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Featured topics in 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. There are currently 185 featured topics that encompass 1,506 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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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.
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}}.
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.