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What is the rationale for ordering of the bullets within each featured content section? Does not seem to be alphabetical. Nor in notability order, when the first article out of the gate is "rather obscure".TCO (reviews needed) 16:31, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- How can you order a list of articles by notability? Juliancolton (talk) 17:15, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Sometimes the obscure is the most interesting. We try not to order them consciously—often the order is according to chronological (or reverse chronological) promotion; occasionally I put the item related to the uppermost pic first. Tony (talk) 17:22, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Interestingness is a good way to order. Maybe alpha just makes most sense, if you are not going to group and arrange each week. Order within the week seems low value.
- I can't imagine a more boring way to organize the week's progress in recognizing our best articles than bulleting them alphabetically... Juliancolton (talk) 17:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- I agree that "interestingness" is a better parameter. Perhaps "like with like" (implicit categories) makes sense. I think order promoted during the week is even worse than alpha though. At least alpha has some navigational benefit for the eye...TCO (reviews needed) 17:33, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Interestingness? Who's going to decide which article is most interesting? Juliancolton (talk) 17:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- And I can't imagine a more demoralizing virtual sight than seeing my hard work being classified as the most boring article of the week. Juliancolton (talk) 17:40, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Interestingness? Who's going to decide which article is most interesting? Juliancolton (talk) 17:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- I agree that "interestingness" is a better parameter. Perhaps "like with like" (implicit categories) makes sense. I think order promoted during the week is even worse than alpha though. At least alpha has some navigational benefit for the eye...TCO (reviews needed) 17:33, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- I can't imagine a more boring way to organize the week's progress in recognizing our best articles than bulleting them alphabetically... Juliancolton (talk) 17:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Interestingness is a good way to order. Maybe alpha just makes most sense, if you are not going to group and arrange each week. Order within the week seems low value.
- Sometimes the obscure is the most interesting. We try not to order them consciously—often the order is according to chronological (or reverse chronological) promotion; occasionally I put the item related to the uppermost pic first. Tony (talk) 17:22, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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