On 6/6/06, Azurite <anzu.kaiba(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I can't believe this hasn't been asked before
in some form or another, but
I've searched through all of the archives of the ML, plus the MediaWiki
documentation and other wiki communities, but I haven't been able to find
anything - how do you make an article a "featured" article so it shows up on
the main page for a short period of time? Can you establish a certain
category or series of articles to be "featured" and show up each time
someone visits the Main Page? Is there a way to specially differentiate
between the main page content and the featured article, as per making the
background different or something?
Thanks for your time.
As far as I know there's nothing directly in the mediawiki software to do this.
I'd suggest that you do a view source on the main page of Wikipedia
and see what's there. It's a protected page, so you can't edit it but
you can see what's there. They use a family of templates for each
day's featured article. I suspect that those templates are maintained
manually by one or more privileged users.
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