Hi, Someone could help me with featured articles ?, I need to put them on my main page but I do not know how
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Wikipedia apparently transcludes (onto the main page) the featured articles from other Wikipedia pages of the form: Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 27, 2017
where the date changes automatically everyday by the usage of the template: {{Wikipedia:Today's featured list/{{#time:F j, Y}}}}.
Apparently, these featured articles are readied as subpages to the "Wikipedia:Today's featured article
" page, about 15-16 days before their publication on the main page.
Then all the pages are predefined? so to speak
What you see on the Wikipedia main page is sort of a re-wrtten summary of the article. This re-written summary is apparently placed as a subpage of "Wikipedia:Today's featured list" (~15 days before its presentation date on Wikipedia main page) where it is edited and improved upon until the reserved date.
So yes, this is a very much a curated set of content requiring a lot of manual labor. It's not automated in any way, other than having the template know where to look for each days' fragment.
Thank you