Template:Did you know/Preparation area 2: Difference between revisions

DYK queue status There are currently 3 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time! Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 10 July 2023 (UTC) Current time: 20:29, 9 July 2023 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 20 hours ago()

Note: Because a preponderance of hooks on the approved nominations page are biographies or U.S.-related, it is usually appropriate to have several hooks on biographies or U.S. topics in any given set, but never more than half from either category. Further information is available at Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#J. Thanks.

Tips on assembling sets can be found at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.

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To reset the contents of this page for the next update, copy the empty page from Template:Did you know/Clear.

Credits[edit]

Credit templates[edit]

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

• Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}}) {{DYK talk|9 July|2023|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|9 July|2023|Article name}}--~~~~
• Nominator’s talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|9 July|2023|Article name}}--~~~~

• 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|9 July|2023}}

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.

1. 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.
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…