Thread:Merrystar/@comment-4146635-20120630181802/@comment-11001-20120707045425

Mathmagician is correct. And it's not about "favoring" a wiki, but rather about promoting wikis they think have current interest. Katy Perry is in the news a lot at the moment, so the wiki is spotlighted. Originally staff chose all the spotlights. But they recognized that there was no way they could highlight all the cool stuff people have done, so they set up the requests as well.

We don't get nearly as many requests as we have spotlights, so it's not like the staff ones "squeeze out" the requests.

Your wiki will get spotlighted if it meets all the spotlight criteria. Is there some reason you need the spotlight up in a hurry?