Wikipedia:Today's second feature

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Today's second feature is a section on the Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Classic 2006), a main page alternative that displays the style of the Main Page in February 2006, where additional areas of Wikipedia are displayed. On weekdays it highlights new articles with the Did You Know section (DYK). On weekends it shows the Picture of the Day (POTD) from Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.

This rotating section was originally implemented in July 2005 as a compromise after there were requests to add the POTD to the Main Page, combined with complaints that DYK was badly maintained at the time (see archived discussion). Today's second feature appeared on the Main Page until a new design was implemented in March 2006.

Current version of this section on the Classic 2006 Main Page:

Member of the 2004 jury examining baguettes

... that the best baguette in Paris has been determined by a jury (member pictured) annually since 1994?
... that Gusnar Ismail lost a gubernatorial election to Rusli Habibie in 2011, but won a subsequent election in 2024 with Habibie's wife as his running mate?
... that when Dutch ships reached China for the first time, seventeen out of twenty crew members were executed by the Portuguese?
... that Ed Policy and his father Carmen Policy have both served as presidents of National Football League teams?
... that Volcano Pizzeria, according to the family of one of its founders, was originally a diner selling Italian food before it became the "granddaddy" of Windsor-style pizza?
... that Alberto Jarrín once defeated a train in a running race?
... that the general manager of a Cleveland TV station believed its owner to be "just tired of losing money"?
... that German equestrian Hermann Weiland competed for Croatia at the 1992 Summer Olympics, but marched with Guam during the opening ceremony?
... that a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine was transformed into a statue of Darth Vader?

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