Today's featured article is expanded to three articles; at present we have just over 2100 FA that give us about 700 days, or almost 2 years to cycle through current ones including those that have already been on the main page.
Featured Picture occupies the whole width, the reason is that pictures have three formats, Portrait, Landscape, and Panorama. Along with the image, the text and attribution need to all be clearly displayed 50% or 33% result in too many compromises. 66% is possible to enable a Featured list, Sound links though it still impacts on panorama images.
section are symmetrical on the horizontal line that keeps the format consistent across various screen widths
move focus more towards content both quality and new material with FA and DYK first text sections, then FP. Following this with on this day and in the news which are more trivial links into Wikipedia content.
Zhou Fang was a Chinese painter during the Tang dynasty, living in the capital of Chang'an (modern Xi'an) during the 8th century. He came from a noble background and this was reflected in his works. He personally painted for the emperor and the themes of his artwork covered religious subjects and everyday life. This ink-and-color-on-silk painting, titled Court Ladies Playing Double-sixes, measures 30.5 cm × 69.1 cm (12.0 in × 27.2 in) and depicts members of the emperor's household playing the board game liubo. It now hangs in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1914 – Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.
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