[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[geni]

2009/7/25 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/25 Felipe Ortega <glimmer_phoenix at 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.

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geni