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A fact from Open Source Tripwire appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a computer system can contain tripwire files that alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Open Source Tripwire.

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Portal:Free software: Tripwire now the selected article

Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was ImageMagick, a command-line image editing tool suited toward batch processing. For other interesting free software articles, you can take a look at the archive of PFs selectees. --Gronky 12:59, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The selectee has moved on and is now QTFairUse - the controversal tool (with many completely legal uses) to bypass anti-copying systems for software. --Gronky 19:03, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

orphaned link

Hello,

it seems the page https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tripwire/ has moved or does not exist anymore.

Cheers, JR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.6.247.245 (talk) 18:53, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:09, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the computer system can contain tripwire files which alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders? Source: Tripwire: Pioneering Integrity Scanning for Cybersecurity by Eugene Spafford
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- Comment: My first DYK, expanded the article from stub today

5x expanded by Deltaspace42 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:56, 14 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Open Source Tripwire; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

This caught my eye, I'd love to see another cybersecurity focussed article on the Main_Page, however, the current expansion does not qualify as a 5x expansion per the the DYK rules (you can use the dykcheck tool to verify if it passes that bar). I would suggest expanding the article further :) Sohom (talk) 19:09, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sohom: Hello! Why isn't it 5x? I expanded it today from this state. Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 19:25, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oooh, I forgot to check the size at the time of creation, it was later reduced to stub (only a lead section) by someone. Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 19:33, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sohom: I expanded the article further, now at 5000 symbols, 800 words - a little more than 5x of the original article (which had 140 words). Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 22:58, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, this appears to be one of the cases, where DYKCHECK isn't doing what DYK5X asks for. I'm going to ignore all rules and base the 5x score based on 804715710 (252 bytes) which was the state of the article from (approximately) 2017 to 2024 before you edited it (The article is currently at 5031 bytes which satisfies the 5x criteria criteria). DYKCHECK appears to be picking a unsourced 2007 revision edited by the author of the tool, which is not the revision from which the expansion begins.

I do see some minor issues with the prose, which would definitely benefit from a copyedit, a bit of restructuring to include some context as to why Tripwire files were required in the first place and a expansion of the lede to summarize the content in the article. However, these do not block WP:DYK and I'd suggest you fix these issues before the hook appears on the Main Page.

Looking at the hook itself, everything seems fine, and based on that, I'll approve this nom :)

Sohom (talk) 13:33, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sohom: I've expanded the article further and now DYKCHECK seems to accept the 5x. Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 13:48, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion looks good. Sohom (talk) 12:36, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]