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Finally getting of Elminster's mug on the main page every day for years, I went and created a template for featured images on the main page for all to see. You can see it at Template:Featured image, and in operation at User:BadCatMan/Main Page. There should be a new image every week, and when we fill them up, every day. When we get more than that, we could make them cycle more frequently or randomly. (I pinched the code from another wiki. Meh.)

I've written some guidelines at the documentation. They should be good, clear, interesting images, with full information, showing things from the Forgotten Realms, either in-universe or as book covers and the like. Unlike Featured Articles and Sources, Featured Images are open to everyone to fill up. Unless they get vandalised, then we'll see.

You might like to pick an image corresponding to events in the On This Day feature. That could be interesting.

So, start picking out images you like and setting them up. If it works, we'll put in on the main page. Let me know if you have any queries or suggestions.

— BadCatMan (talk) 08:05, April 11, 2014 (UTC)


More variety on the Main Page! I like it. For those who want to place an image with a particular {{On this day}} entry, I have generated a cross reference between Gregorian dates and Harptos dates that will make it easier to place a related image on the same day as the factoid that it references. See User:Moviesign/Featured image dates for non-leap years.
Moviesign (talk) 02:05, April 12, 2014 (UTC)


Now, can you correlate Earth's leap-years with Toril's Shieldmeet years for On This Day and Featured Images to agree? :)

We could also pick images from new articles featured in Did You Know. Although we're kind of limited to 365/366 Featured Images with a daily changeover, they could be removed and changed as desired.

— BadCatMan (talk) 02:43, April 12, 2014 (UTC)


Do you mean you want new logic in the Featured Image template that compensates for leap years? I can probably do that.
Moviesign (talk) 04:16, April 12, 2014 (UTC)


No, just messing with you. I would have simply numbered each featured image by the day of the year, but there wasn't a MediaWiki "magic word" for a number of the day of the year. Hence the trickier day and month format I borrowed from another wiki. Looking back, I could have tried adapting your {{FR date}} code for it. Maybe I'll try that another time.
— BadCatMan (talk) 04:27, April 12, 2014 (UTC)
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