Choice of Articles on the SDN Homepage

Hi all,
I just wondered how the articles on the homepage of SDN are chosen? Well if anything this is a slight rant as I do not see why support package releases are placed on the homepage. I see that at the moment a BI Content support package is on there. Previously I have seen lots of other announcements of support packages on there.
In my humble opinion, these are wasting valuable space on the homepage. There are plenty of interesting blogs / additions the the wiki which could be added instead. Support packages (or for those of us who have been around a while hot packages!) are part of the general SAP maintenance and although they often have some additional content in them, perhaps links to the what's new should be put in the WIKI or sticky threads at the top of each relevant forum.
Just my thoughts.
Paul

Yours is not a rant, but very valuable feedback and posting it here is the perfect place. I will make sure that your comments get the attention of the editors. And while good blog contents are fairly easy to surface/uncover and the editors made a decision to generally try and highlight blogs and bloggers on homepages, it would be great to have more input on surfacing good wiki content so that we can begin to feature some of the best wiki pages that bring value to the community. I know the editors have been very cooperative in bringing the community wiki pages and community projects on wiki pages into the limelight.

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