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The Million Award recognizes editors who bring one of Wikipedia's most-viewed articles or lists to good article (GA), featured article (FA) or featured list (FL) status, serving hundreds of thousands or even millions of readers. The award has two primary goals:
- to recognize editors who improve important, high-traffic articles
- to encourage all Wikipedians by reminding them of the huge volume of readers helped by our work
The award is partly inspired by User:TCO's essay "Improving Wikipedia's important articles", which observes that most Wikipedia incentives value the quantity of promoted content over the importance of promoted content.[a] The Million Award seeks to balance these incentives by recognizing editors who sometimes produce fewer articles, but who serve vast numbers of readers by writing about topics of broad interest.
The "million" in Million Award refers to the article receiving at least one million views per year. Other tiers of Million Award also exist: Quarter-Million Award, Half Million Award, and Three-Quarter Million Award.
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