User:Ettrig/Sandbox

The table above contains some data about featured articles, sorted according to year promoted. The first column the year of the start of first successful candidacy. The second the number of articles from that year that remained at the end of 2011, as ocularly counted in pages like Featured articles promoted in 2003. A sample containing every tenth article in the list was taken. The third column shows the number of sampled articles from the years respectively. The fourth column shows the median number of pageviews in November 2011 for the sampled articles, using Wikipedia article traffic statistics. My expectation is that trends in median number of pageviews closely follow the trends in average number of pageviews. My interpretation is that from 2007 till now there is strong negative trend in how many FA's are produced and even more in how many see the FA's. Is there something in the FA process that drives the editors away from the topics that the readers are most interested in? --Ettrig (talk) 21:03, 9 January 2012 (UTC)