The founding principle of Today's featured list was to ensure that the experience for all participants was as straightforward as possible. On the whole, this remains the case, but it is inevitable that a community-based process culminating in main page content will involve a degree of complexity behind the scenes. This page is intended as a one-stop shop for people who would like to help with the smooth running of TFL.
Directors edit
The following things should only be done by the FLC directors (Giants2008 (talk · contribs), Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs) and SchroCat (talk · contribs)), or with their approval.
- Judging the consensus on individual blurbs at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/submissions.
- Moving approved blurbs to Wikipedia:Today's featured list/prep.
- Scheduling a list at Template:TFL archive.
Admins edit
Administrators are welcome to help with the following:
- Ensure that {{TFL-editnotice}} is added to a list before it goes on the main page, and removed once it comes off the main page.
- {{TFL-editnotice}} should not be added to a list which has been protected.
- Correcting errors reported at Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors.
- Ensure that images due to appear on the main page have been protected. Further instructions can be found at Category:Protected main page images.
- Watchlisting Wikipedia:Today's featured list; actions that can only be performed by administrators are frequently requested there.
- Move-protecting FLs on the day they are scheduled to appear on the Main Page.
All editors edit
There are many ways in which all editors can contribute to Today's featured list:
- Writing Featured Lists. For more information on the process, see Wikipedia:Featured list candidates and Wikipedia:Featured list criteria.
- Reviewing Featured List Candidates.
- Nominating a featured list for main-page consideration at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/submissions. If you would like to do so now, please Click here.
- Reviewing submissions at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/submissions: ensuring that the blurb is well-written and that the image is freely licensed.
- Checking submitted lists for things such as link rot, links to disambiguation pages, image licencing and prose quality.
- For a more comprehensive checklist, see this list of things which we typically look for in a featured list candidacy.
- Fixing any problems with lists that have been raised by others.
- Watchlisting lists that are scheduled to appear on the main page. The schedule can be seen at Template:TFL archive.
- Suggesting ways in which we can improve or simplify the process, at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list.