On 12/7/07, Felipe Ortega <glimmer_phoenix(a)yahoo.es> wrote:
And... Besides that, there is no homogeneous tag to
flag this articles in any language edition... It's... curious, isn't it?
Not really. The idea of a "featured article" is fairly specific to
Wikimedia's goals, and doesn't particularly belong in the software as
a special case. Templates and categories exist specifically to allow
this kind of flexibility to be implemented *without* developer
intervention. If you want a list of featured articles, you can easily
get it by joining the page table to the categorylinks or templatelinks
table. That this isn't standardized across projects is something for
the projects to deal with among themselves if it's viewed as an issue.
(Standards for good/featured status are pretty disparate anyway
between the projects, I suspect.)