@Theleekycauldron: thanks very much for this excellent summary of last month's records and your impressions of the year as a whole. I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone in giving a huge thanks to yourself and the others who put their time into DYK day-in-day-out. As noted, there was a huge hole left behind when Yoninah tragically left us, and it's very encouraging that others have stepped up to fill that void and bring new ideas to the project in that time.
Also, I hear you on your "what I found interesting from the class" theme... I can identify with all that. I too have played with graphing calculators for hours, just making interesting shapes and exploring what different things look like. I can also sit for hours with a map, just charting out where the various roads or railways go and what their history was, not because I need to travel anywhere, but just because I admire the order and logic of it all. All things which play nicely into being a Wikipedian!
And let's be honest, while writing articles is great on its own, having a project like this one (and also GAN, FAC, the various contests etc.) where you get to validate and discuss those articles with others adds significantly to the satisfaction. Obviously my main role at DYK is to sanity-check the hooks on the final leg of their journey, and I apologise to anyone who may be annoyed by my pernickety points, but I only do it because I care about the project and I want our front page to represent the best of what we have to offer! So a happy new year to yourself Leeky and everyone else, and here's to much more entertainment and useful work in the coming year! — Amakuru (talk) 14:34, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
