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Current time: 02:37, 2 July 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 2 hours ago() |
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- ... that blackface actor George Kunkel (pictured) originally portrayed the character of Uncle Tom to promote slavery during the American Civil War, but later used the part to attack it when his views changed?
- ... that sauerkraut made by members of a Russian spiritual sect in Armenia was once popular across the Soviet Union?
- ... that The Blue Angels was shot using IMAX cameras rigged to a helicopter, plus an ultra-high-speed camera shooting at 1,000 frames per second?
- ... that Margaret Carroux's German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor?
- ... that for six miles (9.6 km) in Davidson County, traffic on I-85 in North Carolina drives on the left?
- ... that Melanie L. Campbell was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting proposed restrictions on voting rights?
- ... that historically lichens like Umbilicaria torrefacta have been used to naturally dye traditional Scottish tartans and textiles?
- ... that American poet Edwin Ford Piper collected 828 folk songs, most of which were from Iowa and Nebraska?
- ... that before reading the script for the play Golden Girls, at least nine of the cast members were under the impression that they would be taking the lead role?
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Credits[edit]
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.
- George Kunkel (theatre manager) – 4meter4 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- The Blue Angels (film) – VeniceBreeze (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- The Blue Angels (film) – Cielquiparle (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- The Blue Angels (film) – Bruxton (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Molokans in Armenia – Sawyer777 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Margaret Carroux – Kusma (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Interstate 85 in North Carolina – NoobThreePointOh (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Melanie L. Campbell – CaptainAngus (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Umbilicaria torrefacta – Esculenta (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Nom credit: Classicwiki (give)
- Edwin Ford Piper – SL93 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Golden Girls (play) – BennyOnTheLoose (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates[edit]
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|2 July|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|2 July|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|2 July|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|2 July|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|2 July|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.