Help:Featured Article System

From Wikia Help

Featured content is any article the wiki community wants to featured - this usually means it should be high-quality and interesting to readers.

Wikia has a suggested featured article process so that the content can be streamed to external sites so you can get more hits :)

The process

• Each featured article needs a page in template namespace (Template:FA/1, Template:FA/2, etc). The page should have three elements:
  1. H3 header teaser line (=== Teaser ===)
  2. Text describing this page - an excerpt/snippet from the page, etc. (make sure there is a link to the article)
     • must be on its own page in the template namespace
     • shouldn't be longer than 100-150 words
     • shouldn't contain fancy tags, such as <table/> or left/right aligned <div/>; templates etc. are ok
  3. An image - a visual teaser (-;
• A summary list of all Featured Articles:
  • This page should be Project:Featured_content
  • with a <ul/> or <ol/> list
  • a <li/> element must contain:
    1. Link to featured article
    2. Link to page with a snippet (e.g Template:FA/1)
    3. a timestamp preserving a date when this piece was featured (eg. 2007-10-22 or December 22, 2007)

Some examples

• Mass Effect - w:c:Masseffect:Mass Effect Wiki:Featured content
• Tabula Rasa - w:c:Tabularasa:TaRapedia:Featured content