Criteria
To be a featured article, the article should...
- Be about a geek woman or group of geek women or organisation that supports geek women
- Have a picture
- Have at least a screenful of content (~500 words)
- Have good wiki-style, including:
- good page structure (sub-headings, etc)
- links to other related wiki pages (ideally not too many red links)
- inclusion in appropriate categories
Featured article discussion
Older discussions have been archived:
- Meta:Featured articles/Original proposal
- Meta:Featured articles/Quarterly schedule
New discussion should take place on Meta talk:Featured article
Schedule of upcoming feature articles
At this stage, if you want a geek woman or a geek woman's organisation in the schedule, just fix it up (add a picture, make sure it's 3 or more paragraphs in length), add {{subst:Nominate featured article}} at the top of the article and stick it in here! Check Category:Proposed feature article for ideas.
- 1 June 2012: Anita Borg (arbitary, we just need one decided)
- 1 September 2012: Ada Lovelace Day (assuming it is scheduled for 7 October again) or Organization for Transformative Works (which has their major funding drive in October)
- 1 December 2012: Undecided
- 1 March 2013: Undecided
- 1 June 2013: BlogHer (if it's in the summer again)
- 1 September 2013: Undecided
- 1 December 2013: Undecided
Making the changeover
- Edit the front page:
- remove the previous feature
- add the new one, including an excerpt from the article, a picture from the article, and a link to the article.
- update the links to the previous and next featured articles (you may need to JFDI and decide the next one if there's nothing in the schedule)
- Add {{subst:Record featured article}} to the top of the featured page article on the day of the switch (and remove the "Proposed" template if any).
Choose the next featured article
Make a suggestion
Add {{subst:Nominate featured article}} to the top of an article to suggest it as a featured article. It will add the appropriate category automatically.
Current suggestions
For a list of all proposed feature articles, see Category:Proposed feature article
Past featured articles
- WisCon (April 4, 2012)
- Denise Paolucci (December 5, 2011)
- Grace Hopper Celebration (October 5, 2011)
- LinuxChix miniconf (November 11, 2009)
See also: Category:Featured article