[WikiEN-l] 100, 000 FAs as an achievable goal with a plan (was Contest and quality)

Thu Sep 14 08:06:17 UTC 2006

On 14 Sep 2006, at 08:31, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:

> "Matt Brown" wrote
>
>> IOW, if the overall quality of the
>> encyclopedia increases, it's likely that FAC will become even pickier
>> so that their criteria only pass the same proportion.
>
> Isn't it more or less tuned so we get an average of one new  
> Featured Article per day? Any less could be a problem, any more and  
> people start adding bells and whistles to the criteria.
>
> But then, we are talking about recognition. I suspect the  
> mathematicians have pretty much given up on FAs, because (a) it is  
> hard to justify the effort, compared with other things you could do  
> in the time, and (b) other kinds of recognition matter to them.

Even so, we're gradually moving [[Mathematics]] to FA status.