Comment by kibwen
1 day ago
Last 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.
1 day ago
Last 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.
Could well be manually added.
Take a look!
* 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
You can have snippets like this
* 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%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.