Wikipedia:Featured article statistics

This page is dedicated to gathering statistics about featured articles, featured article candidates, and related content-review statistics. There are currently 3488 featured articles, and the current FA percentage is 0.08973%

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
Feb 2012	3886	3488	0.0897%	31	3	28	42	90
Jan 2012	3860	3460	0.0896%	29	5	24	46	78
Dec 2011	3835	3436	0.0896%	24	5	19	40	106
Nov 2011	3813	3417	0.0896%	13	5	8	43	77
Oct 2011	3784	3409	0.0901%	25	3	22	31	93
Sep 2011	3756	3387	0.0902%	22	7	15	32	85
Aug 2011	3727	3372	0.0905%	32	4	28	43	105
Jul 2011	3697	3344	0.0905%	36	5	31	39	91
Jun 2011	3672	3313	0.0902%	31	4	27	41	98
May 2011	3648	3286	0.0900%	37	2	35	38	105
Apr 2011	3627	3251	0.0896%	31	2	29	47	87
Mar 2011	3600	3222	0.0895%	33	3	30	47	79
Feb 2011	3572	3192	0.0893%	29	3	26	45	72
Jan 2011	3550	3166	0.0892%	42	4	38	43	113
Dec 2010	3519	3128	0.0888%	30	3	27	42	89
Nov 2010	3490	3101	0.0889%	27	5	22	36	99
Oct 2010	3460	3079	0.0889%	27	7	20	36	108
Sep 2010	3430	3059	0.0892%	50	10	40	24	115
Aug 2010	3399	3019	0.0888%	55	9	46	41	113
Jul 2010	3367	2973	0.0883%	54	11	43	43	93
Jun 2010	3338	2930	0.0878%	39	7	32	42	98
May 2010	3309	2898	0.0876%	45	14	31	38	113
Apr 2010	3277	2867	0.0875%	43	12	31	37	103
Mar 2010	3238	2836	0.0876%	45	20	25	38	88
Feb 2010	3208	2811	0.0876%	47	5	42	31	108
Jan 2010	3178	2769	0.0871%	51	12	39	35	97
Dec 2009	3145	2730	0.0868%	27	5	22	45	113
Nov 2009	3111	2708	0.0870%	41	8	33	49	115
Oct 2009	3081	2675	0.0868%	52	9	43	44	106
Sep 2009	3048	2632	0.0864%	49	15	34	50	104
Aug 2009	3021	2598	0.0860%	44	26	18	52	141
Jul 2009	2976	2580	0.0866%	35	15	20	45	127
Jun 2009	2928	2560	0.0874%	52	18	34	45	115
May 2009	2899	2526	0.0871%	44	14	30	43	126
Apr 2009	2863	2496	0.0872%	39	21	18	41	118
Mar 2009	2820	2478	0.0879%	50	13	37	46	147
Feb 2009	2767	2441	0.0882%	41	6	35	39	138
Jan 2009	2721	2406	0.0884%	48	7	41	37	172
Dec 2008	2679	2365	0.0883%	53	8	45	30	137
Nov 2008	2642	2320	0.0878%	33	8	25	43	153
Oct 2008	2608	2295	0.0880%	54	14	40	30	167
Sep 2008	2568	2255	0.0878%	59	18	41	41	148
Aug 2008	2539	2214	0.0872%	63	12	51	38	197
Jul 2008	2484	2163	0.0871%	56	8	48	41	180
Jun 2008	2435	2115	0.0868%	59	14	45	35	214
May 2008	2396	2070	0.0864%	54	16	38	38	168
Apr 2008	2354	2032	0.0863%	61	10	51	35	178
Mar 2008	2313	1981	0.0857%	76	16	60	35	165
Feb 2008	2259	1921	0.0850%	69	10	59	42	188
Jan 2008	2203	1862	0.0845%	82	9	73	53	185
Dec 2007	2154	1789	0.0831%	68	13	55	61	107
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	-65	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 February 2008, the number of peer reviews in that month's category.

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Note that this chart does not take into consideration the 2213 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 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.