The portal doesn't select from all featured articles, only those that have been on the main page. I do agree that the Featured Content portal is under-promoted though (in fact portals generally are)
Pete / the wub 2009/12/13 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > As Quiddity pointed out, we have this random featured article feature > already. Question is, why is it not obvious? Does it need to made > clearer that we already have this? To be fair, I was unaware of the > toolserver ones. Is that something different, meaning we have *two* > ways to access a random featured article? Are there differences? > > Carcharoth > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Bod Notbod <[email protected]> wrote: >> What's the best namespace or place to make a proposal that en:wp have >> a "random *featured* article" button? >> >> As anyone who uses the random article link knows it often turns up >> places of small geographical interest. We now have a pretty damn good >> library of featured content. I'd really enjoy being able to pop a >> random featured article, knowing I was about to see some of the best >> we have to offer. >> >> The downside, of course, is that it could further clutter an already >> fairly busy interface; so perhaps this could be switched on in >> preferences? Or alternatively perhaps the feature could be made >> available from a button that only appears when you visit a certain >> page? >> >> User:Bodnotbod >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
