User:Chris.B/WikiProject Featured Pictures

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Welcome to WikiProject Featured pictures! This WikiProject is designed to maintain the Featured pictures list and oversee all other FP related tasks.


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Featured pictures (shortcut WP:FA) are images that add significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article. Taking the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words," the images featured on Wikipedia:Featured pictures should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article, according to the featured picture criteria.

  1. Keeping the list at WP:FP in order
  2. Voting on and closing nominations at WP:FPC
  3. Review images listed at WP:FPC and give recommendations for consensus
  4. Updating Featured picture statistics
  5. Lining up and coordinating the Main Page Pictures of the Day.

[edit] Picture of the day


Picture of the day
United States Capitol dome, 1846

A daguerreotype of the United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green copper dome as designed by Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white cast iron dome which was completed in 1866.

Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe
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[edit] Useful links
What is a featured picture?
Candidates
Featured pictures
Picture peer review
Graphic Lab

[edit] Structure

A featured picture means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article. It must:

  • of a high technical standard.
  • of high resolution.
  • among Wikipedia's best work.
  • have a free license.
  • adds value to an article.

[edit] Templates

Templates used on WP:FP are the following:

  1. {{FPC}} - added to the image page of featured picture candidates; automatically places them in Category:Wikipedia featured picture candidates
  2. {{FeaturedPicture}} - added to the image page of featured pictures; automatically places them in Category:Wikipedia featured pictures

[edit] Participants

  1. Chris B 16:42, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox and taskbox for participants

Add {{User:Chris.B/User WPFP}} to your userpage to add this userbox -
This user is a member of the Featured pictures WikiProject.



You may also wish to add {{Template:User FP}} to your userpage to add this userbox -
This user has uploaded featured pictures on Wikipedia.


[edit] Categories

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Featured pictures

[edit] Wikipedia articles related to Featured pictures