Note: Because a preponderance of hooks on the approved nominations page are biographies or U.S.-related, it is usually appropriate to have several hooks on biographies or U.S. topics in any given set, but never more than half from either category. Further information is available at Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#J. Thanks.
Tips on assembling sets can be found at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.
Hooks
Did you know? | |
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Introduction and rules | |
Introduction and rules | WP:DYK |
General discussion | WT:DYK |
Supplementary rules | WP:DYKSG |
Reviewing guide | WP:DYKR |
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 |
Admin instructions | WP:DYKAI |
Main Page errors | WP:ERRORS |
History | |
On the Main Page | |
Statistics | WP:DYKSTATS |
Archived sets | WP:DYKA |
Just for fun | |
Monthly wraps | WP:DYKW |
Awards | WP:DYKAWARDS |
Userboxes | WP:DYKUBX |
List of users ... | |
... by nominations | WP:DYKNC |
... by promotions | WP:DYKPC |
Administrative | |
Scripts and bots | WP:DYKSB |
Convenience template for pinging DYK administrators | {{DYK admins}} |
![Map of the Persian Gulf from the Book of Roads and Kingdoms](https://web.archive.org/web/20230718190514im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Bahre_fars_%28Cropped%2C_Retouched%2C_Rotated%29.jpg/124px-Bahre_fars_%28Cropped%2C_Retouched%2C_Rotated%29.jpg)
Map of the Persian Gulf from the Book of Roads and Kingdoms
- ... that the Book of Roads and Kingdoms includes illustrations so geometric that they are barely recognizable as maps (example pictured)?
- ... that leading Sacaba's largest drivers' union was José Mendieta's second choice of career, after teaching?
- ... that the old Ashford railway works is being redeveloped into Ashford International Studios?
- ... that Brison Manor, who played eight years in the National Football League, had never set foot outside of his home state before attending college?
- ... that indie rock band Built to Spill accompanied outsider musician Daniel Johnston at his final two concerts?
- ... that Karl Rozental was investigated and surveilled by police after the 1912 sappers' revolt in Tashkent?
- ... that the web-based video game Moderator Mayhem was based on a card game meant to demonstrate the difficulties of content moderation?
- ... that Goddard. learned Reason?
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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.
- Book of Roads and Kingdoms – Rjjiii () () –View nom subpage
- José Mendieta – Krisgabwoosh () () –View nom subpage
- Ashford International Studios – Ritchie333 () () –View nom subpage
- Brison Manor – BeanieFan11 () () –View nom subpage
- Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston – Voorts () () –View nom subpage
- Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston – 7szz () () –View nom subpage
- Karl Rozental – Soman () () –View nom subpage
- Moderator Mayhem – Siroxo () () –View nom subpage
- Goddard. – Launchballer () () –View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|18 July|2023|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|18 July|2023|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|18 July|2023|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|18 July|2023}}
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 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|18 July|2023|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.