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Latest revision as of 02:33, 19 January 2025

DYK queue status There are currently 5 filled queues – all good, for now! v t e Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 23 January 2025 (UTC) Current time: 10:18, 22 January 2025 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 10 hours ago( verify reset purge )

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• ... that the Sam Kee Building (pictured), recognized by Guinness World Records as the "narrowest commercial building in the world", was built on a bet between two businessmen?
• ... that a group of 25 women disfigured by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima traveled to the United States in the 1950s to receive reconstructive surgery?
• ... that Mary Sheffield is the youngest elected member and the youngest president in Detroit City Council's history?
• ... that "Pantropiko" by Bini, despite being released in November 2023, became a sleeper-hit summer anthem in the Philippines by 2024?
• ... that the capture of the crusader Bertrand of Toulouse by Muslims was blamed by an anonymous monk on the "treachery" of Queen Melisende and Countess Hodierna?
• ... that the Chinook Indian Nation became a federally recognized tribe in 2001, but had its status revoked the following year?
• ... that Liang Sishun published a Chinese poetry anthology in 1908, when she was sixteen years old?
• ... that Eoscorpius, despite living hundreds of millions of years ago, has been noted for its extreme similarity to modern scorpions?
• ... that a Greek academic compared the Frankish Tower in Athens with "the droppings of birds of prey"?

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Credits

•   Sam Kee Building – Yue (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Hiroshima Maidens – Spookyaki (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Mary Sheffield – Muboshgu (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Pantropiko – AstrooKai (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Bertrand of Toulouse (son of Alfonso Jordan) – Borsoka (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Nom credit: Surtsicna (give)
•   Chinook Indian Nation – Vigilantcosmicpenguin (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Liang Sishun – TheLonelyPather (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Eoscorpius – An anonymous username, not my real name (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens) – UndercoverClassicist (give) (tag) – View nom subpage

Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

• Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}}) {{DYK talk|22 January|2025|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|22 January|2025|Article name}}--~~~~
• Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|22 January|2025|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|22 January|2025}}

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.

1. 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.
2. Update T:DYK from the current queue.
3. Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
4. Reset the DYK time.
5. Increment the next queue pointer.
6. 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.
7. Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
8. On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add {{DYKfile|22 January|2025|type=image}} (occasionally replacing image with video 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.
9. If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
10. Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with {{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}.
11. 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.

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