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Revision as of 12:42, 12 June 2024

The hooks below have been approved by a human ( — Amakuru (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time. Click 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 There are currently 5 filled queues – all good, for now! v t e Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC) Current time: 23:49, 28 December 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 23 hours ago( verify reset purge )

Hooks

• ... that according to legend, the invention of Chinese characters (examples pictured) caused grain to rain from the sky and ghosts and demons to wail in frustration?
• ... that Alexandru Talex was "the gentlest" member of a Romanian far-right organization?
• ... that "Human Sacrifice", a track on the 2024 album Atavista, could be heard in a 2019 Google Pixel advertisement?
• ... that a mob in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, detained Jean Pettrequin and searched for Sebastian Zouberbuhler because of a letter?
• ... that although it was never built, Lynn Conway notes that IBM's ASC-1 would have been the premier supercomputer of the era?
• ... that lacrosse player Caitlyn Wurzburger committed to a college program at the age of 14?
• ... that while filming the Doctor Who episode "Boom" some takes lasted up to seven minutes?
• ... that Mike Gorman spent 43 consecutive years as the television play-by-play commentator for the Boston Celtics?
• ... that the Armenian Radio jokes are neither about radio nor are they Armenian?

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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

•   Chinese characters – Remsense (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Caitlyn Wurzburger – Hameltion (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   IBM Advanced Computer Systems project – Maury Markowitz (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Atavista – JayceFey (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Boom (Doctor Who) – OlifanofmrTennant (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Boom (Doctor Who) – TheDoctorWho (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Boom (Doctor Who) – Alex 21 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage

•   Radio Yerevan jokes – Szmenderowiecki (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Mike Gorman – Aria1561 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Alexandru Talex – Dahn (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Sebastian Zouberbuhler – Z1720 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Jean Pettrequin – Z1720 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage

Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

• Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}}) {{DYK talk|28 December|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|28 December|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
• Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|28 December|2024|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|28 December|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.

1. Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Misplaced Pages 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.
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 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.
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|28 December|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.

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