[WikiEN-l] Borlaug feature pre-reporting; About about WP

Wed Jul 27 21:46:32 UTC 2005

What about allowing for three FA's a day, perhaps even
rotating between them, every couple hours?? This would
mean more work, and more previous featured articles
listed... but it might be fun.

SV

--- David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

> SJ (2.718281828 at gmail.com) [050727 09:37]:
> 
> > SJ, noting that as growth rates persist, at one
> feature a day, many
> > featured articles will never have their day in the
> sun.
> 
> 
> That's fine. The purpose of FA is to note and
> encourage a certain standard
> of quality, not just to pick front page candndates.
> The ratio of FAs has
> stayed fairly constant at 1 in 900 to 1000; we would
> ideally want it to be
> better than that.
> 
> Raul has stated that in his opinion (as Featured
> Articles Dictator), *any*
> article fit to survive VFD could potentially be a
> feature; I think this is
> an entirely worthy goal.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> 
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