User:Maralia/FAstats

For ideas

 * The latest on featured articles - 13 Oct 2008
 * How busy was 2008? - 16 Feb 2009
 * User:Dr pda/Featured article statistics

Older data

 * User:Feature Historian and User:Feature Historian/Outline
 * Featured article roll of honor

FAs by topic over time
Topic changes that didn't stick:
 * 'Archaeology' split out from 'Art, architecture and archaeology'
 * 'Flora and fauna' split out from 'Biology and medicine'
 * 'Music' split into subtopics" 'Classical music and opera', 'Folk, regional and national music ', and 'Pop music'
 * August 2009 (discussed here):
 * 'Geology, geophysics and meteorology' renamed and expanded to 'Earth sciences'
 * 'Physics and astronomy' split into 'Physics' and 'Astronomy'
 * 'Biology' split into 'Biology' and 'Species'
 * 'Music' subcategories 'Instruments', 'Musicians/bands', 'Songs/albums', 'Musical genres', 'Other'
 * 'Politics and government' subcat 'People'

Misc notes
 * Hubble Space Telescope was the first re-featuredarticle. The second was Belgium, refeatured on 12 Nov 2005.
 * Various attempts made by wikiprojects in 2005 to link or 'outsource' FA listings to project pages.
 * Hit 500 FAs on 6 Feb 2005.
 * FA-to-article ratio was noted to have dropped to 1 per 1,000 on 5 Oct 2005.
 * Hit 1,500 articles on 26 Jul 2007.