Wikipedia:Featured article statistics

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This page is dedicated to gathering statistics about featured articles, featured article candidates, and related content-review statistics. There are currently 2190 featured articles, and the current FA percentage is 0.08699%

Note: Some of the numbers linked to by the historical version do not match the numbers on this page. In such cases, the numbers on this page are correct.

Tables

Growth of featured and reviewed articles by month:

Date (end of month) # of articles
(in thousands)		 # of FAs FA proportion
#FAs/#articles		 FA promotions FA demotions ΔFAs
(promotions- demotions)		 Current FACs Peer reviews this month
Jul 2008 2484 2163 0.0871% 56 8 48 41 176
Jun 2008 2435 2115 0.0868% 59 14 45 35 173
May 2008 2396 2070 0.0864% 54 16 38 38 184
Apr 2008 2354 2032 0.0863% 61 10 51 35 204
Mar 2008 2313 1981 0.0857% 76 16 60 35 183
Feb 2008 2259 1921 0.0850% 69 10 59 42 188

Jan 2008

 2203 1862 0.0845% 82 9 73 53 184

Dec 2007

 2154 1789 0.0831% 68 13 55 61 156

Nov 2007

 2109 1734 0.0822% 81 12 69 67 149

Oct 2007

 2071 1665 0.0804% 45 13 32 86 164
Sep 2007 2029 1633 0.0804% 76 15 61 51 169
Aug 2007 1984 1572 0.0792% 62 14 48 68 220
Jul 2007 1925 1524 0.0792% 70 17 53 64 180
Jun 2007 1858 1471 0.0792% 73 9 64 60 153
May 2007 1811 1407 0.0777% 56 23 33 55 228
Apr 2007 1762 1374 0.0780% 53 17 36 62 209
Mar 2007 1714 1338 0.0781% 88 17 71 39 224
Feb 2007 1663 1267 0.0762% 52 18 34 52 191
Jan 2007 1611 1233 0.0765% 49 24 25 28 253
Dec 2006 1559 1208 0.0775% 50 17 33 29 204
Nov 2006 1511 1175 0.0778% 65 30 35 38 206
Oct 2006 1462 1140 0.0780% 44 21 23 64 143
Sep 2006 1412 1117 0.0791% 47 24 23 60 174
Aug 2006 1363 1094 0.0803% 50 21 29 42 199
Jul 2006 1290 1065 0.0826% 53 16 37 31 197
Jun 2006 1227 1028 0.0838% 43 2 + 2 39 38 177
May 2006 1166 0989 0.0848% 47 17 30 29 148
Apr 2006 1108 0959 0.0866% 39 10 29 15 160
Mar 2006 1054 0930 0.0882% 44 19 25 44 129
Feb 2006 0999 0905 0.0906% 35 9 26 47 111
Jan 2006 0947 0879 0.0928% 43 13 30 26 134
Dec 2005 0894 0849 0.0950% 36 8 28 19 121
Nov 2005 0848 0821 0.0968% 37 8 29 24 116
Oct 2005 0792 0792 0.1000% 34 1 33 25 116
Sep 2005 0750 0759 0.1012% 37 7 30 10 081
Aug 2005 0709 0729 0.1028% 45 5 40 25 133
Jul 2005 0660 0689 0.1044% 37 1 36 25 096
Jun 2005 0614 0653 0.1064% 40 4 36 18 104
May 2005 0578 0617 0.1067% 33 4 29 22 066
Apr 2005 0547 0588 0.1075% 30 3 27 26 099
Mar 2005 0514 0561 0.1091% 47 9 38 17 039
Feb 2005 0485 0523 0.1078% 37 4 33 14 038
Jan 2005 0463 0490 0.1058% 24 7 17 25 050
Dec 2004 0447 0473 0.1058% 31 12 19 15 056
Nov 2004 0418 0454 0.1086% 37 6 31 32 063
Oct 2004 0383 0423 0.1104% 36 3 33 33? 045
Sep 2004 0367 0390 0.1063% 46 7 39 22 062
Aug 2004 0344 0351 0.1020% 46 3 43 26
Jul 2004 0322 0308 0.0957% 39 3 36 29
Jun 2004 0300 0272 0.0907% 15 2 13 16
May 2004 0279 0259 0.0928% 31 3 28 27
Apr 2004 0259 0231 0.0892% 26 3 23 19
Mar 2004 0239 0208 0.0870% 15 10 05 55
Feb 2004 0217 0203 0.0935% 20 4 16 46
Jan 2004 0201 0194 0.0965% 16 81 45

Key:

  • Current FACs - the # of FACs (closed after 1-2 weeks, in general) on the FAC list at the date in question. Towards the end of 2004, FAC moved from a two-week evaluation period to a one-week period, cutting the number of current-FACs more or less in half. Some nominations are given more than the usual period to overcome objections.
  • Peer reviews this month - to December 2004, the # of entries on Wikipedia:Peer review which were submitted after the start of the month and are still on the list on the date in question; from December 2004, the number of entries contained in that month's archive. From December 2007, the higher of the number of reviews in that month's peer review archive or semi-automated peer review archive.

Note that this chart does not take into consideration the three hundred-odd featured lists. It does, however, include the thousands of lists in the number of overall articles, so the proportion of featured articles is actually somewhat higher than it would appear from this chart. For details of the promotion of featured list candidates, see the featured list log.

Graphs

A graph of the total number of featured articles on the English and German Wikipedias
A graph of the total number of featured articles on the English and German Wikipedias
A graph of the FA proportions on the English and German Wikipedias. The FA proportion = (# featured articles)/(total article count)
A graph of the FA proportions on the English and German Wikipedias. The FA proportion = (# featured articles)/(total article count)

See also

For a similar record for the good articles system, see Wikipedia:Good article statistics.

Wikipedia content modification information:

  • This page was last modified on 10 August 2008, at 21:13.

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