Template:Did you know/Queue/7
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| 40x40px | Earliest time for next DYK update: Error: Invalid time.
Current time: 05:56, 1 October 2026 (UTC) Last updated: Template:Time ago (verify⧼dot-separator⧽ reset⧼dot-separator⧽ purge) |
| DYK queues: 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • Clear Next queue: 25px (update • Script error: No such module "Purge". • edit • history) DYK prep areas: 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • 25px • Clear Next prep for promotion: 25px (update • Script error: No such module "Purge". • edit • history) |
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
- ... that the 1957 The Green Pastures (advertisement pictured) was critiqued in the white Southern press for having "bowed to the inverted prejudice which insists that Negroes shall never be portrayed as Negroes"?
- ... that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job?
- ... that the gall wasp Synergus japonicus is considered to be a kleptoparasite?
- ... that This American Life producer and Boston native Sean Cole spoke with an affected British accent from age 14 to 16?
- ... that The Alcestiad, an opera based on a Greek myth and written collaboratively by Thornton Wilder and composer Louise Talma, was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in German?
- ... that Arizona Falls is a functioning small hydroelectric plant designed as public art?
- ... that the Banu Muhriz emirs were patrons of the Alawites of Syria?
- ... that the Cousteau Society visited the wreck of the yacht Gunilda in Lake Superior in 1980, calling it "the most beautiful shipwreck in the world"?
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... 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
- The Green Pastures (Hallmark Hall of Fame) – Cbl62 (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- Katie Levick – Joseph2302 (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- Synergus japonicus – Cwmhiraeth (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- Sean Cole – Esprit15d (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- Sean Cole – Innisfree987 (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- The Alcestiad – Gerda Arendt (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- Arizona Falls – MB (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- Banu Muhriz – Al Ameer son (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
- Gunilda – GreatLakesShips (give) (tag) –View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|1 October|2026|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|1 October|2026|Article name}}--~~~~ - Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|1 October|2026|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
- 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|1 October|2026}}
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 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|1 October|2026|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.