2013—the trends

Two graphs of the featured content promoted this year, using the data in the table below. The line chart on the left shows the individual rates of promotion of each type of featured material, by month. The stacked bars on the right show the contribution of each featured-content forum towards the total number of new promotions, by month.

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Articles

Lists

Pictures

Portals

Topics

*Note: This does not include demoted content; numbers for featured pictures count sets as multiple promotions (one per image in the set)

<br\> Over the past year 1181 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured picture candidates (FPC), which promoted an average of 46 pictures a month. This was followed by featured article candidates (FAC; 32.5 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 18 a month). Featured topic and featured portal candidates remained sluggish, each promoting fewer than 15 items. Although in February a proposal was made to revive featured sounds, ultimately nothing came but silence.

This year, the Signpost has counted sets promoted at FPC as multiple promotions, owing to a change in the counting method; so the total amount of featured content promoted this year is not directly comparable to that promoted last year. However, it seems to have been an increase no matter what: as covered last year, in 2012 a total of 963 pieces of featured content were promoted, whereas sets account for fewer than 100 additional pieces of featured content. The average number of promotions for FAC, FPC, and FTC has increased, while FPOC has remained constant and FLC has actually decreased.

At FAC, common topics continue to include male political and military figures, ships, television episodes, and songs, generally from the US, Britain, and Australia. FLC has remained dominated by discographies and sports figures, predominantly from the US, Britain, and India; an increasing number of filmographies have also been promoted, as well as some bibliographies. FPC, as with last year, remains dominated by animal species, works of art by European and American artists, and similar subjects.

Month	Articles	Lists	Pictures	Topics	Portals	Total
January	25	19	68	0	4	116
February	14	22	47	0	0	83
March	42	19	37	2	0	100
April	25	19	25	2	0	71
May	45	17	39	0	2	103
June	36	24	86	1	0	147
July	37	23	46	1	0	107
August	44	15	34	1	0	94
September	35	26	23	0	0	84
October	31	13	57	4	0	105
November	34	12	70	1	0	117
December	22	7	24	0	1	50
Total	390	216	556	12	7	1177

2013—the trends

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