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Current time: 16:39, 16 August 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 16 hours ago() |
NOTE: Because a preponderance of hooks on the suggestions page are biographies or are U.S. related, it is usually appropriate to have several hooks on biographies or U.S. topics in any given update, but never more than half of either. Further information is available at WP:DYKSG#J. Thanks.
Tips on assembling sets are at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.
Hooks
edit- ... that the 2005 birth of Gabi (pictured with mother), the first elephant conceived in Israel through artificial insemination, was viewed live by over 350,000 people in 108 countries?
- ... that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad by singing the Jewish prayer for the dead?
- ... that Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
- ... that in 1975 TIME magazine named Schwester Selma, head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, as one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie?
- ... that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused rock and bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
- ... that Topol, who won a Golden Globe for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof, played the role in shows and revivals about 3,500 times?
- ... that a verse from Psalm 85 inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace?
- ... that Bambi delivered over 35,000 babies?
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
edit- Gabi (elephant) – Yoninah (give) (tag)
- David Werdyger – Yoninah (give) (tag)
- Kanfei Nesharim Street – Yoninah (give) (tag)
- Schwester Selma – Yoninah (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Diaspora Yeshiva Band – Yoninah (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Chaim Topol – Yoninah (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Psalm 85 – Yoninah (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Psalm 85 – Gerda Arendt (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Rachel Chalkowski – Yoninah (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Rachel Chalkowski – Cwmhiraeth (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
editYou can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|16 August|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|16 August|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|16 August|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}}--~~~~
- Note that portal notifications are only done if you have taken the trouble to add the DYK hook to a relevant portal, which is entirely optional. The other notifications must be done before the preparation area page can be reset.
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|16 August|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 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|16 August|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.