Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-28/Dispatches
Wikipedia Dispatches: Banner year for Featured articles
Wikipedia's Featured article process entered the new year having broken new ground in 2007. Net promotions to FA status (promotions at
While an increase in featured article production does not seem unusual given a growth in the overall project, the jump was remarkably abrupt. Both 2005 and 2006 showed a very consistent trend of about one per day (376 and 359 net promotions, respectively) with monthly totals rarely deviating far from 30.
A partial explanation is provided by an analysis of the removals process: while 2005 and 2006 appear uniform, total featured article production, as opposed to net, increased from 437 to 560. But far fewer articles lost status in the first year (61 versus 201) creating an appearance of consistency. Total production would again increase in 2007, to 748, but the removal total was within ten of the previous year, at 192. In short, FA production has been steadily increasing for three years, but this only became obvious in 2007.
Growth was evident at
Featured article production continues to follow the
of Wikipedians successful in nominating a featured article in 2007 is also available.
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Nice report, Marskell. The first four paragraphs could maybe be made more interesting with some links? You could link "