Thread:Bagwis/@comment-12719-20171028064255/@comment-12719-20171028072456

My personal opinion is that there is no reason the featured picture need to be from the latest chapter.

Automated systems are nice. But automated systems that require manual updating defeats the point. If say there is one week when nobody has time/motivation to even upload a picture from the latest chapter, then we have a section of the main page that is broken.

I'd rather see a featured picture from an older chapter than a broken featured picture section without a picture.

A hybrid solution would be to code the template so that IF a featured picture from the latest chapter exists, use it. Otherwise fallback to some other picture (depending on the mediawiki extensions we have installed here, could be a random pick from a specified pool).