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Current time: 16:17, 28 October 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 16 hours ago() |
Hooks
edit- ... that slime monsters (example pictured) have been described as both "a tool for questioning the idea of human exceptionalism" and "loyal punching bags"?
- ... that some Idaho mountain deathcamas are pollinated by carrion and flesh flies rather than bees?
- ... that What a Merry-Go-Round closed with evil clowns cavorting around a carousel?
- ... that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House, protecting her book collection?
- ... that trunk-or-treating was created as a safer alternative to regular trick-or-treating?
- ... that Vincent Darré had a Parisian apartment decorated with skulls?
- ... that the song "Haunted" "blends cuteness and spookiness"?
- ... that Brian David Gilbert released a series of monster-themed ABBA covers under the name AAAH!BBA?
- ... that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
- ... that the Devil's Doorway is found in Wisconsin?
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
editThis 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.
- Slime (monster) – Di (they-them) (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Anticlea elegans – Kevmin (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- What a Merry-Go-Round – Premeditated Chaos (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Margaret C. Waites – Innisfree987 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Margaret C. Waites – Penny Richards (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Trunk-or-treating – Tails Wx (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Vincent Darré – Thriley (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Haunted (Laura Les song) – Skyshifter (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Brian David Gilbert – Vigilantcosmicpenguin (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Progradungula barringtonensis – Kevmin (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Devil's Doorway (Wisconsin) – Lightburst (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
editYou can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|28 October|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 October|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|28 October|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|28 October|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|28 October|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.