Wikipedia:Did you know/Monthly wrap/June 2022

DYK's June (and May!) wrapped, 2022

C. J. Cregg: ... he wants to know if we want to say something funny.

Carol Fitzpatrick: "That's twice in four years, some of you guys must really be mad at me?"

C. J.: Something funnier than that, but... yeah.

From The West Wing's "Evidence of Things Not Seen" (2003)

Hi everyone, and welcome to yet another installment of the DYK wrapped! I hope we've all come to accept by now that this is just gonna be an on-off thing for the foreseeable future. For now, we shall start as we have always done, with a selection of our best-performing hooks!^[a] Did you know...

... that the "most famous picture of a lunch break in New York history" (pictured) was actually a publicity stunt? by Kavyansh.Singh – 59,651 views in 24 hours
... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox (pictured) proposed to her husband on the day she met him? by Sdkb – 47,327 views in 24 hours
... that The Most Dangerous Animal in the World (pictured) was an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1963? by Bruxton – 43,747 views in ~22.9 hours
... that on the Juneteenth flag, designed by Ben Haith to celebrate freedom and the end of slavery in the United States, the nova (pictured) represents a new beginning for all? by Bruxton – 32,894 views in 24 hours
... that Paul Arzens created the electric egg (pictured) in 1942, during the war in occupied Paris? by Artem.G – 15,745 views in 12 hours
... that water pours from the Dinoša mulberry tree (pictured) for a few days each year? by Bruxton – 15,503 views in 12 hours

Good stuff, quite good stuff. So, what's happened? Quite a lot! No huge, flashy RfCs, but we have been attempting to start our very first rendition of the "unreviewed backlog mode" proposal as the backlog of unreviewed hooks spiked. I have consistently delayed my promise to implement an approved bot that will check for post-promotion modifications to hooks, but we have introduced PSHAW, the Prep Set's Half-Assed Workbench, an automatic DYK promotion tool! It makes life much easier for those who work in the preps. The table column that gives us the approved hook count broke... twice, actually! We've had a couple discussions on who gets to decide what goes in the image slot, a discussion on how and if the Juneteenth flag should get an image slot (spoiler alert: it did), and more discussions about hook accuracy – the last being courtesy of WP:ERRORS. And though we've welcomed new nominators and welcomed back old faces, we've also had to say goodbye to our longtime prepper, SL93, as he takes a well-earned indefinite break from the craziness that is DYK's promotion process. Speaking of the prep set promotion process, has the SOHA been moved yet?

yes, actually.

Oh, lovely! Big thanks to Wugapodes! As a special nod to Schwede66, I want to (four months late) mention his work on the Weston House hook. As he left on my talk page:

Weston House was part of a triple nom. Stunning architecture, highest heritage rating, and it got bowled soon after the Christchurch earthquakes. Once I had written the article, I contacted the owner; really just to draw her attention to it as it was clear from her blog that she had a deep affinity for the building. She loved it! Got a real thrill out of seeing her old house on Wikipedia. Told me that her husband, with whom she had a shared love for the building, had since died. She dug out some neat photos and I coached her how to upload them to Commons. That's where we got the eventual lead hook photo from, with that photo classes better than the one it replaced while the hook sat in the queue. And to top it all off, by pure coincidence we had this on the MP on her wedding day, which she was very pleased with.

We do make a difference on the personal level sometimes :) Lastly, our lovely quality quirkies, which are much easier to find now that the WP:DYKSTATS page has been largely overhauled by yours truly! Actually, to tangent about that for just a second – if you go there, and to the "Monthly DYK pageview leaders" tab, you can see all kinds of cool month-over-month stats to show how DYK hooks perform! It's easy to find your own hooks, and copy and paste the template code to make your own table. And now, back to the quality quirkies! Did you know...

... that Las Vegas radio station KVBC-FM offered Monica Lewinsky $5 million to do a tell-all interview? by Sammi Brie – I'm glad the radio hooks have begun to omit their callsigns, they seem to be doing much better since!
... that the Gould Memorial Library once hosted pie-throwing contests to raise money? by Epicgenius
... that Arlene Kelly made her international debut for the Ireland women's cricket team after nine of their regular players were unavailable for selection? by Lugnuts
... that the village of Eziler in Turkey has a girls' floor hockey team, but it has no gym? by CeeGee
... that "Es tönen die Lieder", a German round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß, who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it? by Gerda Arendt
... that István Banó collected Two Pieces of Nuts in Baranya? by evrik

That is all I've got – hopefully, finishing the modification checker comes soon? I've got no guarantees. Excited for what comes next, both at the preps and all over DYK – happy July, everyone!

Notes

^ The seven highest hooks from May 2022 outperformed all hooks from June 2022, despite similar averages, so I've just printed the top three from May followed by the top three from June.

Comment: Thanks for the update. I have one of my own favorite quotes from W²: "If You Were In An Accident I Wouldn't Stop For Red Lights." - Donna Moss

Bruxton (talk) 15:36, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] The seven highest hooks from May 2022 outperformed all hooks from June 2022, despite similar averages, so I've just printed the top three from May followed by the top three from June.

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