Halopedia talk:Featured/Article


 * hey there, not sure if there is a place I can talk to all of you about this (if so let me know) but while you are revamping FA's would it be possible to adopt the new FA system we are promoting. I created a page that describes the process and copied it here- Featured article process. Wowwiki Mass Effect, Tabula Rasa, and Call of Duty are all using it and we are hoping to get all gaming wikis to use this. The benefits are being able to send this content out to partners (i.e Gamespot, Curse) via an api feed. angies (talk) 18:53, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

So instead of the having the breif section about the FA on the front page we put that onto a seperate page? This seems all very overly nessacary....--Ajax 013 20:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, you would write a snippet for each featured article on a separate page and then just reference the template (i.e  ) on the main page to pull in the for the teaser text (so you can switch them out or rotate them easier). This will keep a record so you don't have to re-write it if you want to feature it again in the future.


 * Second benefit is so that other site will be able to pull the featured articles into a feed using our api. Gamespot wants a feed of Halo's Featured Articles (with teaser snippets and pictures)but they can't get one right now. This is prob the major reason for having the separate pages for each article angies (talk) 20:55, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Just wish to agree with Angie here - I work with Wikia on their gaming wikis, and came to them from WoWWiki. Having featured article snippets can really help cut down on the work of featuring, and (if you wish) allow you to feature articles more frequently). Kirkburn (talk) 20:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)