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Revision as of 11:25, 26 December 2024 by Hilst (talk | contribs) (→Hooks: c/e per WT:DYK)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) | The hooks below have been approved by a human (Z1720 (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. |
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DYK queue status
Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 28 December 2024 (UTC) Current time: 02:08, 27 December 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 2 hours ago( ) |
Hooks
Grapefruit
- ... that the grapefruit (examples pictured) was described as the "forbidden fruit" in 1750?
- ... that British war correspondent Ian Fyfe was killed on D-Day while landing in a glider with troops attacking the Merville Gun Battery?
- ... that the cover art of Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023) was derived from bootleg merchandise?
- ... that Phoebe Plummer was "unfortunate" to draw Christopher Hehir as judge when she stood trial over the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest?
- ... that the 1976 Philippine film Itim was described as "one of the most remarkable debuts in cinema history" in a 2022 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art?
- ... that Michael O'Kane never received approval to begin constructing a building for the College of the Holy Cross?
- ... that in the 1980s, when Moturoa Island lost all its endangered kiwi to pests, experts reintroduced seven birds – today there could be as many as 300 kiwi on the island?
- ... that Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, donated her body to science because "funerals are a bore"?
- ... that a SpongeBob costume used in the film SpongeKnob SquareNuts consisted of a box and a condom?
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.- Grapefruit – Chiswick Chap (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Nom credit: MaranoFan (give)
- Ian Fyfe (British journalist) – Dumelow (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023) – Beachweak (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Phoebe Plummer – Launchballer (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Phoebe Plummer – Folkezoft (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest – Launchballer (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Christopher Hehir – Launchballer (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Itim – Mushy Yank (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Nom credit: MaranoFan (give)
- Michael O'Kane – Ergo Sum (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Moturoa Island (Bay of Islands) – Petersmeter (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Jill, Duchess of Hamilton – Surtsicna (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- SpongeKnob SquareNuts – Di (they-them) (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|27 December|2024|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name}}(check if small style templates in use, if so add|small=yesparm) - Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYK|27 December|2024|Article name}}--~~~~ - Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|27 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|27 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.
- 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.
- 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|27 December|2024|type=image}}(occasionally replacingimagewithvideowhere 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.