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Dispatches: A snapshot of featured article categories

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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In addition to Dinosaur Project contributions and
Biography articles
The other big statistic I pulled out of that analysis I did at the weekend was biography articles. The figure of 403 featured biographical articles about people. Could you squeeze that in as a sentence that there are other ways to cut up the FA cake? Maybe, along with a mention that there are far too many articles on Wikipedia about people... :-) Nearly 500,000 if I recall correctly. Yes, see the total at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality statistics (that does include the music group articles, unfortunately). The 500,000 number is not really accurate enough to use except as a wild estimate (and if even 0.1% of the biography articles are untagged, that would be 500 untagged articles). Sorry, that is getting way off topic. But could the 403 figure be included? Carcharoth (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Image layout
Stupid Signpost logo, hey! :-) The chart did look better on the right, but hey. Carcharoth (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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