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 ]
- List of Wikipedias by article count, users, file count and depth and its source (both updated every 6 hours)
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- List of Wikipedias by sample of articles and expanded sample of articles (both updated monthly)
- List of Wikipedias by featured and good articles (both updated manually)
- List of Wikipedias by creation date (incomplete)
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