Template:Did you know/Preparation area 3
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Current time: 19:52, 21 May 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 19 hours ago() |
Did you know? | |
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Introduction and rules | |
Introduction | WP:DYK |
General discussion | WT:DYK |
Guidelines | WP:DYKCRIT |
Reviewer instructions | WP:DYKRI |
Nominations | |
Nominate an article | WP:DYKCNN |
Awaiting approval | WP:DYKN |
Approved | WP:DYKNA |
April 1 hooks | WP:DYKAPRIL |
Preparation | |
Preps and queues | T:DYK/Q |
Prepper instructions | WP:DYKPBI |
Admin instructions | WP:DYKAI |
Main Page errors | WP:ERRORS |
History | |
Statistics | WP:DYKSTATS |
Archived sets | WP:DYKA |
Just for fun | |
Monthly wraps | WP:DYKW |
Awards | WP:DYKAWARDS |
Userboxes | WP:DYKUBX |
Hall of Fame | WP:DYK/HoF |
List of users ... | |
... by nominations | WP:DYKNC |
... by promotions | WP:DYKPC |
Administrative | |
Scripts and bots | WP:DYKSB |
On the Main Page | |
To ping the DYK admins | {{DYK admins}} |
Hooks
- ... that there is an East Quoddy Head Lighthouse (pictured) and a West Quoddy Head Lighthouse on opposite sides of a bay, but one is in Canada and the other is in the United States?
- ... that Dahiru Musdapher, the 12th chief justice of Nigeria, was once a BBC World Service contributor for West Africa and Hausa?
- ... that To Catch a Copper hoped to show "an enjoyable journey of officers solving cases", but discovered "a misconduct process that was unfit for purpose in addressing seriously concerning behaviour"?
- ... that in 1848 Karl Schädler performed the first chloroform anaesthesia surgery in Liechtenstein?
- ... that the planned sale of a Texas TV station was the subject of a lawsuit more than seven years after it closed for the last time?
- ... that Bob Born became known as the "Father of Peeps" for automating the production of an Easter marshmallow treat?
- ... that critic Grace Dent wrote of a Liverpool restaurant that served her rice pudding flavoured with a substance banned in the United States for its lethality?
- ... that it took four games for Todd Leslie to set the NCAA Division I record of fifteen consecutive three point shots made?
- ... that Young Dirty Bastard rapped despite Ol' Dirty Bastard telling him not to?
See how this template appears on both today's Main Page
... and tomorrow's Main Page
To reset the contents of this page for the next update, copy the empty page from Template:Did you know/Clear.
Credits
This space is to credit the creators/nominators of the items in this template that in fact appear on the Main Page. If you replace or remove an item before it appears on the Main Page, please revert the promotion of the hook so its template appears again at Template talk:Did you know and add a note to the nomination's template explaining why you removed it.
- Head Harbour Lighthouse – Garnet Moss (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Dahiru Musdapher – Reading Beans (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- To Catch a Copper – Bilorv (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Karl Schädler – TheBritinator (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- KDCD-TV – Sammi Brie (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Bob Born – Zeete (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Belzan – Jonathan Deamer (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Todd Leslie – TonyTheTiger (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Young Dirty Bastard – Bremps (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|21 May|2024|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name}}
(check if small style templates in use, if so add|small=yes
parm) - Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYK|21 May|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|21 May|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
Images
- Don't forget to add an {{mprotected}} notice to the image description page (or {{C-uploaded}} plus a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).
- Alternatively, consider crediting the image file page even if the file is from Commons:
{{DYKfile|21 May|2024}}
Manually posting the new update (if the bot is down)
- Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1, 7, and 11.
- Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{c-uploaded}}. You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the picture/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
- Update T:DYK from the current queue.
- Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
- Reset the DYK time.
- Increment the next queue pointer.
- Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (it should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update), and place the timestamp of the DYK update you just made above it. Please include the picture/file.
- Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
- On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add
{{DYKfile|21 May|2024|type=image}}
(occasionally replacingimage
withvideo
where appropriate). Note that, like the archives, this will create a one-day misalignment between the date on the file page and the date it actually appeared in DYK. - If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
- Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with
{{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}
. - If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with
{{DYKbotdo|~~~}}
once the queue is loaded and ready.