Wikipedia featured articles

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On this page the number of featured articles on local Wikipedias together with their rating criteria are displayed. However, some wikis may have different views on what featured articles is.

Number of featured articles[edit]

Language # of FAs #FAs/#articles * 1000 Date FA criteria Consensus FA Removal Candidate
Afrikaans 556 4.9 2023-05-05 Yes
Albanian 33 0.3 2022-06-12
Alemannic 63 2.1 2023-07-06 Yes Consensus is reached after one week if there are at least five supports and no objection. After one month a minimum of 75 % support and at least 3 favourable votes are required. Nomination fails after three months. Yes
Arabic 689 0.6 2022-06012 Yes All article nominations must go through a peer review phase, which takes anywhere from 21 to 60 days. If the article passes the review successfully, it moves on to a voting phase where it must receive a minimum of 75% support (at least 5 votes, including 2 votes from reviewers). Yes
Aragonese 16 0.4 2021-12-08
Armenian 60 0.2 2022-01-30
Asturian 108 0.8 2023-02-01
Azeri 255 1.3 2022-06-12
Basque 310 0.7 2022-06-12 Yes No previous consensus needed. Peer review is welcome, but not necessary. The voting phase takes one month, requiring a minimum of five support votes with no objections.
Belarusian (Taraškievica) 40 0.5 2022-01-30
Bengali 9 0.1 2021-02-06 Yes
Bosnian 187 2 2022-06-12
Bulgarian 155 0.5 2022-01-30 Yes Consensus is built within 14 days. There is an optional preliminary review (1 month). Yes
Cantonese 86 0.6 2023-04-21 Yes
Catalan 766 1 2022-03-28 Yes Preliminary peer review is compulsory (15 days minimum), and afterwards there is votation with no time limit (80% positive needed with a minimum of 8 users participating) Yes
Cebuano 34 0 2021-12-29
Chinese 1001 0.7 2023-07-29 Yes Consensus is built within two weeks. A minimum of 2/3 support and at least 8 net favourable votes are required. Yes
Classical Chinese 13 1 2022-01-30
Croatian 845 3.9 2022-01-30
Czech 237 0.4 2022-11-26 Yes
Danish 18 0.1 2022-01-30
Dutch 368 0.2 2023-02-01 Yes Consensus is built within one month Yes
English 6101 0.9 2022-06-12 Yes Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators. and the Featured Article Director determines whether there is consensus after several weeks. Yes
Esperanto 310 0.9 2022-11-26 Yes Consensus is built within a period of maximally 3 weeks. Yes
Estonian 2 0 2020-05-28
Finnish 331 0.6 2022-06-12
West Frisian 10 0.1 2022-03-19
French 2074 0.8 2023-02-01 Yes Quorum and percentage needed. At least 8 users must participate in the vote. and a minimum of 75% support is needed. Details here (in French) Yes
Galician 223 1.1 2022-05-26 Yes Consensus is built within 30 days. A minimum of 75 % support and at least 5 favourable votes are required.
Georgian 237 1.4 2022-06-12
German 2745 1 2022-06-12 Yes Consensus is built within 20 days. Preceding review is recommended. Yes
Greek 126 0.6 2022-06-12
Hebrew 709 2.1 2022-01-30 Preceding review is a must (at least one week). Then a vote is taken place where at least 8 users must participate and where you need at least 60% "for" votes. Yes
Hindi 38 0.2 2022-01-30
Hungarian 1049 2 2022-02-01 Yes Consensus is reached if after two weeks there are at least five supports and no valid objection. Nomination fails after a month of inactivity. (Rules: 1. 2.) There is an optional preliminary review. Yes
Ido 5 0.1 2022-03-17 Yes
Icelandic 9 0.2 2020-05-28 Yes
Indonesian 357 0.5 2022-09-04 Yes Yes
Interlingua 33 1.1 2020-05-28
Italian 539 0.3 2022-05-26 Yes Consensus is built within 20 days. Preceding review is recommended. Yes
Japanese 95 0.1 2022-05-26 Yes Yes
Javanese 110 1.5 2020-05-28
Khmer 31 3 2020-05-28
Korean 120 0.2 2022-01-30 Yes Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators. and the Featured Article Director determines whether there is consensus Yes
Latin 194 1.4 2022-01-30
Latvian 50 0.4 2022-01-30
Lezgi 4 0.9 2020-10-12
Limburgian 32 2.2 2020-05-28
Lithuanian 25 0.1 2022-01-30
Malay 205 0.6 2022-01-30
Maltese 9 1.6 2022-01-30
Malayalam 170 2 2020-05-28
Marathi 49 0.5 2020-05-28
Norwegian (Bokmål) 337 0.5 2023-02-01
Norwegian (Nynorsk) 44 0.3 2020-05-28
Occitan 32 0.4 2023-06-17
Persian 159 0.2 2020-05-28
Polish 963 0.6 2023-02-01 Yes Consensus is built within one month. if nobody has any objections (each must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed) Yes
Portuguese 1379 1.2 2023-02-01 Yes Yes
Romanian 199 0.4 2022-01-30 Yes Yes
Russian 1633 0.8 2022-06-16 Yes Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators in a timespan of 4 to 10 weeks, and one member of the Featured Article Project team determines whether there is consensus Yes
Serbian 274 0.4 2022-05-26 Yes Consensus and quorum is necessary. Consensus is reached after 1+1 week. Voting is taken place where at least 10 users must participate and where you need at least 80% "for" votes or at least 8 for votes if number of voters is below 10. Yes
Serbo-Croatian 382 0.8 2022-01-30
Silesian 3 0.1 2022-01-30
Simple English 26 0.1 2022-12-30 Yes Yes
Slovak 74 0.3 2022-01-30
Slovenian 403 2.2 2023-10-18 Yes Consensus is built in minimally three weeks. Article is featured if it gets at least 4 "for" votes and if there aren't any significant objections. Yes
Spanish 1245 0.7 2023-05-05 Yes Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators. and one member of the Featured Article Administration team determines whether there is consensus. No article can be featured before a 1 week nomination period. FA review. FA removal
Swedish 361 0.1 2023-05-05 Yes Yes
Tagalog 22 0.5 2022-01-30
Tamil 11 0.1 2022-01-30
Thai 182 1.1 2022-01-30
Turkish 210 0.4 2022-01-30 Yes
Ukrainian 217 0.2 2022-05-26 Yes Consensus is built within at least one week. a minimum of 2/3 support is needed. Yes
Urdu 37 0.2 2012-11-10
Uzbek 16 0.1 2022-01-30
Vietnamese 428 0.3 2022-06-12 Yes Essentially ad-hoc before September 2007; now success nominations requires at least 3 support votes and resolve all oppose votes Yes
Walloon 15 1.3 2019-11-10
Welsh 2 0 2020-05-28
Yiddish 11 0.7 2022-01-30
Yoruba 4 0.1 2020-05-28
Volapük 15 0.4 2020-05-28
Total > 27970 2020-07-12

See also[edit]

More lists of Wikipedias by various criteria :  [ edit ]