Talk:Vollpension

A fact from Vollpension appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 September 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Vollpension employs grandparents to bake cakes according to their own recipes and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, offered live baking courses from elders around the world?

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

Wikipedia

Vienna Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Vienna, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Vienna on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ViennaWikipedia:WikiProject ViennaTemplate:WikiProject ViennaVienna articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

Austria Low‑importance

	Austria portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Austria, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles about Austria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project.AustriaWikipedia:WikiProject AustriaTemplate:WikiProject AustriaAustria articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and drink Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

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 Nineteen Ninety-Four guy talk 14:03, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

Vollpension staff

... that Vollpension employs grandfathers and grandmothers (pictured) to bake cakes according to their own recipes, and during the COVID-19 pandemic offered live baking courses from elders all over the world?

Source: "In 2020, at the height of coronavirus pandemic, the Vollpension launched the 'world’s first Grandma Baking School'. BakAdemy is an online platform that offers on-demand, live baking courses taught by the cafe’s elderly staff, helping to spreading their knowledge and recipes worldwide.." [1]

ALT1: ... that Vollpension provides additional income and generation-bridging interaction to Viennese grandpas and grandmas (pictured) by employing them to bake and serve their own cakes?

Source: "But it is also a highly successful experiment in 'social good' or 'social entrepreneurship,' a commercially sustainable way to provide much-needed extra income. Equally important, it provides friendly generation-bridging interaction for older people who may otherwise feel lonely or isolated." [2]

ALT2: ... that the Viennese café Vollpension (employees pictured) addresses poverty and loneliness in elders by employing them to bake and serve their own cakes?

Source: "Beyond being a cafe, however, the Vollpension is seen as a statement against social issues such old-age poverty and loneliness.." [3]

Reviewed: Agnes Crane
Comment: ~~QPQ is coming.~~ Alternative hooks suggestions are welcome!

Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 181 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 22:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

@Surtsicna: Per a recent WT:DYK discussion, there has been loose consensus to change the rules so that a QPQ now needs to be provided at the time of the nomination, instead of up to a week after. Please provide a QPQ at the earliest opportunity, otherwise the nomination is liable to be closed as incomplete without warning. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:36, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Narutolovehinata5. I'm on it! Surtsicna (talk) 20:07, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I was not aware of the rule change. It seems perfectly reasonable. Surtsicna (talk) 20:49, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Full review needed now that QPQ has been submitted. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:06, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I like the wholesome hooks and image! Definitely seems unusual enough to be an interesting hook fact. The article was nominated in time and meets the size requirements. The QPQ issue seems to have been handled now so everything is fine eligibility-wise. I wonder if "grandmas and grandpas" should be in quotes if it is considered informal in wiki-voice, but it does not seem like a huge issue.--N Ø 12:08, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just a brief note

The article talks primarily about how it helps older people with employment to mitigate poverty, social isolation, and loneliness. Only at the end do we find a short snippet that says the older staff shares their skills and knowledge with younger people. In the states we call this institutional memory, and I suspect that in addition to this, there might be younger people without access to family and who are also experiencing social isolation who might go here to feel like they were being served by their grandparents. In other words, there may be a greater benefit for younger people here than is currently expressed in this article. Viriditas (talk) 22:03, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]