Issue: CTA Featured Threads & Portal

So I'm guessing you want an integration location on the forum index, the FEED variant of the WIDGET BB-Code, and a few more options for the WIDGET BB-Code:
- display entries as list items (current behavior)
- display entries as directory-list items (like area list)
- display entries as tiles
- OR display preview of entries ("featured")

In my case i use the wiki-home as my site-start-page.

It would also be possible to integrate other content on a wiki-startpage ;-)

But yes to all of your examples...

Please make 'featured wiki articles' a VW function. It would be useful to have the same function in VW. I would not want to show VW articles in FT itself. I would just want to have a featured wiki block that we can place anywhere. This would be awesome and would also enhance the wiki portal page.

Of course I do want to have autolinks in featured threads. Or any other featured content block in XF addons (AMS, Showcase, XFRM, etc)

btw: you can already add non-wiki content to wiki pages by using Widget System. Just add a few hooks and you are good to go.