Wikipedia:Today's second feature

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Today's second feature is a section on the Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Classic 2006), a main page alternative that displays the style of the Main Page in February 2006, where additional areas of Wikipedia are displayed. On weekdays it highlights new articles with the Did You Know section (DYK). On weekends it shows the Picture of the Day (POTD) from Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.

This rotating section was originally implemented in July 2005 as a compromise after there were requests to add the POTD to the Main Page, combined with complaints that DYK was badly maintained at the time (see archived discussion). Today's second feature appeared on the Main Page until a new design was implemented in March 2006.

Current version of this section on the Classic 2006 Main Page:

Graves at Bayonet Trench

... that a popular myth held that the French soldiers interred in Bayonet Trench (pictured) were buried alive with their rifles in their hands?
... that a lost chronicle of the kings of Kashmir is attributed to the author Ratnākara?
... that a critic described GNX, after its surprise release, as Kendrick Lamar's "greatest work" yet?
... that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance to children who had been orphaned during World War II?
... that former adult actress Suzumi Suzuki's book Gifted was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2022?
... that George Bogaars, as head of Singapore's Secret Branch, oversaw the detention of more than a hundred suspected communist sympathisers?
... that the Green Bay Packers won a snowy NFL playoff game by scoring six straight touchdowns after they had been losing 14–0?
... that William C. Roberts had to resign a pastorate in Ohio because his wife's illness was believed to be curable if she returned to her home state?
... that anarchism without adjectives has been described as an ecumenical or non-denominational form of anarchism?

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