Template:Did you know/Queue/6
here for an example of what these hooks will look like on the main page – you may wish to remove this template for a more accurate example, if you do ensure to add it back. |
DYK queue status
Current time: 03:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 3 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 the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (rioter pictured) was the second time a riot broke out in Vancouver after a Stanley Cup loss?
- ... that Animal Crossing: New Horizons sparked a boom in the popularity of cozy games?
- ... that before becoming a voice actress, Miyuki Ichijo left the NHK music variety show Stage 101 in protest over the removal of its director?
- ... that the 1818 Akure–Benin War led to the Akure Kingdom becoming a vassal state of the Benin Kingdom?
- ... that Albert Gumble and Owen Murphy's music score for the Broadway musical Red Pepper was dismissed by one critic as not "real music" because of its embrace of jazz?
- ... that the 1994 Pacific hurricane season was the first to produce three hurricanes that attained Category 5 intensity, the highest rating on the Saffir–Simpson scale?
- ... that the vocals of To See the Next Part of the Dream were recorded on a Samsung Galaxy S5?
- ... that Paul Huff Parkway is named after a U.S. Army soldier who won the Medal of Honor while serving in World War II?
- ... that Jenna Ortega almost quit acting to play soccer?
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.
- 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot – Brindille1 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Cozy game – Andrzejbanas (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Nom credit: JuniperChill (give)
- Miyuki Ichijo – Miraclepine (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Akure–Benin War – Vanderwaalforces (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Owen Murphy (songwriter) – 4meter4 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Albert Gumble – 4meter4 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Red Pepper (musical) – 4meter4 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Timeline of the 1994 Pacific hurricane season – Dylan620 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- To See the Next Part of the Dream – Skyshifter (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Paul Huff Parkway – Bneu2013 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Jenna Ortega – Pamzeis (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|19 April|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|19 April|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|19 April|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
Images
- 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|19 April|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 cascading protectionof 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 T:DYKpage 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|19 April|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.