Forum:New Featured Articles

I have just been looking over the Featured Articles that we have on the Main Page. Of the 31 templates only two have change topics in the last three years. I see two ways to handle this. First, the easiest thing would be to come up with new articles that could be featured on the Main Page. This could be 31 completely new articles or we could keep a few of the ones that we have and just add to them. The second option is to come up with 366 articles and have one for each day of the year rather then one for each day of the month.

I'll admit that creating 366 articles is a bit daunting, but having a different article on the Main Page everyday might give some people a reason to come back and visit the wiki more often. If we decide that this is what we want to do then we can start off by coming up with 31 new articles and adding to them. Once we get enough articles together then we can switch to having a unique featured article for each day of the year.

We will need to come up with some sort of nomination process. I would suggest creating a page like LOTR:Featured Article Nominations and have registered users add articles that they think would be good for the featured article spot. Once we have the articles we want to use we can we can condense them down to two or three paragraphs and start cycling them in.

Let me know what you think - Razor77 22:37, 12 July 2009 (UTC)