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DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

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To ping the DYK admins{{DYK admins}}

When modifying a hook in a queue or prep area (other than minor formatting fixes), please notify the nominator by including a link of the form [[User:JoeEditor]] in your edit summary. (Ping templates like {{u|JoeEditor}} don't work in edit summaries.)

Administrators: Please ensure that there is always at least one queue filled at all times, to prevent overdue updates to the Main Page.

This page gives an overview of all DYK hooks currently scheduled for promotion to the Main Page. By showing the content of all queues and prep areas in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queues are, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted or to find hooks for copy-editing. Hooks removed from queues or prep areas for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.

You may need to purge this page to get it to display the latest edits.

The next update will be produced from Queue 2. After performing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.

Current number of hooks on the nominations page

Note: See WP:DYKROTATE for when we change between one and two sets per day.

Count of DYK Hooks
Section # of Hooks # Verified
October 18 1 1
October 28 1
October 31 1
November 1 2
November 2 2
November 4 3
November 5 2
November 7 1
November 8 3 1
November 9 2 2
November 10 2
November 11 1 1
November 13 1 1
November 14 1 1
November 15 2 1
November 16 2 1
November 17 1
November 18 2 1
November 19 4 1
November 20 1 1
November 21 7 6
November 22 5 3
November 23 1 1
November 24 4 4
November 25 5 4
November 26 4 2
November 27 6 5
November 29 9 7
November 30 4 4
December 1 8 7
December 2 5 4
December 3 7 6
December 4 8 8
December 5 10 9
December 6 9 7
December 7 9 9
December 8 12 12
December 9 9 9
December 10 4 1
December 11 8 7
December 12 7 5
December 13 7 1
December 14 1
December 15 3
December 16 4
December 17 4
December 18 3
December 19 3
December 20 6
December 21 1
December 22 4
December 23 4
December 24 2
December 25 1
Total 219 133
Last updated 15:45, 25 December 2024 UTC
Current time is 16:12, 25 December 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

Local update times

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Queue 2 25 December
16:00
25 December
19:00
26 December
00:00
26 December
00:00
26 December
05:30
26 December
09:00
26 December
11:00
Queue 3 26 December
16:00
26 December
19:00
27 December
00:00
27 December
00:00
27 December
05:30
27 December
09:00
27 December
11:00
Queue 4 27 December
16:00
27 December
19:00
28 December
00:00
28 December
00:00
28 December
05:30
28 December
09:00
28 December
11:00
Queue 5 28 December
16:00
28 December
19:00
29 December
00:00
29 December
00:00
29 December
05:30
29 December
09:00
29 December
11:00
Queue 6
Prep 6
29 December
16:00
29 December
19:00
30 December
00:00
30 December
00:00
30 December
05:30
30 December
09:00
30 December
11:00
Queue 7
Prep 7
30 December
16:00
30 December
19:00
31 December
00:00
31 December
00:00
31 December
05:30
31 December
09:00
31 December
11:00
Queue 1
Prep 1
31 December
16:00
31 December
19:00
1 January
00:00
1 January
00:00
1 January
05:30
1 January
09:00
1 January
11:00
Prep 2 1 January
16:00
1 January
19:00
2 January
00:00
2 January
00:00
2 January
05:30
2 January
09:00
2 January
11:00
Prep 3 2 January
16:00
2 January
19:00
3 January
00:00
3 January
00:00
3 January
05:30
3 January
09:00
3 January
11:00
Prep 4 3 January
16:00
3 January
19:00
4 January
00:00
4 January
00:00
4 January
05:30
4 January
09:00
4 January
11:00
Prep 5 4 January
16:00
4 January
19:00
5 January
00:00
5 January
00:00
5 January
05:30
5 January
09:00
5 January
11:00

Queues


FoodPharmer
FoodPharmer


Graves at Bayonet Trench
Graves at Bayonet Trench


Kwan Man-ching
Kwan Man-ching


Mawali tribal sheikhs, 1880s
Mawali tribal sheikhs, 1880s
  • ... that in the 18th century the Mawali tribe (pictured) was driven from the Syrian steppe to the regions of Hama and Idlib, where their descendants live today?
  • ... that a reviewer identified an "audible contempt" for men in the songs of Ceechynaa, who entered the UK singles chart earlier this month with "Peggy"?
  • ... that vitamin E was named "tocopherol" as it was identified as essential for live births in rats?
  • ... that in the 1950s Michel Klein opened one of the first veterinary practices in Paris?
  • ... that the sexual onomatopoeia puff-puff was censored in English releases of Dragon Quest until Dragon Quest XI?
  • ... that newspaper publisher Jacob Frolich built trapdoors and hiding places in his house in case it was raided by Radical Republicans?
  • ... that nearly 300 construction workers showed up at 8 am to continue building Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6, unaware of the Chernobyl disaster earlier that day?
  • ... that war correspondent Bernard Gray was killed while travelling as an unofficial passenger aboard a Royal Navy submarine during the Second World War?
  • ... that Good Gravy!, a Thanksgiving dinner–themed roller coaster, was first tested with a train full of plush turkeys?


Instructions on how to promote a hook

At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area
Check list for nomination review completeness
  1. Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
  2. Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
    • Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
  3. Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
  4. Images for the lead slot must be freely licensed. Fair-use images are not permitted. Images loaded on Commons that appear on the Main Page are automatically protected by KrinkleBot.
  5. Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
  6. Hook should make sense grammatically.
  7. Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
  8. Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.
Steps to add a hook to prep
  • In one tab, open the nomination page of the hook you want to promote.
  • In a second tab, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.

Wanna skip all this fuss? Install WP:PSHAW instead! Does most of the heavy lifting for ya :)

  1. For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
    • Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
  2. Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
    • Make sure there's a space between ... and that, and a ? at the end.
    • Check that there's a bold link to the article.
  3. If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
  4. Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
  5. Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
    • At the bottom under "Credits", to the right of each article should have the link "View nom subpage" ; if not, a subpage parameter will need to be added to the DYKmake.
  6. Save the Prep page.
Closing the DYK nomination page
  1. At the upper left
    • Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
    • Change |passed= to |passed=yes
  2. At the bottom
    • Just above the line containing

      }}<!--Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line.-->

      insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
      To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
      To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
      To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
      To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
      To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
      To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
      To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
    • Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
  3. Check in Preview mode. Make sure everything is against a pale blue background (nothing outside) and there are no stray characters, like }}, at the top or bottom.
  4. Save.

For more information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook.

Handy copy sources:

  • To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
  • To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
  • To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
  • To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
  • To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
  • To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
  • To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]

Prep areas

Note: The next prep set to move into the queue is Prep 6 [update count].

Grapefruit
Grapefruit
Vienna porcelain trembleuse cup and saucer
Vienna porcelain trembleuse cup and saucer
Zeng Laishun
Zeng Laishun
Mountain Landscape
Mountain Landscape
Paora
Paora
Detail of the memorial
Detail of the memorial
Caption goes here
Caption goes here
  • ... that ... (pictured) ...
  • ... that ...
  • ... that ...
  • ... that ...
  • ... that ...
  • ... that ...
  • ... that ...
  • ... that ...
  • ... that ...