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There are now six types of Featured Content in Wikipedia: articles, pictures, lists, portals, topics and sounds. I want to use this thread to assess how other editors feel about creating a new type of featured content: the Featured Template. The exact criteria would obviously have to be established by discussion, but it should imo be for templates that are comprehensive, that provide context, that are easy to navigate and that add to the article. Examples of good templates that might be Featurable are {{Cold War}} and {{War on Terrorism}}. Any thoughts/suggestions? Cows fly kites (Aecis) Rule/Contributions 14:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Fraid not, suggested before, see Wikipedia talk:Featured content/Archive 2#Featured Templates? Galleries? and Wikipedia talk:Featured content/Archive 1#Featured project. --Quiddity 17:28, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As someone who has done alot of work on major templates I'd enjoy the recognition... but that's not the (primary) goal of 'featured' status. The idea is that the featured content should be something we can show to visitors to demonstrate the quality and professionalism of Wikipedia. If we show someone the featured content page they may be impressed. If we show them one of the templates which makes it possible they likely wouldn't be. The 'best' templates might be something which we would want to recognize and learn from internally, but it isn't something that we would be showing to visitors from 'outside'... and 'featured' status is intended for the latter. So, if you want to pursue some sort of recognition system for templates I'd suggest calling it something other than 'featured' - I don't think we'll ever have a list of templates that we push visitors towards perusing, but we could have one for editors to look at. --CBD 12:09, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There is probably a template barnstar somewhere. Have a look on CBD's page! :-) Carcharoth 14:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I was right. He already has two. See Image:Blueprint Barnstar 2.PNG. Carcharoth 14:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that the template barnstar awards editors who have created good templates, not the templates themselves. The Featured/Good/Valuable Template (whatever the name may be) assessment would showcase the templates, as an example to readers and editors. If the only problem is that the content assessment classification (FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Unassessed) wouldn't apply to templates, then I would suggest something to the extent of Valuable Template. Cows fly kites (Aecis) Rule/Contributions 12:15, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think the best way to highlight our best templates is to use them as examples in help/guideline pages. --Quiddity 18:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Accessed articles

Where does one go to see the most accessed articles each day on wikpedia?--LtWinters 23:09, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCharts. --Quiddity 23:35, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How can I Propose a featured article

Frida Kahlo's 100 birthday on July 6th. I tried to find a contact address to place the suggestion, and despite I read the whole contact information, I couldn't find it. I wanted to propose Frida Kahlo's 100 year birthday for the July 6th edition. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.

First you need to improve the article so that is good enough to be a featured article. Then request this at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates – Gurch 14:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

wtf?

Don't make the freakin WonderBra a featured article. For crying out loud, some of us are at work here. . . —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 138.163.0.44 (talk)

Template:FA bias explanation – Gurch 14:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]


==Personal rant== (may NOT qualify for speedy deletion) I am not sure if I should put my personal difficulties in this page but Firefox 2/0/0/6 on Mac OS X Tiger is not displaying this picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tetrahedral_group_2.svg in the main page. I mean not even the PNG version! Am I missing something? --Click me! 10:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC) (All calls may be recorded for quality.)[reply]

Formatting snafu

Why is the featured list (islands in Scotland) copied four times on the page? I couldn't find it in the wikicode so that's why I haven't fixed it myself. Cynical 10:35, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like there were extensive updates to the featured list sub-page the past few days which caused a few hickups. Everything should be sorted out now... and there are a whole bunch of new lists in the rotation thanks to Circeus. --CBD 12:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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