Wikipedia:Today's featured list proposal/Proposal 1

This page is a proposal to institute a List of the Day (WP:LOTD) monthly voting process for daily LOTD inclusion on the main page (the main page would either look like this or this). It is also hoped that this process extends to a List of the Year (WP:LOTY) contest among the single best LOTD of each month, which will be dubbed Lists of the Month (WP:LOTM). The process is quite simple:

1. Featured lists are nominated.
2. Editors vote on nominees.
3. The candidates are promoted, renominated or failed.
4. The promoted candidates are scheduled for the main page.

Any FL (except FLRCs) that has not been a WP:LOTDC or LOTY in the last 12 months may be nominated as a LOTDC for the following month. All nominating users must vote (1st choice-3 points, 2nd-2 pts., 3rd-1 pt.) for three unique articles. Other registered users may also cast three unique votes. Voting runs from the beginning of the month through the twentieth day of the month. The 30 (or 28) top vote getters will be promoted from List of the Day Candidate LOTDC to LOTD. The next 30 will be renominated as LOTDC for the next month. Remaining nominees become failed Lists of the day cadidates, (WP:FLOTDCs), and must wait one year to be eligible for LOTDC status. A 31st exemption will be chosen based on longest tenure on the LOTDC list for 31 day months. Each month's leader, LOTM, will have a link at the bottom of the LOTD section all month. An LOTY will be chosen in a December election of the 12 monthly winners and have a link at the bottom of the LOTD section for the entire year. Similar processes have worked out credibly at Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year Contest and on a smaller scale at WP:CHICAGO's elective process for Category:Top-importance Chicago articles.

The successful LOTDCs will select their own main page dates in the following month’s queue based on their finish in the voting. Date preferences will be awarded. For specific date requests up to 25 characters, such as (24th subject Birthday), (5th War Start), (20th League Championship), & (16th Federal Holiday) are permitted.

Goals

The philosophy is similar to WP:TFA and Wiktionary Featured word candidates. Our goals are as follows

1. to highlight the best of Wikipedias Lists by featuring them on the Main Page,
2. to pique editorial interest in wikipedia lists
3. to nurture people's natural interest in wikipedia as a resource by exposing them to interesting and encyclopedic lists
4. to help readers improve their knowledge base by exposure to such lists
5. to select our candidates equitably so that all concerned have a positive wikipedia experience.

Administrator Duties

Administrators will be involved in the following elements of this process

1. Monitoring formating of nominations
2. Monitoring eligibility of nominees.
3. Handle all vote tallying of single line votes in a composite chart.
4. Police reciprocal voting.
5. Police canvassing.
6. Police block voting by groups (especially wikiprojects).
7. Update log history.
8. Perform image checks.
9. perform talk page updates.
10. perform renomination updates.

Sample Layout

Carryover Nominees

Image	List of the Day Candidate	Nominating User	Date of FL promotion	Nomination (500 characters or less)	Vote Count (by admin.)	Previous LOTD Places (# votes)	WikiProjects
	List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater Manchester	Foo3	2007-07-09	List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater Manchester is a list of SSSIs in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. In England, the SSSI-designating body is Natural England, which chooses sites by their fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features. As of 2006, there are 21 sites designated within this Area of Search, of which 14 have been designated due to their biological interest, 5 due to their geological interest, and 2 for both biological and geological interest. (More...)	8	T39(6) Mar 08 T45(5) Feb 08 T53(4) Jan 08	WP:GM WP:PAREAS
	List of parishes in Louisiana	Foo4	2007-04-18	List of parishes in Louisiana is a list of the 64 parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Parishes are the state division in Louisiana analogous to the way that 48 of the other states of the United States are divided into counties (Alaska is divided into boroughs and census areas). Louisiana was formed from French and Spanish colonies, which were both officially Roman Catholic. Consequently, local government was based upon parishes, as the local ecclesiastical division.(More...)	6	T48(5) Feb 08 T57(4) Jan 08	WP:LOUISIANA

New Nominees

Image	List of the Day Candidate	Nominating User	Date of FL promotion	Nomination (500 characters or less)	Vote Count (by admin.)	WikiProjects
	List of Chicago Landmarks	FooYuOnce	2007-06-30	List of Chicago Landmarks is a list of Chicago or National Historic Landmarks in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Chicago Landmark is a designation of the Mayor of Chicago and the Chicago City Council for historic buildings and other sites selected by criteria, including historical, economic, architectural, artistic, cultural, and social values. A National Historic Landmark is a historically significant building, district, site, structure, or object recognized by the United States government. (More...)	12	WP:CHICAGO WP:Illinois WP:WPARCH WP:NRHP
	List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry	FooYuTwice	2007-03-16	List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry is the registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 aimed to develop a program to guard America's sound recording heritage. It established the Registry to maintain and preserve culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant sound recordings.(more...)	7	WP:SONGS WP:ALBUMS WP:PSP WP:RADIO
	All-Star Final Vote	ShameOnYou	2007-07-28	All-Star Final Vote is an annual internet and text message ballot by Major League Baseball fans to elect the 32nd and final player for each team to participate in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game after all other selections have been made and announced on national television. The number of ballots cast during the four days of All-Star Final Vote balloting rivaled the 11.8 million online ballots cast for the starting lineup over the course of eleven weeks.(more...) (15th All-Star Game)	7	WP:MLB WP:WPIC WP:TEL

Votes

1. List of Foo ZZZ, 2. XXX Discography 3. List YYY – Of the 7 discographies nominated this month XXX’s was at the time of this posting the only one that . . .--ShameonMe 14:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

2. List of Foo ZZZ, 2. XXX Discography 3. List YYY – List YYY would be the first Fooian culture related list ever shown at LOTD.--FooforLove 14:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

3. List of Foo ZZZ, 2. XXX Discography 3. List YYY – This month is XXX’s birthday and I am sympathetic to the date request because this list would be an excellent main page component on that day.--Fooish14:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment I would have voted for List XXX, but it did not. . .--WillWorkForFoo-15:44, 17 October 2007 (UTC)