This was an evening event at Wikimedia UK's London office on 21 November 2018. These are my links for a presentation/discussion. A very good discussion, with some people with FA experience & others not. Thanks to all the 12-14 who came, including: User:Worm That Turned, User:WereSpielChequers, User:Anthonyhcole (on a visit from Australia), User:Jason Rees, User:Andrew Davidson, User:Jwslubbock (WMUK, thanks for organizing), and others (please add if I've left off a username).
What edit
Wikipedia:Featured articles: 5,410 = 1/1060
Wikipedia:Featured article criteria - lots of useful links at the bottom
- and back in 2004
Who edit
Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations
Why edit
Main page views: Wikipedia:Today's featured article/Most viewed
- MP Nov 1: Interstate 75 in Michigan - 35k on the day, about 15k for a week. Lt av c. 120/day
- MP Nov 6: Philadelphia municipal election, 1951 - 41k on the day, about 11k for a week. Lt av c. 10/day
- MP Nov 13 Imleria badia - 33k on the day, about 11k for a week. Lt av c. 120/day in season (now), c 20 out of season
- MP Nov 15:Portrait of Maria Portinari - 40k on the day, about 13k for a week. Lt av c. 17/day
- Wikipedia:Today's featured article/recent TFAs - up the creek at the moment - a 2016 version
How to edit
- User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article (2008)
- User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA (2010-12) - good lks at bottom**:
- User_talk:Iridescent#How_To_Write_A_Biography_Of_Audrey_Hepburn_In_Twenty-one_Easy_Steps
- Helpful wikilinks **Stolen from Yannismarou
Most of these are old.
FAC edit
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Black-shouldered kite/archive1 - Passed Dec 17, 16kb. Short, from regular. Took 2 weeks
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Civil Service Rifles War Memorial/archive1 - Passed Jan 18, 31kb - typical shortish length? Had A class review
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/John Adams/archive2- current (Nov 18) - 78 kb & counting - 3 months on Friday!
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of aluminium/archive1 - current (Nov 18) - 61 kb & counting
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bengal famine of 1943/archive3 - April 2018, 145kb, Epic row over sourcing, led to fail. Fallout continues.
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pancreatic cancer/archive1 - 2015, 131kb - very detailed over content, with several expert-ish reviewers. Pass
- Wikipedia:Featured articles/By length - this actually produced gasps of horror on the night, but these are crude byte-counts, often much inflated by tables.
- Ælle of Sussex - used to be shortest
- The Thing (1982 film) - 168 kb (165 in August)
TFA edit
- Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article_oddities#April_Fools'_Day_TFAs
- User:Bishonen/European toilet paper holder
- Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests - seems quiet these days.