Template:Did you know/Preparation area 4: Difference between revisions

DYK queue status There are currently 5 filled queues – all good, for now! v t e Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC) Current time: 12:26, 3 May 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 12 hours ago( verify reset purge )

Note: Because a preponderance of hooks on the

Tips on assembling sets can be found at

Hooks

Seagull eggs

• ... that seagull eggs (examples pictured) were used as counterfeit plover eggs?
• ... that the San Diego Chargers suffered their worst margin of defeat during the 1964 San Diego Chargers season, which stood until an even worse loss 56 years later?
• ... that Walter Nash's 14 years as New Zealand's minister of finance is the longest continuous time that anyone has ever served in that post?
• ... that Sudan has
  another for men
  , with a green ribbon?
• ... that after trans woman
  boycotted the brand and its parent company Anheuser-Busch
  ?
• ... that Yemi Mobolade is the first Black person and the first non-Republican to be elected the mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado?
• ... that when the founder of Pansophic Systems tried to return to the company, he was rejected?
• ... that as an Easter egg the character Sarah Bryant would have the color of her earring change depending on the fighting stage in which the player was engaged?

Hook lengths

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

Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

• Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}}) {{DYK talk|3 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|3 May|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
• Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|3 May|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
• Notify contributor about addition to a
  Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) – ({{UpdatedDYKportal}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKportal
  |Article name|Portal:Portal name}}--~~~~

• Don't forget to add an {{
  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|3 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 and 11.

1. Make sure the image/media for 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.
2. Update
   T:DYK from the current queue
   .
3. Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
4. Reset the DYK time.
5. Increment the next queue pointer.
6. Copy 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.
7. Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
8. On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add {{DYKfile|3 May|2024|type=image}} (occasionally replacing image with video 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.
9. If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
10. Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with {{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}.
11. 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.