Hooks[edit]
- ... that Mel Carnahan (pictured) was the first person to be elected to the United States Senate posthumously?
- ... that Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?
- ... that the stage director and scenic designer Daniela Kerck crafted a new ending to Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele?
- ... that a law was signed so that the delegation of Solomon Islands at the 2020 Summer Olympics could return home?
- ... that the Native American studies professor Joely Proudfit has received tenure from three different universities?
- ... that Metro Boomin unknowingly sampled a song created with generative artificial intelligence in the diss track "BBL Drizzy"?
- ... that young Erismatopterus formed shoals as a likely way to avoid predators?
- ... that the Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi helped empower Caliph al-Amir, only to be later imprisoned and executed by him?
- ... that due to union restrictions the production team for the Doctor Who episode "Space Babies" occasionally had to replace real babies with props?
Hook lengths
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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[edit]
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.
- Mel Carnahan – FountofInterestingInfo (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Oxford (toy company) – Piotrus (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Daniela Kerck – Gerda Arendt (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Solomon Islands at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Arconning (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Joely Proudfit – Silver seren (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- BBL Drizzy – Liance (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Erismatopterus – Kevmin (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi – Cplakidas (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Space Babies – OlifanofmrTennant (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Space Babies – Alex 21 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates[edit]
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|22 June|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|22 June|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|22 June|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
Images[edit]
- 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|22 June|2024}}
Manually posting the new update (if the bot is down)[edit]
- 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 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|22 June|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.