John Vandenberg wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com 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.
Do we have a graph indicating no. of FA's over time? Is the rate increasing?
There's some numbers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Featured_...
The rate of new FAs increased through 2007, but is about the same per month in 2008 as in 2007 (or even slightly lower). However that rate is still about 60 per month, or about twice as many new FAs per month as featured FAs that month. Featuring two articles per day wouldn't clear the backlog, but would at least keep it approximately constant. =]
-Mark