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==How to become a featured wiki page==</noinclude>
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'''Nominating''' [[WikiWiki|wiki]] pages (which could be about websites, people, portal pages or any non-domain specific page) to be [[Featured|featured]] on [[AboutUs]] is a simple process:
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* Just polish up a page. Pointers and tips can be found here: [[Portal:AboutUsFeatureMe/Tips|FeatureMe Tips]], [[How to improve website pages]] and [[Adding and working with pictures]].
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* Click this button and then type in the page title you want nominate:
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==How to become a featured wiki page==
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Nominating [[WikiWiki|wiki]] articles (which could be about websites, users, portal pages or any non-domain specific page) to be [[Featured|featured]] on [[AboutUs]] is a simple process:
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# Just polish up an article page. Pointers and tips can be found here: [[How to improve website pages]] and [[Adding and working with pictures]].
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==Related Information==
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# Add the following code into the article at the bottom of the page (just before the "Related Domains" section): <nowiki>{{subst:FeatureMe}}</nowiki>
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* To see a list of [[WikiPages]] that have been nominated to be featured, see [[FeatureMePotentials]].
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* View the [[:Category:AboutUs Featured Site|Archive of Featured Sites]] to see what types of site we've previously featured.
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That's it. Any problems, please [[ContactUs]]. We'll help you through the process.
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* For more on the nuts and bolts of how the [[featured]] process works, check out [[FeatureMeProcess]].
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===How it works===
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The <nowiki>{{subst:FeatureMe}}</nowiki> tag allows the [[AboutUs]] community to find and comment on these article pages.
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The idea with the nomination system is to generate discussion about a specific [[WikiWiki|wiki]] article page and to provide pointers to help users polish their pages with the hopes of becoming a [[Featured]] article. We'll be reviewing these discussions and [[Feature|featuring]] pages as we go. Of course, this isn't a perfect science, so some sites might get a general "go ahead" from the community and not get featured for awhile. Other sites might get featured sooner. While we can't necessarily feature every single page, we will get to as many as we can. If you feel your site's been languishing in a "ready state" for a while, just hold on and know that if you've created a great [[WikiWiki|wiki]] page we'll find it eventually.
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===Community discussion points===
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Notes from the community should be constructive with the ultimate goal of not necessarily creating a site that is going to be [[Featured]], but the goal of creating a dynamite page with great value to the community.
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These notes might be:
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* Great! Looks like a promising [[Featured]] page
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* Looks good, but could use some work. Here's some pointers...
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And so on. For a list of wiki pages currently under-discussion, see [[FeatureMePotentials]]
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===General tips for polishing your page===
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Here are some elements of a great [[WikiWiki|wiki]] article your page might want to incorporate:
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* a logo
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* a couple of other images (product photos, screen shots or related art)
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* background history on the website
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* description of the site
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You can also view the [[:Category:AboutUs Featured Site|Archive of Featured Sites]] to see what types of site we've previously featured.
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===Add your thoughts to nominated pages===
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Community members are welcome to look at various pages that have been nominated and leave notes in the discussion on the worthiness of the nomination. Please keep comments constructive, eg. "Wow, this is great, how about adding a screenshot to really top it off," or "I love what you did with the testimonials. Great page!"
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While the list of [[FeatureMePotentials|potential featured sites]] is broken down by month, feel free to comment on any actively discussed [[FeatureMePotentials|nominees]].
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==Discussion==
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It would be a much easier if you created a directory instead of a long list of sites. That way users can find the site that is most relevent. i.e. [[findamob.com]] would be listed in the catagory '''price comparison''' or '''mobile phone''' [[User:Pacepowerskill|Pacepowerskill]]
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* That we make this function a category one and move away from the list, at least for nominating sites. For the Features Sites that we do list, maybe we can say what caught our eye? [[User talk:MarkDilley|MarkDilley, <small>leave messages here</small>]]
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** I think that this new system (as of 27-Feb-2007) might be addressing these problems/suggestions. By using the <nowiki>{{subst:FeatureMe}}</nowiki>, we're creating a category-like system that's not a massively impersonal list, more over this provides ways for the community to make notes about what they like as well as areas for improvement to potential featured sites. If you feel this system still isn't perfect, please drop another note here. --[[User:TakKendrick|TakKendrick]] 19:26, 27 February 2007 (PST)
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I just wrote an article on [[Kdice.com]], it is a great site and very addictive. [[User talk:Westerdal]]
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: Thanks for the update. In response, we featured this article on 26 Dec. --[[TakKendrick]]
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I cleaned up the entry for [[RFSHQ.com]]. [[User:Radio F Software|Radio F Software]] 21:49, 5 January 2007 (PST)
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It appears there's a bunch of advertisement websites being put up in this list now, like those pages that are meant to Google snipe and offer nothing. [[User:Radio F Software|Radio F Software]] 15:46, 11 January 2007 (PST)
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* We're trying to figure out how to keep this list cleaned up. I've been trying to weed it out every couple of days, although it has been getting messy. What do people think about [[MarkDilley]]'s suggestion above?--[[TakKendrick]]
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** Again, the hope is the new system will take care of this. It's a little harder to do than "add your name to the list" but is still fairly easy to do and reduces people easily adding all their websites en masse or trying to game our featuring mechanism for some SEO purpose. We also provide a carrot in that fixing up article pages makes them richer for [[Google.com|Google]] indexing (not to mention that being a "featured site" probably helps from a number of SEO angles). --[[User:TakKendrick|TakKendrick]] 19:26, 27 February 2007 (PST)
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Do we have a page where people can nominate really neat sites that may not yet have a well formed AboutUs article? i.e. "it would be great if someone fixed up this page because the website is just too cool". [[Ray]]
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Nominatingwiki pages (which could be about websites, people, portal pages or any non-domain specific page) to be featured on AboutUs is a simple process:
