Wikipedia:W Awards

The W 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 the Main Page: Today's featured article, In the news..., Did you know..., On this day..., and Today'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, both WP:FLs and WP:FSs were accepted to be added to the main page. FS eventually went inactive and never made it to the main page, but WP:TAFI was briefly added to the main page in 2013. As of 2024, TAFI was removed from the main page and was replaced with the WP: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 the Main 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.