Board Thread:Community Discusson/@comment-31246436-20160105144449/@comment-1777104-20160108170648

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.