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| Awarded by co-founderJimmy Wales |
| Awards by WikiProject |
| Barnstars and other personal awards |
| Awards by number of edits |
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TheW Awards are elite accolades recognizing the highest ability to bring content to the masses. The original Golden W means that you've had content in all of the original areas of theMain Page:Today's featured article,In the news...,Did you know...,On this day..., andToday's featured picture. The Golden W predates the 2011 main page expansion plans by over a year, with only one recipient (TonyTheTiger) in that time. In 2011, bothWP:FLs andWP:FSs were accepted to be added to the main page. FS eventually went inactive and never made it to the main page, butWP:TAFI was briefly added to the main page in 2013. As of 2024, TAFI was removed from the main page and was replaced with theWP:GA sector of Wikipedia (even though GAs are not featured on the main page, they still give more information to teach others).
For each of the main page areas, you must have been a major editor of the article or a major participant in the article's nomination for that area as applicable (POTD has no nomination and OTD has a sort of submission process for hooks that get evaluated). The purpose of this award is to teach and give information to others by getting things featured onto theMain Page.
Content does not have to be featured at the time of the nomination and if it loses featured status after the award, the award status is unaffected because this award recognizes the achievement of the main page appearance rather than the featured content itself. You must document that you have made a successful contribution to each section of the main page, not that the content currently is featured.
Read the criteria below for achieving the awards. If you believe you meet the requirements, you may apply for this award at§ Current nominations.
This list highlights each of the awards and what is needed for it's nomination.
| Award image | Award | Needed for nomination |
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 | Bronze W Award | An article featured at Today's featured article and 5 DYKs featured on the main pageOR an article featured at Today's featured list and 5 DYKs featured on the main page. |
 | Silver W Award | An article featured at Today's featured article, an article featured at Today's featured list, and a photograph you created or nominated at Picture of the day. |
 | Golden W Award | An article featured at Today's Featured Article, one featured on In The News, one featured in DYK, one featured in the On This Day, a picture featured on Picture of the day. |
 | Platinum W Award | Everything in the Golden Wtwice, have two articles at Today's featured list, and any 2 articles featured (except a Featured Article) be a good article. |
This list shows the criteria and it's description for what it is. This is what is needed to be given any of the above awards.
| You must have an article that you created and/or significantly improved and nominated forFeatured Article be displayed in theToday's Featured Article or at theMain Page. |  |
| You must have an article that you created and/or substantially updated and nominated forIn the News appear at theMain Page in that section, with you being credited. |  |
| You must have an article that you started and expanded fivefold be displayed at theMain Page as aDid You Know..., with you being credited. |  |
| You must have an article that you created or significantly improved and nominated forOn This Day displayed on theMain Page. |  |
| You must have a picture that you uploaded or nominated forFeatured Picture be displayed in thePicture of the Day on theMain Page. |  |
| You must have an article that you created and/or significantly improved and nominated forFeatured list be displayed in theToday's Featured List or at theMain Page. |  |
| Have any of the articles featured on theMain Page (other than Featured Article) be agood article at the time of the GA nomination. |  |
| BONUS: Have anyFeatured Topic featured on theMain Page |  |
Before nominating, please read the nomination process atWikipedia:W Awards/Nominations
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| Awarded by co-founderJimmy Wales |
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| Barnstars and other personal awards | |
| Awards by number of edits | |
| See also | |
