Without using a wiki-bot how often do you want a Featured Article.  Once a month would be easy to do.  In fact once a week would not be too hard.  We could have guidelines concerning length and relevance. I'll put together some ideas for Friday's meeting.

Actually it is next week meeting where we may touch on it a little, but keep in mind we have a lot of other items to get through and will have a very occupied meeting. I did this a while baco, but had no participation and was beginning to take longer to maintain. A monthly basis would do.

Actually I am also not opposed to making this is a thing that is not decided on Admin Meetings but by the community directly. Rather making the ruleset at a meeting we can do it here. I  propose it would be a monthly program where community members can nominate an article if they feel necessary. Then nominees are voted upon and the winning article has a piece features on the main page with a link and has facts about the subject of the article posted daily for at least 3 days on social media. 

Articles would need to be at least 6 paragraphs, and not be marked for cleanup, a stub etc. Once an article is FA it would not be allowed to be featured for a minimum of 6 months. The thing I would would need input on is tiebreakers.

I do think and will say as an Admin that even after we decide on rules, we will most likely not implement mit until we have enough people involved. SouthWriter and I are working on building a community and are planning promotional and involved activities related to content on the wiki.

Until then, to save energy that can be used on editing articles, is it possible to do this manually? Like with the use of a bot. Saves us time and energy. Can it be done? If so, should we do it?

Its not that tedious (especially since there are two admins) but I think it would take more time than what it would be worth for the amount of people that would vote and nominate. I can tell you are anxious and excited about it, and I myself am anxious about a lot of the ideas that SouthWriter and I have. A lot of them we want to discuss privately as we don't want to promise a lot of thigns that we may or may not do. 

This would be something that would be difficult to automate with a bot, and wouldn't be tedious enough to spend enough technical skill (beyond a lot of people on wikia) to be able to produce a script that bot can run to do this. 

Oh. Okay so it wouldn't be worth the effort?

Not NOW but hopefully very SOON. But it doesn't hurt to have policy already decided upon

Supe is right, it probably should be on merit, meaning based on articles that are complete with all the elements one would expect.  This would include infoboxes.  I was thinking that a bot should be able to chose one randomly without too many problems, at least until we have built up a community.

However, that requires skills that I do not have!  One thing that comes to mind is this: using the featured article to draw in more visitors.  We could even use it as an incentive to new editors to become featured editors, using a byline at the bottom (not wanting to draw too much attention to ourselves!).  Current stubs would be credited to those who bring them "up to code" rather than those who placed the stub in the first place.  Administrators could assign credit based on the history.

Doing that, we could also limit votes to those who have been part of the community for a minimum time.  In doing that, we would encourage new editors to hone their skills and work towards a knowledge of the wiki as a whole (for such a time that they could vote).  This should not keep an article by a new editor from being chosen by voting members, since a simple rule of not voting for yourself could be in place.

That is what I was thinking, but you added some good details there south.

If this idea is being brought up I would also think re-enabling Achivements may be a possibility. The problem is they are tedious in customizing, and we would have to ensure that Achivements do not create "compettion" rather than "cooperation". I personally don't like the idea of a featured editor for the type of wiki we are in general, not just the size.

I think it would be difficult to create a a bot that can do so, and be worth the effort and time for random articles.We don't need a huge community for FA but I think maybe 2 or 3 more people willing to be active so we can get a balanced number. Hysterically for me since I will most likely post the threads for FA I will get the chance (not in the original post by in a reply so I am not cheating too much) to post my nomination first, making other ones less likely to be nominated!