Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured

Background

This front page feature automatically loads a new host image and name within the Teahouse header on the Q&A front page. It is intended to show a range of the most active hosts that a visitor to the Teahouse might encounter. It was developed by User:Jtmorgan in 2012, who described it as "just another way to make our pages a little more dynamic". It switches every time the page is re-cached on the server, but not every time you hit 'refresh'. A 'Your Hosts' button within the Teahouse Header allows a visitor to view a much longer list of all Teahouse Hosts (which are directly editable here).

At one time, the images available for selection were automatically updated on a weekly basis, based upon editor activity/inactivity. This was done by HostBot, with a script moving hosts from "active" to "inactive" pages. However, unknown bugs in that script occasionally caused problems and deletion of Host entries, so automatic updating was suspended in 2013, though the random selection of Featured Host names and image continues.

Note: The term 'Featured' is used only in the context of this tool. It does not appear on the Teahouse header, nor does it imply any particular badge of merit. It simply attempts to show a changeable set of images reflecting some of the most likely-to-be-encountered host names at the Teahouse.

Updating

By 2019 both the full list of all hosts, as well as this 'Featured Hosts' list had become extremely out of date. Many editors were either inactive at the Teahouse or had left Wikipedia altogether. A review of these lists removed all of the most-inactive host editors (except for the two Teahouse founders) and refreshed this list with the most active ones at that time. This selection is being updated, again as at January 2022.

They are all listed at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured (this page), but each has an individual sub-page entry, numbered from Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured/1 through to Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured/31. These are then randomly selected for display within the Teahouse Header by use of the {{Random subpage}} template.

Manual updating of the 30 Featured Host entries in mid-2019 was based on the most currently active editors, as revealed by an XTools analysis of the last 50,000 Teahouse edits (see here), tempered against an analysis of total edits to the Teahouse by each host, also as revealed byXtools. There is an intentional bias to included active young or female Teahouse Hosts, where known, as both groups are generally under-represented in our editor demographic.

If you have alternate suggestions for how Featured Hosts should operate, please let User:Jtmorgan know and/or start a discussion on the Teahouse Talk page. Please do not attempt to add yourself unilaterally to this feature; discuss changes at WT:TH first, please.

Featured Hosts:

Host number	Displays as	Last updated
1	Cullen328, a Teahouse host	January 31, 2016
2	ColinFine, a Teahouse host	January 31, 2016
3	Tenryuu, a Teahouse host	July 30, 2023
4	331dot, a Teahouse host	July 19, 2019
5	David Biddulph, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
6	Shantavira, a Teahouse host	July 31, 2023
7	GoingBatty, a Teahouse host	November 02, 2021
8	GreenMeansGo, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
9	David notMD, a Teahouse host	June 13, 2019
10	jmcgnh, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
11	Nick Moyes, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
12	PrimeHunter, a Teahouse host	September 08, 2022
13	Marchjuly, a Teahouse host	June 14, 2019
14	Dbfirs, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
15	Maproom, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
16	Gråbergs Gråa Sång, a Teahouse host	January 10, 2020
17	Cordless Larry, a Teahouse host	June 18, 2019
18	RudolfRed, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
19	Bonadea, a Teahouse host	June 13, 2019
20	Tigraan, a Teahouse host	June 19, 2019
21	CiaPan, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
22	つがる, a Teahouse host	May 13, 2021
23	AlanM1, a Teahouse host	November 24, 2019
24	Melecie, a Teahouse host	July 30, 2023
25	Hoary, a Teahouse host	August 02, 2023
26	Stormy clouds, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
27	Finnusertop, a Teahouse host	June 12, 2019
28	Cassiopeia, a Teahouse host	June 11, 2021
29	A lad insane, a Teahouse host	June 13, 2019
30	Eman235, a Teahouse host	August 02, 2019
31	Sdkb, a Teahouse host	August 24, 2021

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