Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria

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A featured portal has the following attributes:

1. It exemplifies our very best work, representing Wikipedia's unique qualities on the Internet.
2. It showcases the best of Wikipedia's content for a particular area and encourages contribution to that area.
3. It is useful, attractive, ergonomic, and well-maintained:
   1. Useful: A useful portal covers a topic that is both broad and interesting to the readers. Portals that cover minor topic areas are less useful, because their content is usually limited. A featured portal covers an area that is sufficiently broad and prominent to justify it as an entry-point. Because portals promote the best of Wikipedia's content, featured portals are selective in what they display. They showcase only high quality content that is preferably already featured.
   2. Attractive: An attractive portal displays Wikipedia's content in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The colours are coherent and complementary, and do not detract from the content. Featured portals do not have formatting faults. Red links must be limited and restricted to aspects that encourage contribution.
   3. Ergonomic: An ergonomic portal is coherently constructed to display Wikipedia's content logically and effectively, and in ways that enhance usefulness and attractiveness. This display is the primary aim, and encouraging contribution is secondary.
   4. Well-maintained: A well-maintained portal is updated regularly to display different aspects of Wikipedia's content in an area. Featured portals may be designed to reduce the required frequency of updating; however, they may be designed to have a higher turnover of content with structures to ensure regular updates (e.g., WikiProjects). Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted.
4. It adheres to the standards in the Manual of Style and relevant WikiProjects. This includes conventions on naming, spelling and style. See Portal and Portal guidelines.
5. It has images where appropriate, with good captions and acceptable copyright status.
6. It is not self-referential; i.e., it does not speak of itself beyond (if at all) a welcome note. Aspects of portals that encourage contribution may be self-referential.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:What is a featured article?
• Wikipedia:What is a featured list?
• Wikipedia:What is a featured picture?

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