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Dispatches

Dispatches: A snapshot of featured article categories

Featured articles by type (February 23, 2008) bar chart.

As the

featured article list has grown, so too have its categories, to a current total of 28. They are broad and are intended to keep the page clean and readable (compare the more extensive categorisation at Wikipedia:Good articles). User:Carcharoth has recently done a "snapshot" of the categories, creating a bar chart (at left) and a pie chart
sorting the featured articles by type, as of February 23, 2008.

The single biggest category is

Featured article review
.

The second and third largest categories are

History
—two categories that cover a large percentage of Wikipedia's overall content—round out the top five. Biographies, which are currently spread across categories, account for 401 FAs and would be the single largest topic type if categorized together.

Discussion on the composition of the featured article list has not been without controversy. The relative over-representation of popular culture has become an issue at the

Mathematics
—categories of core encyclopedic interest— account for just 3% of the featured articles.



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  • Sockpuppeting administrator
  • Print encyclopedias
  • WikiWorld
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  • Technology report
  • Arbitration report

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