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I agree, it does seem odd. They do promote bits of their content on the main page, I assume with an algorithm, but it's hardly like a social media feed.
by MattPalmer1086 1y ago
I agree, it does seem odd. They do promote bits of their content on the main page, I assume with an algorithm, but it's hardly like a social media feed.
- kibwen 1y agoLast time I checked, many many years ago, the front page was just an ordinary wiki page like any other, and its content was manually added.
- MattPalmer1086 1y agoCould well be manually added.
- Kim_Bruning 1y agoTake a look! * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=... It's a large number of templates doing transclusions. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion You can have snippets like this * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_12,_2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_a... Which shows up on the main page under featured article, and these pages are prepared by humans Just In Time: * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_12,_2025&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%2... A website where everything happens in public -including all the editing- is still kind of cool and relatively unique, even in 2025!. And most pages are a bit less complicated to handle than this. But the main page obviously gets a lot of attention.