Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-01-31/Featured content

Featured content

New Year, same Featured Content report!

Oh, hello! This spinyhead blenny, by q-phia is one of the "newest" (19 December) featured pictures, and is utterly adorable.

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 12 December through 31 December. Quotes are generally from the articles, but may be abridged or simplified for length. Oh, and specifically for this issue, I had to borrow from the actor bios to summarise the filmographies, because actor bios can summarise because there's more text after the lead, whereas lists promptly turn into giant tables of data once the lead's done.

New year, same pandemic as well... I hope I can change out this illustration soon.

Well! A new year is upon us, so let's finish up the dregs of last year's featured content processes - we have to work a bit behind publication so that I can get this done in advance and not have to plan my life around finishing up the article on a specific date - and hope that that old cove, COVID-19, stops being just the worst guest and goes away soon. (As I keep saying: Stay safe, and look after yourselves, aye?)

I'm afraid I must confess to an error in the last report: the Royal Artillery Memorial was briefly miscredited: It should have said it was nominated by both Hchc2009 and HJ Mitchell. This is the problem with making these reports entirely by hand. Always plenty of room for error. I also failed to make the all-but-necessary joke for the article "Blank Space" until the second day of publication, which was also a mistake. I must do better. We'll deal with my other big mistake at the appropriate time, which is later in this report.

Speaking of which - and maybe this says more about what I listen to in the background when editing here than being a universal truth - but, ever notice all the podcasts and videos and such that tell you that if you like it, you can get more of the same by subscribing? ...Always thought you can do that much better by hitting replay. Or by having each bit of content posted to the podcast or Youtube channel or Featured Content Report be a repeat of the last one. No... um... reason for bringing that up.

Anyway! 2021 is upon us, and it's time to start a new year of Wikipedia. They do say that stating your intent can be helpful in getting things done, so my goal is to finally reach 100 featured pictures in a single year. We'll see how well I do with that. Feel free to state your Wikigoals (Which sounds like a new Wikimedia project. Would make New Year's resolutions far easier to achieve if you could edit them later...) in the comments below.

-Adam