Wikipedia:Today's featured list
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Today's featured list  Today's featured list is a section included on the Main Page on Mondays and on Fridays, in which an introduction to one of Wikipedia's featured lists is displayed. See this month's queue. The lists appearing on the Main Page are scheduled by the featured list director, currently Giants2008. To be eligible to appear on the Main Page, a list must already be featured. For more information on the featured list promotion process, please see the featured list candidates, as well as the featured list criteria. In addition, a blurb is drafted, introducing the subject of the list. Blurbs are roughly 1,000 characters in length, with no reference tags, alternate names or extraneous boldface type, although a link to the specified featured list should be emboldened; a relevant picture is also usually included with the blurb. The previous three lists that were featured on the Main Page appear along the bottom, in reverse chronological order. You can submit a list to be scheduled at the submissions page. At the moment, lists are scheduled by the featured list director or by the featured list delegates, although we will eventually be devising a community-based system for selecting each day's list. We encourage editors to submit and to review as many blurbs as possible. If you notice a problem with an upcoming featured list to appear on the Main Page, please leave a message at the Main Page errors page or on the TFL talk page. Find out more on how to get involved. |
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From the previous featured list (Friday, August 8)
Eighteen competition venues across Singapore were used for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics from 14 to 26 August 2010. To accommodate the 3,600 athletes from 204 different National Olympic Committees, eleven existing sites were used, six temporary sites were built, and one new site was built for permanent use after the Olympics. Organised by the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee after winning the hosting bid in 2008, the Singapore Turf Club was the only venue constructed to host the equestrian events, while others like the Singapore Indoor Stadium and The Float @ Marina Bay (pictured) were upgraded for the Olympics. The largest venue was The Float@Marina Bay (the venue of the opening and closing ceremonies), with seating for 25,000, while the smallest venue was for the archery events at Kallang Field, with seating for 500. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Monday, August 11)
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. Top grandmasters compete in the tournament, but regular club players are welcome to play in the lower groups. The Masters group pits fourteen of the world's best players against each other in a round-robin tournament, and has sometimes been described as the "Wimbledon of Chess". Of the fifteen undisputed World Chess Champions since the first tournament in 1938, only five have not won it. Magnus Carlsen holds the record for most wins at the tournament, with eight. Viswanathan Anand is the only other player to have won the event five or more times, with five titles to his name. R Praggnanandhaa is the defending champion after defeating Gukesh Dommaraju in tiebreaks in 2025. (Full list...)