The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (The DYK project (nominate)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time. Click here for an example of what these hooks will look like on the main page – you may wish to remove this template for a more accurate example, if you do ensure to add it back.

DYK queue status

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

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 23:01, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 23 hours ago(

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Next prep for promotion

NOTE: Since on average about 50% of hooks on the suggestions page are U.S. related, it is usually appropriate to have roughly half the hooks in any given update on U.S. topics. Thanks.

Tips on assembling sets are at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.

Hooks

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that just before being murdered, Karekin Khajag (pictured) wrote in his last letter to his wife, "I have great hope that we will see each other once again"?
... that Aaron Burr was caught in the 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane while hiding from federal officials?
... that the "Four jewels of Cuban ballet" included Aurora Bosch and Mirta Plá?
... that HMS Vindictive served as four different types of ship?
... that Alfreda Markowska, a Polska Roma, was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos during World War II?
... that student tradition at Rutgers University says that a bronze statue of William the Silent will whistle if a virgin happens to pass by?

Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

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Introduction and rules
Introduction	WP:DYK
General discussion	WT:DYK
Guidelines	WP:DYKCRIT
Reviewer instructions	WP:DYKRI
Nominations
Nominate an article	WP:DYKCNN
Awaiting approval	WP:DYKN
Approved	WP:DYKNA
April 1 hooks	WP:DYKAPRIL
Preparation
Preps and queues	T:DYK/Q
Prepper instructions	WP:DYKPBI
Admin instructions	WP:DYKAI
Main Page errors	WP:ERRORS
History
Statistics	WP:DYKSTATS
Archived sets	WP:DYKA
Just for fun
Monthly wraps	WP:DYKW
Awards	WP:DYKAWARDS
Userboxes	WP:DYKUBX
Hall of Fame	WP:DYK/HoF
List of users ...
... by nominations	WP:DYKNC
... by promotions	WP:DYKPC
Administrative
Scripts and bots	WP:DYKSB
On the Main Page	T:DYK
To ping the DYK admins	((DYK admins))
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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

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. Also add the template's link to the Wikipedia:Did you know/Removed page.

Karekin Khajag – EtienneDolet (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane – Cloudchased (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Alfreda Markowska – Volunteer Marek (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
HMS Vindictive (1918) – Sturmvogel 66 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Nom credit: Matty.007 (give)
Aurora Bosch – Rosiestep (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Mirta Plá – Rosiestep (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
William the Silent (statue) – ColonelHenry (give) (tag) – View nom subpage

Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

Article talk page: (((dyktalk))) ((dyktalk|1 March|2024)) (check if small style templates in use, if so add small=yes parm)
Article creator/expander's talk page: (((UpdatedDYK))) ((subst:UpdatedDYK|1 March|2024|Article name)) --~~~~
Nominator's talk page: (((UpdatedDYKNom))) ((subst:UpdatedDYKNom|1 March|2024|Article name)) --~~~~
Notify contributor about addition to a Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) – (((UpdatedDYKportal))) ((subst:UpdatedDYKportal|Article name|Portal:Portal name)) --~~~~

Note that portal notifications are only done if you have taken the trouble to add the DYK hook to a relevant portal, which is entirely optional. The other notifications must be done before the preparation area page can be reset.

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).

Posting the new update

Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1 and 10.

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 image/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 count.
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 (should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update). 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.
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 Preparation area 1 or Preparation area 2 are full. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the queue you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with ((DYKbotdo|~~~)) once the queue is loaded and ready.