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Bharatpedia:Did you know
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Bharatpedia:Did you know (DYK) is the project page for the "Did you know" section on the Main Page. The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section. The choice of articles is subject to a set of criteria that are set out on this page.
More general discussion of the main page takes place at Talk:Main Page, and errors are reported at Bharatpedia:Main Page/Errors.
Aims and objectives[edit]
Bharatpedia's goal is to build and maintain an encyclopedia covering all branches of human knowledge. Hundreds of new articles are created and many more are expanded each day on the English Bharatpedia. DYK showcases new and improved content by presenting a series of facts ("hooks"), some of them accompanied by images, which link to selected articles. The hooks appear for a limited period in the "Did you know...?" box on the Main Page. Editors whose articles appear in DYK will receive an acknowledgement on their user talk pages. The choice of articles is subject to a series of criteria (see DYK rules below). Editors may nominate their own or someone else's work for a DYK appearance.
DYK aims to achieve the following five goals:
- To showcase new and improved content, illustrating to readers the continuous improvement and expansion of Bharatpedia's corpus of articles;
- To highlight the variety of information on Bharatpedia, thereby providing an insight into the range of material that Bharatpedia covers.
- To present facts about a range of topics which may not necessarily otherwise receive Main Page exposure;
- To acknowledge the work that editors do to expand and improve Bharatpedia, encouraging them to continue their efforts and thereby contributing to editor retention and ongoing content improvement;
- To encourage readers to edit articles that appear on DYK or start their own, thus facilitating the recruitment of new editors.
What DYK is not[edit]
DYK is not:
- A smaller-scale version of either featured content or Good Articles, though selected Good Articles do appear in the DYK box. Articles must meet the basic criteria set out on this page but do not have to be of very high quality. It is fine for articles to be incomplete (though not unfinished), to have red links, to be capable of being expanded or improved further, and so on. As DYK's main purpose is to showcase new and improved content, it is not expected that articles appearing on DYK would be considered among the best on Bharatpedia.
- A collection of general trivia. The articles featured are specifically new and improved ones that meet the criteria set out below.
- A means of advertising, or of promoting commercial or political causes. While it is fine to cover topics of commercial or political interest, DYK must not provide an inappropriate advantage for such causes (e.g. during election campaigns or product launches).
DYK rules[edit]
DYK consists of a series of "hooks", which are interesting facts taken from Bharatpedia's newest content, of the format "Did you know that...?" Thus, to nominate something to appear on DYK, an editor must either write or identify new content (see below for what qualifies as "new") and propose an interesting "hook".
DYK is only for articles that have achieved one of the following within the past seven days:
- Created
- Expanded at least fivefold
- Promoted to good article status
For articles initially developed outside of article namespace, the date the article first appears in article space is counted as the first day towards the DYK seven-day rule.
Any user may nominate a DYK suggestion; self-nominations are encouraged. To make a nomination submit it here.
Eligibility criteria[edit]
Four basic criteria are used to determine whether a nomination is eligible for DYK, together with a review requirement. Other criteria may arise as a result of community discussion or policy (more details appear at Bharatpedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines), but the following criteria account for most cases:
- New – A nominated article must be new (when nominated).
- For DYK purposes, a "new" article is no more than seven days old, and may not consist of text spun off from a pre-existing article.
- Former redirects, stubs, disambiguation pages, and other pages in which the prose portion has been expanded fivefold or more within the past seven days are also acceptable as "new" articles. The content with which the article has been expanded must be new content, not text copied from other articles. The length of both the old and new versions of the article is calculated based on prose character count, not word count. Prose character count excludes wiki markup, templates, lists, tables, and references. See BP:DYKcheck for instructions and details.
- Articles that have been worked on exclusively in a user or user talk subpage or at articles for creation or in the Draft namespace and then moved (or in some cases pasted) to the article mainspace are considered new as of the date they reach the mainspace.
- An article is ineligible for DYK if it has previously appeared on the main page as bold link in "Did you know", "In the news", or the prose section of "On this day". (Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not count.)
- Articles that are translations from other wikis count as new articles.
- Articles designated as Good articles within the past seven days, regardless of whether they were expanded, are also eligible.
- Long enough – The article must be of sufficient length.
- Articles must have a minimum of 1,500 characters of prose (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables etc.) The number of characters may be measured using this script (most accurate) or this one or this tool.
- DYK articles may freely reuse public domain text per Bharatpedia's usual policy, with proper attribution. However, because the emphasis at DYK is on new and original content, text copied verbatim from public domain sources, or which closely paraphrases such sources, is excluded both from the 1,500 minimum character count for new articles, and from the ×5 expansion count for ×5 expanded articles.
- Lists: Proposed lists need 1,500+ characters of prose, aside from the listed items themselves.
- In practice, articles longer than 1,500 characters may still be rejected as too short, at the discretion of the selecting reviewers.
- Cited hook – The fact(s) mentioned in the hook must be cited in the article. (See more information under The hook, below.) Facts should have an inline citation. The article as a whole should use inline, cited sources.
- The hook should include a definite fact that is mentioned in the article and interesting to a broad audience.
- Each fact in the hook must be supported in the article by at least one inline citation to a reliable source, appearing no later than the end of the sentence(s) offering that fact. Citations at the end of the paragraph are not sufficient. This rule applies even when a citation would not be required for the purposes of the article.
- Within policy – Articles for DYK must conform to the core policies of Verifiability, Living Person Biographies, and Copyright. Nominations should be rejected if an inspection reveals that they are not based on reliable sources, violate BP:BLP, or have problems with the close paraphrasing or copyright violations of images and/or text.
- Articles must meet the neutral point of view policy. Articles on living individuals are carefully checked to ensure that no unsourced or poorly sourced negative material is included. Articles and hooks that focus unduly on negative aspects of living individuals or promote one side of an ongoing dispute should be avoided.
- Review requirement (QPQ) – For every nomination you make you must review one other nomination (unrelated to you)—this is called quid pro quo or QPQ. The review must address all five criteria listed here.
Exception: If, at the time a nomination is promoted to the main page, its nominator has fewer than five DYK credits (whether or not self-nominated) then the nominator is exempt from QPQ.- You can do your QPQ review before or after you make your nomination, but for your nomination to be approved you will need to provide a link, at your nomination, to your completed QPQ review. For help in learning the reviewing process, see the reviewers' guide.
- Qualifying QPQs need to be full reviews, and not simply a "check mark." Ideally, a QPQ should be submitted within a week of a nomination. After one week, and a reminder to the nominator, a nomination may be closed as "incomplete." QPQs do not expire and may be used at any time for a future DYK nomination.
The hook[edit]
Format[edit]
- The title of the new article (or the text that pipes to it) must be in bold and linked to the new article.
- The hook should start with an asterisk (*) to create a bullet, then a space, three periods (not the ellipsis character …) and a space; and end with a question mark. Example:
* ... that '''[[milk]]''' can come from cows?
- The hook should be concise: no more than about 200 characters (including spaces and the question mark, but not including the
..., the space immediately following the..., or any(pictured)). While 200 is a hard limit, hooks near or at this limit may still be rejected at the discretion of reviewers and administrators. This tool can be used for counting words. - If a passage from a reliable non-English source is quoted in the article as translated by a Bharatpedia editor (because no published translation is available) a phrase from that translation can be quoted in the hook, subject to the discretion of the selecting reviewers and administrators. Ideally the nominator will vouch for the translation from their personal knowledge.
- A hook is subject without notice to copy-editing as it moves to the main page. The nature of the DYK process makes it impractical to consult users over every such edit. Watch the suggestions page to ensure that no issues have been raised about your hook; if you do not respond to them, your hook may not be featured at all.
- About eight hooks are usually selected at once, depending on page balance, so the items selected fit with whatever else is on the main page at that time.
Content[edit]
- The hook should refer to established facts that are unlikely to change and should be relevant for more than just novelty or newness.
- The hook should be neutral.
- Articles and hooks that focus unduly on negative aspects of living individuals should be avoided.
- Articles and hooks featuring election candidates up to 30 days before an election in which they are standing should be avoided, unless the hook is a "multi" that includes bolded links to new articles on all the main candidates.
- If the subject is a work of fiction or a fictional character, the hook must involve the real world in some way.
- When you write the hook, please make it "hooky", that is, short, punchy, catchy, and likely to draw the readers into wanting to read the article – as long as they don't misstate the article content.
Images[edit]
- The first hook in the set on the main page must have an associated image.
- Fair-use images are not permitted on the main page. The image must be free and properly licensed (PD, GFDL, CC, etc.).
- The image must be suitable, attractive, interesting, and must display well at 120 x 133 px resolution.
- It must already be in the article; and
- It must be relevant to the article.
- The first hook should be modified to include (pictured) in the appropriate place to make the connection to the image. If necessary, a slightly longer addition can be made if unclear from context, e.g., (pictured, flag of Zdxyrastan).
- Pictures and videos used in all DYK articles should be suitably licensed: PD, GFDL, CC, etc., including fair use where appropriately applied.
- The standard image and video code is <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;" id="mp-dyk-img">{{main page image|image=filename.jpg|caption=Caption|width=120x133}}</div>.
- Administrators: when you add an image to DYK, it is automatically protected, so simply add an {{mprotected}} notice to the image description page (or {{C-uploaded}} plus a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).
- Sounds: Sounds accompanying the DYK hook should have similar qualities to pictures, and should be formatted using
{{DYK listen|filename.ogg|Brief description}}
The DYK process[edit]
- Rules (BP:DYK and BP:DYKAR) – how DYK works
- DYK talk (BT:DYK) – for general discussion of the project
- Includes issues with current or past nominations which may need wider discussion than on the corresponding nomination page (in which case add a note to the nomination page).
- Nominations (T:TDYK) – where nominations are proposed and discussed
- The nomination is checked against DYK criteria; reviewers may also suggest improvements or alternatives to the hook.
- Preps and Queues (T:DYK/Q)
- Prep areas – where hook "sets" are assembled and finalized – See How to promote a hook.
- Queues – to which finalized hook sets are moved from "prep" by an administrator, and where they wait to be moved (by a bot) to the Main Page – The admin moving the hooks to the live template may edit or reject any hook at their discretion.
- Rotation – After 120 or more approved nominations, we rotate to two sets a day and when we drop below 60, we rotate to one set a day.
- Old DYK entries are archived at Bharatpedia:Recent additions after they leave the main page.
- Errors (BP:ERRORS) – to report concerns about DYK items currently on the main page – If necessary an admin may edit or replace a hook on main page by changing the DYK template.
- If a factual error is reported when the hooks are on the front page, try to replace the hook with another fact from the article, rather than just removing it.
- In the case it has to be removed, try to replace it with another hook from the suggestions page.
- If it is the first hook and hence has an associated picture, you must replace it with another hook with a picture.