Wikipedia:Did you know/Monthly wrap/April 2022

DYK's April (and March!) wrapped, 2022[edit]

Sam Seaborn: Generally speaking, we try to do it on the first of every month.

Toby Ziegler: We've done it twice in twelve months.

Sam: We're a little behind.

From The West Wing's "The Crackpots and These Women" (1999)

Yeah, that's right... this is still a thing. Hello everyone, and welcome to DYK's April/March/whatever the hell wrap! For those of you who are new to this, sometime around the beginning of every month (or every two months, when I just... don't), I try to review the last month at DYK in terms of our most well-performing hooks, our policy developments, and the state of the prep sets. I also (try) for humour! To start off, a round of applause for some of our best-performing hooks of the past couple months! Did you know...

... that the sculpture Mephistopheles and Margaretta (pictured) is best seen with a mirror behind it? by Bruxton—31,180 views in 12 hours
... that shoe-mirrors were reportedly banned (example pictured) at Brigham Young University? by Rachel Helps (BYU)—54,637 views in 24 hours
... that Lisa Winter (pictured) took part in robot battles at 10 years old? by ScottishFinnishRadish and 2600:1700:5b20:da0:98b2:b6b4:c36e:62bf—27,069 views in 12 hours
... that Daniel Sickles's leg (pictured) is a popular museum display? by Hog Farm—25,458 views in 112⁄3 hours
... that even though many fans died after falling onto a furnace at a college football game, the event continued? by Scorpions13256—25,674 views in 12 hours, with no image!
... that postcards were made of Olena Stepaniv (pictured) during the First World War, and in 1991 Lviv named a street after her? by Victuallers—21,926 views in 12 hours

That shoe-mirrors was part of our April Fools' Day set for this year! We extended the set to ten hooks, and I'm quite proud of the results :) Plus, Lisa Winter seemed to like her hook along with the rest of us :)

It's been... a busy two months. We settled our policy on Russia/Ukraine hooks throughout the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Without gravedancing, I'll say that we had quite a bit of trouble with a new DYKer named Venkat TL, leading to 1, 2, 3... a lot of discussions. We also have an ongoing (can someone please close it) discussion on a bot that records post-promotion hook pages on the nomination's talk page. I've opened a BRFA, but it's not getting much attention so far. Hey, speaking of unclosed discussions, Has the SOHA been moved yet?

no.

Shucks. On a brighter note, we've had quite a few new prep builders getting their sea legs! A warm welcome aboard to this Voyage of the Damned to Z1720, Bruxton, and Rlink2, and thanks to SL93, Kavyansh.Singh (yes I know you've got big Featured Articles to write or whatever), 97198, and Kingsif for keepin' DYK goin'. Just as well, too, because we've been in the early days of piloting a new program to assist with prep building! I call it PSHAW, which stands for the Prep Set's Half-Assed Workbench. I also attempted to debut a web program for counting DYK nominations (the Plaintext Automatic Nomination Tallying System, or PANTS),^[a] but it turned out to be buggy as crap so that's shelved for a later time. My WP:DYKSTATS program now also does its best to notify nominators when their hooks are on the stats page with {{DYK views}}.

And now, for the quirky hooks that went unappreciated by our readership!^[b] Did you know...

... that New York City officials seized the tax-exempt Moore-Jackson Cemetery in 1954 for nonpayment of taxes? by Epicgenius
... that the 13th-century Austrian chronicler Jans der Enikel characterized Richard the Lionheart as a "noble goose-roaster"? by Doric Loon
... that Cane Beds replaced Virgin Bottoms? by Kingsif
... that Mimi Reinhardt typed Schindler's list? by Thriley
... that a tradition is for singers of the Iowa Corn Song (audio featured) to raise their arms above their head when the words "tall corn" are sung during the chorus's last line? not a quirky, but it was absolutely delightful. A stats page miss done in style by SL93
... that in the early days of news at KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, one employee processed newsfilm in his bathtub? by Sammi Brie, of course- i think her hooks are just cursed

That's all I've got for you—sorry that it was gone last month! Good luck to all of our nominators, thank you to all of our prep builders and @DYK admins: ; have a great May, y'all!

Notes

^ It really must be unfortunate for y'all that I get to name the programs I write; if SD0001 wrote it, it would've just been called "DYK-promotion-helper" or something.
^ Some also went unappreciated by me, since we kinda ran out of quirkies for a while there...

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 22:31, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] It really must be unfortunate for y'all that I get to name the programs I write; if SD0001 wrote it, it would've just been called "DYK-promotion-helper" or something.

[2] Some also went unappreciated by me, since we kinda ran out of quirkies for a while there...

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