
sun.
That's fine. The purpose of FA is to note and encourage a certain standard of quality, not just to pick front page candndates. The ratio of FAs has stayed fairly constant at 1 in 900 to 1000; we would ideally want it to be better than that.
Raul has stated that in his opinion (as Featured Articles Dictator), *any* article fit to survive VFD could potentially be a feature; I think this is an entirely worthy goal.
- d.
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This is something like what I was thinking :-) SJ
On 7/27/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
What about allowing for three FA's a day, perhaps even rotating between them, every couple hours?? This would mean more work, and more previous featured articles listed... but it might be fun.
SV
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
SJ (2.718281828@gmail.com) [050727 09:37]:
SJ, noting that as growth rates persist, at one
feature a day, many
featured articles will never have their day in the
sun.
That's fine. The purpose of FA is to note and encourage a certain standard of quality, not just to pick front page candndates. The ratio of FAs has stayed fairly constant at 1 in 900 to 1000; we would ideally want it to be better than that.
Raul has stated that in his opinion (as Featured Articles Dictator), *any* article fit to survive VFD could potentially be a feature; I think this is an entirely worthy goal.
- d.
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On 7/27/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
What about allowing for three FA's a day, perhaps even rotating between them, every couple hours?? This would mean more work, and more previous featured articles listed... but it might be fun.
It wouldn't have to mean more work. The rotation could be done automatically with a random selection extension like the image at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Template:Featuredimage and the featured game on http://games.wikicities.com/
Angela.
On 7/28/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
It wouldn't have to mean more work. The rotation could be done automatically with a random selection extension like the image at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Template:Featuredimage and the featured game on http://games.wikicities.com/
Angela.
I hate to be the downer on this, but I'm a little bit surprised that no one has asked the obvious question - what is the point of this? We're currently producing about ten featured articles a week. That's enough to keep up the current system and give Raul a little bit of choice in order to keep an interesting mix of main page articles. If we had two or three featured articles on the main page a day (which I don't see as very necessary anyway), we'd have to substantially increase our output of featured articles, or else we'd be having to repeat already-featured articles in a matter of months.
-- ambi
I think the idea was, that theres a substantial backlog, and that at the current rate, 1 per day keep up with the number of valid submissions. Yes, theres enough to do this with. No, I dont think that the 10 random articles test should be considered a bellweather for such a narrow cat. You pessimist, you. ;)
Anyway I dont really do daily features handling, but it looks like its gonna happen BYKI. 2 a day... 3 a day... maybe 4 a day.. who knows.
All I know is that if something sucky gets on the front page I'll quickly get motivated (a little miffed 2) and start editing the hell out of it.
SV
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On 7/28/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
It wouldn't have to mean more work. The rotation
could be done
automatically with a random selection extension
like the image at
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Template:Featuredimage and the featured
game on http://games.wikicities.com/
Angela.
I hate to be the downer on this, but I'm a little bit surprised that no one has asked the obvious question - what is the point of this? We're currently producing about ten featured articles a week. That's enough to keep up the current system and give Raul a little bit of choice in order to keep an interesting mix of main page articles. If we had two or three featured articles on the main page a day (which I don't see as very necessary anyway), we'd have to substantially increase our output of featured articles, or else we'd be having to repeat already-featured articles in a matter of months.
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OK. Ive copied the current template and put together what that code would look like at: Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/test
It should work whenever someone gets the chance to install the relevant extension.
SV
--- Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/27/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com
wrote:
What about allowing for three FA's a day,
perhaps even
rotating between them, every couple hours?? This
would
mean more work, and more previous featured
articles
listed... but it might be fun.
It wouldn't have to mean more work. The rotation could be done automatically with a random selection extension like the image at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Template:Featuredimage and the featured game on http://games.wikicities.com/
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