Wikipedia:Featured topics/Main Page appearances

Featured topics in Wikipedia This star symbolizes the featured topics on Wikipedia. This is a record of occasions upon which featured topics have been highlighted on the Main Page. A featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality and represents Wikipedia's best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other. The system of featured topics began in 2005. The "Today's Featured Article" (TFA) section has appeared on the Main Page since 2004, but it was not until Wikipedia's 10th birthday, in 2011, that a link to a featured topic appeared on the Main Page. Featured topics have been included within TFA blurbs since July 2014, and within the "Today's Featured List" (TFL) blurbs since September 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] There are currently 185 featured topics that encompass 1,507 unique articles. There are 57 articles concurrently in two featured topics, 10 articles in a featured topic and a good topic, 7 articles in two featured topics and a good topic, and 2 articles in a featured topic and two good topics. There are 47 topics in which every article is featured if possible.

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First appearance

For Wikipedia's 10th birthday, on January 15, 2011, the TFA slot displayed a featured topic (Wikipedia:Featured topics/Guadalcanal Campaign), as well as a featured list and a featured sound.

A later idea

In 2014, there was a suggestion by Nergaal to have a link within the TFA blurb to a featured topic of which the TFA was a part. This idea received support and was implemented. The first featured topic link was to Wikipedia:Featured topics/Maya Angelou autobiographies, as part of the TFA blurb for All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, on July 4, 2014. The first featured topic link within the "Today's Featured List" section was Wikipedia:Featured topics/Battlecruisers of the world, as part of the blurb for List of sunken battlecruisers on September 26, 2014.

Within TFAs, featured topic links are generated by {{TFATOPIC}}, which can take up to two parameters as follows:

• {{TFATOPIC|Saffron}}

Part of the Saffron featured topic.

• {{TFATOPIC|Solar System|Jupiter}}

Part of the Solar System and Jupiter featured topics.

Within TFLs, featured topic links are generated by |topic1= and |topic2= within the TFL template. The displayed text is the same as for {{TFATOPIC}}.

Appearances

Date	TFA or TFL	Article	First featured topic	Second featured topic	Views
January 15, 2011	IAR	Wikipedia's tenth anniversary	Guadalcanal Campaign	–	20454
July 4, 2014	TFA	All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes	Maya Angelou autobiographies	–	1188
July 19, 2014	TFA	McDonald's Cycle Center	Millennium Park	–	1061
July 23, 2014	TFA	Alaska-class cruiser	Battlecruisers of the world	–	16609
July 28, 2014	TFA	SMS Goeben	Battlecruisers of Germany	–	5155
August 11, 2014	TFA	Hurricane John (1994)	Category 5 Pacific hurricanes	–	2274
August 16, 2014	TFA	Aston Villa F.C.	Aston Villa F.C.	–	627
August 27, 2014	TFA	ARA Rivadavia	South American dreadnought race	Rivadavia-class battleships	5175 & 1879
September 14, 2014	TFA	SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II	Battleships of Germany	–	6144
September 22, 2014	TFA	System Shock	Looking Glass Studios video games	–	2253
September 24, 2014	TFA	Transandinomys bolivaris	Transandinomys	–	1192
September 26, 2014	TFL	List of sunken battlecruisers	Battlecruisers of the world	–	3533
October 3, 2014	TFA	Meerkat Manor	Meerkat Manor	–	1033
October 5, 2014	TFA	Mom & Me & Mom	Maya Angelou autobiographies	–	1173
October 6, 2014	TFA	Mascarene martin	Phedina	–	600
October 11, 2014	TFA	Battle of Cape Esperance	Guadalcanal Campaign	–	2452
October 13, 2014	TFA	Capitol Loop	Interstate 96	–	2564
October 27, 2014	TFL	World Series Most Valuable Player Award	Major League Baseball awards	–	362
November 16, 2014	TFA	Hurricane Claudette (2003)	2003 Atlantic hurricane season	–	1308
November 21, 2014	TFA	Sega 32X	Sega Genesis	–	3268
November 27, 2014	TFA	Freedom from Want (painting)	Four Freedoms	–	4498
December 14, 2014	TFA	Quainton Road railway station	Brill Tramway	–	1537
December 23, 2014	TFA	1995 Pacific hurricane season	1995 Pacific hurricane season	–	1566
December 26, 2014	TFL	Moons of Jupiter	Jupiter	–	605
December 27, 2014	TFA	Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes series	Australian cricket team in England in 1948	–	684
December 30, 2014	TFA	Thief II: The Metal Age	Looking Glass Studios video games	–	2688
January 2, 2015	TFL	List of emperors of the Han dynasty	Han dynasty	–	474
January 12, 2015	TFA	No. 1 Squadron RAAF	No. 90 (Composite) Wing RAAF	–	1400
January 22, 2015	TFA	Union Films	Union Films	–	669
January 24, 2015	TFA	Thomas Blamey	Command in the South West Pacific Area	–	1405
February 11, 2015	TFA	Final Fantasy VIII	Final Fantasy VIII	–	1702
February 18, 2015	TFA	SMS Bayern	Battleships of Germany	–	7433
February 24, 2015	TFA	Oryzomys	Oryzomys	–	593
March 17, 2015	TFA	Audie Murphy	Audie Murphy	–	2372
March 19, 2015	TFA	Brill railway station	Brill Tramway	–	1447
March 20, 2015	TFL	Hugo Award for Best Novel	Hugo Awards	–	530
March 21, 2015	TFA	Tosa-class battleship	Tosa-class battleships	–	1325
March 22, 2015	TFA	God of War (video game)	God of War franchise	–	1624
April 10, 2015	TFA	Sale, Greater Manchester	Towns in Trafford	–	1781
April 16, 2015	TFA	Vernon Sturdee	Command in the South West Pacific Area	–	2924
April 18, 2015	TFA	Hurricane Erika (1997)	1997 Atlantic hurricane season	–	1374
May 17, 2015	TFA	Rivadavia-class battleship	Rivadavia-class battleships	South American dreadnought race	2260 & 3459
June 7, 2015	TFA	Flight Unlimited	Looking Glass Studios video games	–	1725
June 11, 2015	TFA	Underground Electric Railways Company of London	Underground Electric Railways Company of London	–	2567
June 17, 2015	TFA	AMX-30E	Spanish Tanks	–	?
June 20, 2015	TFA	God of War: Betrayal	God of War franchise	–	1067
June 26, 2015	TFA	Stanley Savige	Command in the South West Pacific Area	–	1408
July 4, 2015	TFA	United States Bicentennial coinage	United States Bicentennial coinage	–	856
July 9, 2015	TFA	Corn crake	Crex	–	763
July 14, 2015	TFA	Pluto	Dwarf planets	–	2803
July 24, 2015	TFL	List of Sega 32X games	Sega Genesis	–	515
July 24, 2015	TFA	M-28 Business (Ishpeming–Negaunee, Michigan)	M-28	–	1421
August 8, 2015	TFA	SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm	Battleships of Germany	–	4081
August 11, 2015	TFA	Arbiter (Halo)	Characters of Halo	–	1714
September 4, 2015	TFL	Theatre productions of Dan Leno	Dan Leno on stage and record	–	285
September 10, 2015	TFA	Minas Geraes-class battleship	Minas Geraes-class battleships	South American dreadnought race	1889 & 3234
September 14, 2015	TFL	Nebula Award for Best Novella	Nebula Award	–	752
September 23, 2015	TFA	Actions along the Matanikau	Guadalcanal Campaign	–	3457
October 8, 2015	TFA	Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano	Yamato-class battleships	–	4987
October 10, 2015	TFA	U.S. Route 41 Business (Marquette, Michigan)	M-28	–	803
October 19, 2015	TFL	List of mathematicians, physicians, and scientists educated at Jesus College, Oxford	Jesus College, Oxford	–	732
October 30, 2015	TFL	List of World Series champions	Major League Baseball awards	–	399
November 5, 2015	TFA	Mackensen-class battlecruiser	Battlecruisers of the world	–	7371
November 6, 2015	TFA	Master System	Sega video game consoles	–	2623
November 18, 2015	TFA	African crake	Crex	–	709
November 20, 2015	TFL	List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures)	National Treasures of Japan	–	862
November 25, 2015	TFA	Ron Hamence with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948	Australian cricket team in England in 1948	–	1222
November 27, 2015	TFA	Almirante Latorre-class battleship	South American dreadnought race	–	2307
December 18, 2015	TFA	Interstate 496	Interstate 96	–
December 23, 2015	TFA	Tropical Storm Edouard (2002)	2002 Atlantic hurricane season	–
January 1, 2016	TFL	List of awards and nominations received by Vidya Balan	Vidya Balan	–
January 6, 2016	TFA	Freedom of Worship (painting)	Four Freedoms	–
January 17, 2016	TFA	Gather Together in My Name	Maya Angelou autobiographies	–
January 19, 2016	TFA	Arthur Morris	Australian cricket team in England in 1948	–
January 22, 2016	TFA	HMS Agincourt (1913)	South American dreadnought race	–
February 5, 2016	TFA	HMS Courageous (50)	Battlecruisers of the world	–
February 12, 2016	TFA	Alpine chough	Chough	–
February 14, 2016	TFA	Asmara Moerni	Union Films	–
February 25, 2016	TFA	African river martin	River martin	–
March 6, 2016	TFA	Iven Mackay	Command in the South West Pacific Area	–
March 9, 2016	TFA	Anfield	Liverpool F.C.	–
March 18, 2016	TFA	Quietly Confident Quartet	Quietly Confident Quartet	–

Statistics

The featured topic subpages generally receive under 100 views per day. The views listed above (obtained with the tool hosted at http://stats.grok.se/) are very much above that, with a median of upwards of 2000 views. It is likely that most of these in turn lead to a similar increase of viewership in the other articles listed within the topic.