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Today's featured list  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. See this month's queue. 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 on the TFL talk page. Find out more on how to get involved. |
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From the previous featured list (Monday, April 21)
There are 54 extant emballonurid species, which are members of Emballonuridae, one of the twenty families of bats in the mammalian order Chiroptera and part of the suborder of microbats. Members include sheath-tailed bats, sac-winged bats, and tomb bats. They are found in all continents besides Europe and Antarctica, primarily in forests and caves, though some species can also be found in shrublands, savannas, rocky areas, or deserts. They range in size from the Amazonian sac-winged bat, at 3 cm (1 in) plus a 1 cm (0.4 in) tail, to Pel's pouched bat (pictured), at 14 cm (6 in) plus a 4 cm (2 in) tail. The 54 extant species in Emballonuridae are divided into two subfamilies: Emballonurinae contains 36 species in 12 genera, and Taphozoinae contains 18 species in 2 genera. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Friday, April 25)
The DHL Fastest Lap Award is given annually by the courier, Formula One global partner and logistics provider DHL to the driver with the highest number of fastest laps over the course of the season. It is presented to the winning driver at the final round of the season. The inaugural winner was the Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen with six fastest laps in 2007. The award has been decided on a tiebreaker on four occasions. Räikkönen and his teammate Felipe Massa tied with six fastest laps and two-second-quickest laps in 2007 with the former winning by having more third-fastest laps than the latter. British drivers have won the award seven times, German drivers four times, and Finnish racers three times. Mercedes have won on seven occasions to Red Bull Racing's six and Ferrari's three. The 2024 recipient was Lando Norris of the McLaren team with six fastest laps, the first time he and his team won the award. (Full list...)