[Mediawiki-l] Featured content?

Snowolf snowolf at snowolf.eu
Mon Sep 3 02:21:35 UTC 2007


Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
> On 9/2/07, Sean O'Connor <sean at transabled.org> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if anyone could point me to the extension (or perhaps I've
>> missed the built-in method) to get featured content on the main page
>> of the wiki, a bit like wikipedia does?
>>
>> What I'd like to accomplish is to pin one or two articles to the front
>> page and rotate that on a regular basis.
> 
> I believe they just do this through templates.[1]
> 
I can confirm. It's manually updated every day through a complex system
of templates, but nothing automatic.
> As an aside, I seem to remember a way to view which extensions were
>> used on a particular wiki, but the method now eludes me.  Any info
>> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Special:Version
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article
> 
> 

Snowolf




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