Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4738647-20130406114842/@comment-3335785-20130406151941

On RuneScape Wiki, we hardcode featured articles into a template which is transcluded onto the main page. When I add them I typically add the first paragraph, de-link it and find a suitable image to compliment it.

As there are so many we use choose tags to randomly select a featured article, again the options are hardcoded in, but as they don't change very often it's not really necessary. More information on choose tags can be seen here (it's not what's used on Wikia to my knowledge but the syntax is the same).