Dispatches: Did You Know ...
... that Did You Know (DYK) is the section on Wikipedia's Main Page that highlights our best new and expanded articles from the previous five days?
DYK features hooks—brief, catchy phrases or surprising facts—taken from these articles. An interesting hook attracts readers, encouraging them to click through to learn more. The DYK section is also a way to thank editors who create new content, and to encourage other editors to contribute to and improve that content and the encyclopedia as a whole. DYK entries appear on the Main Page for at least six hours. The section is updated as many as four times a day, and about 800 articles have appeared over the past month—that's more than 25 a day! DYK shows how the encyclopedia continues to evolve, and how editors are constantly adding fascinating new content.
The DYK program has been running for more than four years; among its editors are prolific contributors who have been responsible for hundreds of these snippets of information. You too can nominate an article at the DYK suggestion area.