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Current time: 18:19, 19 August 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 18 hours ago() |
Hooks
- ... that the five stripes of the flag of Togo (pictured) represent the country's five regions?
- ... that the McLaren MCL60 underwent "one of the most impressive in-season development steps ever seen" in Formula One?
- ... that Kanaria's song "King" has been characterized as an allegory for the house arrest, trial, and execution of Louis XVI?
- ... that the Santos Passos Church in Guimarães, Portugal, was declared a royal chapel by King Luís I in 1878?
- ... that a schoolteacher tried to make left-footed footballer Norman Hunter play right-footed?
- ... that the United States' largest planned solar project, Mammoth Solar, is named after mastodon fossils rather than its size?
- ... that William Hewett was the last-surviving British Army officer to have fought at the Battle of Waterloo?
- ... that a lyric in the song "Hands on Me" is about Meghan Trainor being unable to have sex due to pelvic floor damage?
- ... that a 1938 Catholic procession featured 80,000 marchers and one blimp?
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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.
- Flag of Togo – Yue (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Regions of Togo – Yue (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- McLaren MCL60 – 5225C (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Kanaria (musician) – Miraclepine (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- King (Kanaria song) – Miraclepine (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Santos Passos Church – V.B.Speranza (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Norman Hunter (footballer) – PearlyGigs (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Mammoth Solar – Reywas92 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- William Hewett (British Army officer) – Dumelow (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Hands on Me (Jason Derulo song) – MaranoFan (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- 8th National Eucharistic Congress (United States) – Darth Stabro (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Nom credit: Pbritti (give)
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|19 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|19 August|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|19 August|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|19 August|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 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|19 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.