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Today's featured list

This star symbolizes the featured content on Wikipedia.
This star symbolizes the featured content on Wikipedia.

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, July 1)

Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr.

Many actors have appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's "Infinity Saga", part of a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of the first 23 superhero films produced by Marvel Studios, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. As the Saga is composed of films adapted from a variety of Marvel Comics properties, there are multiple lead actors, including Samuel L. Jackson, who portrayed Nick Fury, as well as Robert Downey Jr. (pictured), Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, and Scarlett Johansson, who played the original six members of the Avengers. Other actors who were leads in various films in the Saga include Chris Pratt, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, and Brie Larson, while Josh Brolin played Thanos, who was the overarching villain of the Saga. (Full list...)

From the next featured list (Friday, July 5)

The first game by Looking Glass Studios, an American video game developer, was Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss in 1992, which received widespread critical acclaim and sold nearly 500,000 units. Looking Glass proceeded to develop titles in multiple genres, including role-playing, sports, flight simulation, and stealth video games. These titles were primarily published by Origin Systems, Electronic Arts and Eidos Interactive, with three titles self-published by Looking Glass Studios. Looking Glass' products were praised for innovations in video game technology and design. Several of their successes, such as Flight Unlimited and Thief: The Dark Project, sold over half a million copies each. Its final project, Jane's Attack Squadron, was completed by Mad Doc Software and released by Xicat Interactive in 2002. In total, Looking Glass Studios released 12 original games in its 10 years of activity, alongside several ports and other spin-offs. (Full list...)