Wikipedia: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. The current month's queue can be found here. 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 here.
Further suggestions on how you can participate can be found here.
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From the previous featured list (Monday, November 11)
There were eleven emperors of the Yuan dynasty, an imperial dynasty of China, from 1271 to 1368. Proclaimed on 18 December 1271 by Kublai Khan (pictured), the Yuan dynasty succeeded the Song dynasty and preceded the Ming dynasty. The list of emperors includes both Kublai's successors as rulers of China and his predecessors up to his grandfather Genghis Khan, who was retrospectively presented as the founder of the dynasty. Yuan rulers were nominally superior to those of the other three post-Mongol states, but each was de facto independent of the others and occupied with their own territories. Although the reigns of Kublai and his successor Temür were generally peaceful, weaknesses in the Yuan administration later became apparent and led to a gradual breakdown of political stability. By the mid-14th century, the Yuan state became impossible to govern, and in 1368 the last emperor, Toghon Temür, was forced to flee China. (Full list...)
From today's featured list (Friday, November 15)
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The Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Music Video is an award presented annually by CJ E&M (Mnet) at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. The event was launched in 1999 as the Mnet Video Music Awards and was primarily a music video–centered awards ceremony, modeled after the MTV Video Music Awards. In 1999, the inaugural Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Music Video was presented to Lee Seung-hwan for the video "A Request". Among artists who have received the accolade more than once, BTS (pictured) holds the distinction for the most wins in the category, winning for five consecutive years between 2017 and 2021. Four artists have won the award twice: BigBang, Psy, 2NE1, and Blackpink. BTS, in addition, has received the most nominations in the category with six. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Monday, November 18)
Twenty-eight Swiss nationals have been honored with the Nobel Prize (pictured). Additionally, two laureates acquired Swiss citizenship through naturalization after the award: Wolfgang Pauli and Jack Steinberger. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The first Nobel Prize for Peace, awarded in 1901, went to the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant. The latest Swiss laureates are Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019. The 28 prizes are distributed as follows: nine for medicine, seven for chemistry, seven for physics, three for peace, and two for literature. (Full list...)