2009/7/25 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/7/25 Felipe Ortega glimmer_phoenix@yahoo.es:
- The main proportion of Featured Articles in all top-ten language versions needed, at least, more than 1,000 days (3 years) to reach that level.
Note that FA numbers on en:wp don't indicate a given quailty level - but a rising quality level. That is, the quality standards at :en:WP:FAC are consciously being continually raised by the regulars, so that it indicates "the best of the best" rather than measuring generally the quality increase of en:wp.
Looking at article classes (A-class, B-class, C-class, stub-class) for en:wp may be a better measure - these tend to be assigned inside the specialist wikiprojects on a topic.
There is little evidence for this in recent years. While for a long time the FA standards did rise (to keep the promotion rate at about 1 a day) that pattern ceased a couple of years back.