[WikiEN-l] 100K challenge page up

[David Gerard]

On 14/09/06, Rory Stolzenberg <rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am I the only one who thinks this is absolutely impossible?  I'm thinking
> 2,500, and even that's ambitious.  Per WP:100K, each FA requires 50
> editing-hours- that's 5,000,000 editing-hours for 100,000 FAs. Dividing that
> by 8760 hours in a year, that's over 570 editors working 24/7/365.  More
> realistically, we'd have editors working on average maybe 2 hours a day at
> most, so multiply that number by 12. That's 6840 editors working 2 hours a
> day, 7 days a week for a year, solely on articles that they will make
> featured.
> 2,500 FAs would require only 125,000 hours, when dividing by the hours in a
> year it works out to be a bit over 14 editors working 24/7/365 and 168
> working 2/7/365 only on creating FAs.


I'm not presuming the FA process as it stands or anything like it; I
am presuming the FA criteria.

It's probably impossible. So?


- d.