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Is the Featured Content section ever coming back? GamerPro64 06:37, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

If we can find somebody who would like to write it up every month we'll start it up again. A couple of difficulties that people have found in doing it.

• It's pretty long to write up with text now that we are on a monthly schedule. If we could find a subset of "all things featured" that might make it easier to write up.
• We tried to do it all with images, but that's a lot of images which can mean long loading times and it even gets boring just having so many images.

If anybody can figure a way around these problems, please let us know or just let us know that you'll write it up. Thanks. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 12:03, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

I used to do Featured Content and there isn't a lot of human thought required if there's a concise lede; it's pretty tedious to do the cut-paste to put it together. Image selection for FAs and FLs is a final touch that would require a human, but I bet scripts and/or a bot could probably put most of it together and make the whole job a lot more enjoyable. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:36, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

I wonder if a more intriguing approach for both readers and writers would be a curated set of say 6 to 12 items selected by whoever writes the report, in a similar style to the Traffic report or this issue's Gallery – i.e. something intriguing (and possibly amusing) for each, rather than just a trimmed down lead or file description. The rest of the recently promoted items could just be presented in simple lists - or perhaps even omitted in favour of links to the relevant WP:GO pages - Evad37 [talk] 18:17, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Sounds like your begging for help or your "newspaper" will go out of business. I cannot help in any way but you should not sound so desperate. Eschoryii (talk) 09:04, 5 December 2019 (UTC)