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Operator: RoySmith (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 15:34, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: https://github.com/roysmith/dyk-tools/tree/main/dyk_tools/bot

Function overview: Applies move protection to DYK articles which are on the main page or in the queue to be placed on the main page soon.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 188#Move protection

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 10 per day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: Definitions

Nomination: A nomination template, i.e. a subpage of Template:Did you know nominations.

Hook: A string starting with "..." and ending with "?". Optionally includes a tag such as "ALT1".

Target: An article referenced from a hook using a bolded wikilink. All hooks have one or more targets.

Hookset: A template containing a collection of hooks along with other metadata. One of

Sylvilagus nuttallii

... that the mountain cottontail (pictured) is abundant in the Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex?
... that the YouTuber behind Stop Killing Games compared video-game publishers shutting down online-only games to silent-era film studios "burning their own films ... to recover the silver content"?
... that 17-year-old José Segundo Decoud helped to convince Antonio Estigarribia to surrender during the siege of Uruguaiana?
... that nucleariid amoebae are among the closest relatives of fungi?
... that a Thompson Seattle rooftop bar distributes drinks from copper containers shaped like flamingos?
... that one of the priority programmes announced by Supian Suri as mayor of Depok involved repairing school toilets?
... that a New Jersey TV station claimed that potential advertisers were "hostile" to efforts to encourage them to air commercials?
... that surgeon Stuart Stanton popularised an operation for stress incontinence?
... that Cybersocket, Inc., started by repackaging public domain information into a niche paperback guide to gay pornographic sites?

(i.e. the current hookset), the 7 numerically named subpages of

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DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!
DYK is running 12-hour sets.

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 4. 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.

Section	# of Hooks	# Verified
Count of DYK Hooks
April 18	1
April 29	1
May 2	2
May 5	1	1
May 7	1
May 9	1
May 12	2
May 13	1
May 17	1
May 20	2
May 21	2
May 22	2
May 25	2	1
May 27	2
May 28	3	1
May 30	5	1
May 31	1
June 2	2	2
June 3	1	1
June 4	1	1
June 5	2	1
June 6	4	1
June 7	5	2
June 8	4	3
June 9	4	3
June 10	4	2
June 11	6	2
June 12	3	1
June 13	9	5
June 14	4	4
June 15	5	4
June 16	8	3
June 17	8	6
June 18	9	3
June 19	5	1
June 20	8	3
June 21	10	6
June 22	13	5
June 23	11	4
June 24	14	6
June 25	11	1
June 26	11	6
June 27	11	5
June 28	9	5
June 29	7	5
June 30	12	4
July 1	7	2
July 2	7	1
July 3
Total	245	102
Last updated 02:51, 3 July 2025 UTC Current time is 04:34, 3 July 2025 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!
DYK is running 12-hour sets.

Earliest time for next DYK update: 12:00, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Current time: 04:34, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 12 hours

Last updated: 4 hours ago(

)

Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 4	3 July 05:00	3 July 08:00	3 July 12:00	3 July 13:00	3 July 17:30	3 July 21:00	3 July 22:00
Queue 5	3 July 17:00	3 July 20:00	4 July 00:00	4 July 01:00	4 July 05:30	4 July 09:00	4 July 10:00
Queue 6	4 July 05:00	4 July 08:00	4 July 12:00	4 July 13:00	4 July 17:30	4 July 21:00	4 July 22:00
Queue 7	4 July 17:00	4 July 20:00	5 July 00:00	5 July 01:00	5 July 05:30	5 July 09:00	5 July 10:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	5 July 05:00	5 July 08:00	5 July 12:00	5 July 13:00	5 July 17:30	5 July 21:00	5 July 22:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	5 July 17:00	5 July 20:00	6 July 00:00	6 July 01:00	6 July 05:30	6 July 09:00	6 July 10:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	6 July 05:00	6 July 08:00	6 July 12:00	6 July 13:00	6 July 17:30	6 July 21:00	6 July 22:00
Prep 4	6 July 17:00	6 July 20:00	7 July 00:00	7 July 01:00	7 July 05:30	7 July 09:00	7 July 10:00
Prep 5	7 July 05:00	7 July 08:00	7 July 12:00	7 July 13:00	7 July 17:30	7 July 21:00	7 July 22:00
Prep 6	7 July 17:00	7 July 20:00	8 July 00:00	8 July 01:00	8 July 05:30	8 July 09:00	8 July 10:00
Prep 7	8 July 05:00	8 July 08:00	8 July 12:00	8 July 13:00	8 July 17:30	8 July 21:00	8 July 22:00

Queues

Queue 4 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Gatoclass (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Douglas at the 2016 Olympic Games

... that gymnast Gabby Douglas (pictured) has a Barbie doll modeled after her?
... that one of former British prime minister Rishi Sunak's favourite books is the 1988 romance Rivals?
... that when Matthew Wild directed Wagner's Tannhäuser, he made its main character gay?
... that after a tornado strike at a St. Louis-area Amazon warehouse killed six workers, the rebuilt warehouse still had no proper storm shelter?
... that Jamaican-Welsh noblewoman Justina Jeffreys was the inspiration for the character of Anthelia in the 1817 novel Melincourt?
... that Grand Theft Auto V is a popular video game in North Korea?
... that Frank Page's sons stole his corpse after he died, leaving their stepmother to bury an empty casket?
... that following the sinking of HNLMS Kortenaer, an officer responded to ethnic tensions on the lifeboats by beating his subordinates with a paddle?
... that after playing just one game, Michael Basinger retired from the NFL and became a country music performer?

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Gatoclass (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

The Washington D.C. Temple

... that the Washington D.C. Temple (pictured) was moved 60 feet (18 m) to exactly align with a nearby road?
... that the Fugitive Doctor was the first time The Doctor in Doctor Who was portrayed by a black actor?
... that to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Duster's Stratosphere, a vinyl copy of the album was launched into space?
... that during the fatal arrest of Abisay Cruz by Montreal police, Cruz was recorded saying "Je vais mourir" ("I'm going to die")?
... that an African-American was appointed postmaster of Baynesville, Virginia, in 1893 in preference to a former Confederate soldier?
... that mine labourer Golekane Mosveu became an Olympic runner after someone noticed his fitness?
... that the Chicken Ranch Bingo once showcased 600 arrowheads on a wall?
... that the authors of The Zelensky Effect analysed material from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's entertainment career in the context of the development of civic national identity in Ukraine?
... that Pitchfork described Yuno Miles's vocals as "ostrich-squeal-rap"?

Queue 6 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Mandan Bull Dancer

... that the end of the Okipa involved Bull Dancers of the Mandan tribe (example pictured) having ritual sex with married women and then smoking a "pipe of reconciliation" with their husbands?
... that Taylor Swift wrote and dedicated a song to Ethel Kennedy?
... that some people chanted "USA, USA!" and others waved Peruvian flags at the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV?
... that Mabel MacFerran Rockwell was the only female engineer to work on designing the electrical systems for Hoover Dam?
... that the 2018–19 College Football Playoff included a game between Alabama and Clemson, making it the fourth consecutive playoff to include such a game?
... that William R. Ferguson received a two-year prison sentence for selling a medical device that was claimed to cure disease through "a force unknown to science"?
... that the name of the song "Shagidi" was inspired by a children's game?
... that ...
... that a Twitter user and an animal sanctuary were involved in a copyright dispute over Meatball?

Queue 7 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (RoySmith (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Fossil Bohlenia americana leaflets

... that the fossil soapberry Bohlenia (pictured) was named after Oregon's 1972 biology teacher of the year?
... that Libya's opposition to abortion has led it to form alliances with the United States and the Catholic Church?
... that Ipuk Fiestiandani defeated her husband's former deputy in a 2020 election?
... that the carnivorous dinosaur Eocarcharia may be a chimaera, its bones coming from two different families?
... that Jeannie Rice went from running to lose weight to running to set world records?
... that the Houston Rockets sold a majority stake in their League of Legends esports team for US$30 million?
... that Irene D. Paden turned an annual family summer trip into a book on American westward expansion trails?
... that Albanian investment in the AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, required an amendment to the country's 2025 budget?
... that Pedro Durruti was executed by firing squad, but the Spanish State officially recorded his cause of death as cardiac arrest?

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Instructions on how to promote a hook

At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area

See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for details on verifying a hook's acceptability.
Promoters should not promote their own nomination or their own review.
When promoting hooks intended for a particular date, keep in mind that when the number of available approved nominations exceeds 120 we switch to two sets per day, and when that number drops below 60 we return to one set per day.

Check list for nomination review completeness

Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
- Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
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.
Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
Hook should make sense grammatically.
Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
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 :)

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.
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.
If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
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.
Save the Prep page.

Closing the DYK nomination page

At the upper left
- Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
- Change |passed= to |passed=yes
At the bottom
- Just above the line containing
  }}
  insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
  To [[TM:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
- Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
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.
Save.

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

Handy copy sources:

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

Prep areas

Note: The next prep set to move into the queue is Prep 1 [update count].

Prep area 1 [edit]

Belimpasaki, Święty-Ersetic and De Witte

... that Justyna Święty-Ersetic "snatch[ed] gold in the dying strides" of the women's 400 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships (medallists pictured)?
... that tornado sirens failed to activate during the 2025 St. Louis tornado, which caused the worst residential damage in the U.S. since the 2011 Joplin tornado?
... that Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo considered preserving Puerto Rican history "the best way to serve her people"?
... that players of a 2022 strategy board game have to manage stress, overheating, and tight cornering?
... that Jim Lankas retired from professional boxing and wrestling to enter farming?
... that Utah Jazz basketball broadcasts returned in 2023 to a station that is named after the team?
... that the first headquarters of New York magazine was a former political clubhouse?
... that Lucie Lagerbielke had a public feud in the press with critic Poul Bjerre after he criticised one of her books?
... that Angelina Jolie paid homage to Marilyn Monroe with a dress?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Kate Nash

... that Kate Nash (pictured) part-funded a tour promoting her fifth album using an OnlyFans account?
... that the Cova de les Dones contains prehistoric art and ancient Roman inscriptions?
... that baseball player Chuck Hockenbery had to refuse an offer to join an MLB team?
... that around 2,000 prison guards were fired after the 2025 New York corrections officers' strike ended?
... that an openly gay referee officiated the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship final?
... that old bridge abutments became artificial reefs during the South Coast Rail project?
... that the limited edition of Reira Ushio's debut EP includes a booklet featuring short stories she wrote?
... that financial issues including the misuse of funds emerged at an Illinois TV station after its director died?
... that, before designing the Millard House, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Millard House?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Administration Building

... that a 1932 building (pictured) of the National Geographic Society Headquarters was constructed in part to house the group's collection of 300,000 photographs?
... that many of Johann Sebastian Bach's manuscripts were lost because some family members did not care about preserving them?
... that when Western Air Lines Flight 34 crashed, it took searchers three days to find the crash site?
... that Roy Soemirat led the evacuation of Indonesian citizens from Iran during the Iran–Israel war?
... that Bill Maynard received letters thanking him for making Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt "the cleanest show on television"?
... that Mary Kahil, an Egyptian Christian mystic, cofounded one of the earliest women's movements in the Arab world?
... that the band Pinmonkey got their name from an episode of The Simpsons?
... that Imogen was described as "puns-and-needles"?
... that before he became a bishop, Chad McCharles moonlighted as a school bus driver?

Prep area 4 [edit]

1672 portrait of Ivan Kalita

... that Ivan I of Moscow (pictured) earned the nickname "Kalita", which literally means "money bag"?
... that Morocco's abortion law requires spousal consent, but it does not explicitly require the consent of the woman receiving the procedure?
... that after losing his left arm in a dogfight where he downed a Japanese plane, Chinese pilot Shi Bangfan was honored with brand cigarettes named after him?
... that El Salvador's only goal at the FIFA World Cup occurred during a 10–1 loss to Hungary?
... that Nurtami Soedarsono helped to identify victims of the 2012 Sukhoi crash?
... that according to The Big Con, big consultancies are playing both sides—advising the fossil fuel industry while shaping government climate policy?
... that sprinter Kenaz Kaniwete was the youngest athletics competitor at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
... that a socialist youth organization held an anti-NATO music festival attended by 20,000 people in 1982 West Berlin?
... that despite calls to remember housing activist Michael Brown in 1988, a 2024 academic article could not find any subsequent trace of him?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Red Fićo monument

... that a monument in Croatia (pictured) depicts a small red car triumphing over a battle tank?
... that during Oduwa's reign, cowries became so widespread as currency that nobles stitched them into their clothes—causing runaway inflation?
... that since the first work of Korean science fiction appeared in 1929, the field has evolved into distinct North and South branches?
... that Sue Anderson helped to break through the glass ceiling for female conductors on Broadway?
... that the flowers falling off of the final dress in Alexander McQueen's Sarabande was a serendipitous effect?
... that Malawian bishop Fanuel Magangani was circumcised as an adult to promote its effectiveness in reducing HIV transmission?
... that the actress Emma Stone contributed "oddities" to Florida!!!?
... that governor of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Yulius Selvanus used his parents' clan names for "personal branding"?
... that the Mansfield Town Mill has produced flour, textiles and cannabis?

Prep area 6 [edit]

M. dryades in its natural habitat

... that Megalobulimus dryades (pictured) was named after nymphs from Greek mythology?
... that Bal Krishna Kaul, the first Home and Finance minister of Ajmer State, had undertaken a 22-day hunger strike in Ajmer Jail?
... that 3.5% of a country's population can change its government?
... that after a four year absence from international competition, weightlifter Ri Suk set eight world records in a single competition?
... that G: Gaya Hidup Ceria was the first gay magazine in Indonesia?
... that brothers Dag Burgos and Ricardo Burgos competed for Guatemala at the 1988 Winter Olympics?
... that the first volume of Felix Klein's books on the history of mathematics does not mention the three women who originally transcribed his lectures?
... that some of the interior decoration of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus is inspired by jellyfish?
... that for many members of an online forum for mothers, Rupert Campbell-Black is "vaginally totemic"?

Prep area 7 [edit]

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, or the 7 numerically named Template:Did you know/Preparation area 1, etc.

DYKToolsBot is already approved for a different task, but does not have admin rights. This new account (DYKToolsAdminBot) will handle tasks that require admin rights. They share the same code.

There are two distinct tasks proposed here, protect and unprotect. Both tasks are run as scheduled toolforge jobs. Currently both tasks run every 10 minutes, offset by a few minutes. The exact timing is not critical.

The protect task does:

Parse the main page + queue hooksets, extracting all the hooks. From the hooks, extract the targets which need protecting ("protectable targets"). These titles are indicated by wikilinks set in bold. There is typically one target per hook, but there can be more than one. For each protectable target, indef move=sysop indef protection will be applied. The page protection log messages will include a link to a page in the bot's userspace explaining the process.

The unprotect task does:

Queries the bot's user log with type=protect for the previous N days, where N is long enough to account for any hooks which have progressed through the normal promotion process plus extra time to account for intra-queue hook swapping. It's currently set to 9, but might need to be increased. The exact value is not critical. These are the "unprotectable targets". The current list of protectable targets is acquired as in the protect task. Any targets in the unprotectable set which are not also in the protectable set are unprotected.

I considered computing an expiration date and only protecting until then. The problem is that the expiration date is a moving target. Hooks often get shuffled around when problems are discovered. Sometimes hooks get unpromoted entirely after hitting a queue (or even when they're on the main page). Sometimes the queue processing schedule is disrupted by failure of the bot which manages that process (this has happened a couple of times in the past few weeks). A few times a year, queue processing toggles between 1 per day or 2 per day. Keeping track of all these possibilities and updating the expiration time would add significant complexity for no benefit. It's far simpler to use a declarative approach, in the style of puppet; periodically figure what state each target should be in right now and make it so, regardless of history.

Known problems

On rare occasions, hook targets are written as templates such as one of the (many) Error: {{Ship}} missing name (help) variants. The current code does not recognize these properly This happens infrequently enough, and it's difficult enough to do correctly (it requries a call out to Parsoid), and the consequence is mild enough (a page doesn't get the move protection it should), that I'm not going to make it a blocker for an initial deployment.

If a target was already move protected before entering the DYK pipeline, it will have that protection removed when it transitions out of DYK. The probability of this happening is so low, I'm going to ignore it. The alternative would be to maintain a database of pre-existing protections so they could be restored properly, which seems like more trouble than it's worth.

If enough protection log history isn't examined, it's possible to miss unprotecting a target which spent an abnormally long time in the DYK queues. If it happens, the target can be manually unprotected and the history window size increased.

Discussion

[4] ttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/352/380/

[5] ttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/352/380/