Featured articles are articles that are notorious for their quality and importance. They should be complete in content, well written, follow the policies and interesting enough to be put on the front page. They should also have a very minimal amount of tasks that need to be done, and should not be about spoiler-heavy subjects.
This page contains instructions on how to make and use features. To nominate an article to become a featured article, use Pikipedia:Featured articles/nominations.
Previous featured articles
Since the introduction of featuring articles without the use of a rotation, the following articles have been featured:
- Perplexing Pool
- March 30th, 2008 – April 18th, 2008
- 7-day run Pikmin 2
- April 18th, 2008 – May 13th, 2008
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- May 13th, 2008 – June 10th, 2008
- Scale
- June 10th, 2008 – 2008 29 Augustth
- The Ship
- August 29th, 2008 – October 3rd, 2008
- Figwort
- October 3rd, 2008 – December 3rd, 2008
- Bulbmin
- December 3rd, 2008 – January 26th, 2009
- Caustic Dweevil
- January 26th, 2009 – May 6th, 2009
- Beady Long Legs
- May 6th, 2009 – June 18th, 2009
- Wistful Wild
- June 18th, 2009 – August 18th, 2009
- Planet of the Pikmin
- August 18th, 2009 – March 24th, 2010
- Waterwraith
- March 24th, 2010 – September 23rd, 2010
- 2-Player Battle
- September 23rd, 2010 – February 23rd, 2011
- Purple Pikmin
- February 23rd, 2011 – April 12th, 2011
- Smoky Progg
- April 12th, 2011 – August 19th, 2011
- Mamuta
- August 19th, 2011 – March 16th, 2012
- Brute Knuckles
- March 16th, 2012 – May 23rd, 2012
- Burrowing Snagret
- May 23rd, 2012 – March 18th, 2013
- Gate
- March 18th, 2013 – June 21st, 2013
- Onion
- June 21st, 2013 – December 25th, 2014
- Carrying
- December 25th, 2014 – March 1st, 2015
- Prototype Detector
- March 1st, 2015 – June 1st, 2015
- Arctic Cannon Larva
- June 1st, 2015 – August 15th, 2015
Changing the featured article
To update the featured article, you must:
- Update the previous featured article to have the end date in the "featured" template, in the form {{featured|start date|end date}}. Move this to the bottom of the page, but keep it above any footer.
- Add the Featured template to the top of the main article of the new feature, including the date, in the form {{featured|date}} (read the template documentation for more details).
- Update the Previous featured articles section of this page.
- Move the nomination on the nominations page to the archive.
- Update Template:Feature. Copy a few of the introductory paragraphs from the article and an image, if at all possible.