Forum:SH Archive/Featured article queue change

Those of you have been around for some time will probably remember that we used to showcase one featured article on the main page each week. As the number of FAs grew, the FA queue got longer and longer and a CT in August 2007 agreed to feature two articles a week, each one showing for 3.5 days. The queue continued to grow rapidly and another CT later that year decided to switch to a different FA on the main page every day from the start of 2009, providing "the FA production rate surpasses or equals an average of one successful nom per day."

Well, we never quite achieved that. Since we started daily FAs, we've averaged around 5 new FAs a week. Over the last three months of 2010 this dropped to around 2.5 a week. The queue is shrinking rapidly and now only goes as far as May. At our current production and consumption rates, the daily FAs are not sustainable.

This was discussed at the recent meeting of the Inquisitorius. In summary, we're still producing too many to return to one a week, and while returning to two a week would be better, it would likely still result in the queue growing since we pass this even at our least productive. Overall it was felt that a switch to showcasing a different FA every other day, or 3.5 a week would be the best way to maintain the queue in the long term.

We still have some time before this needs to be implemented, so if there are other ideas which might work, let us know here. Otherwise we will be implementing this to start from April 2. Green Tentacle (Talk) 22:27, January 19, 2011 (UTC)