Reading14—CHEN XINLEI

 Summary

 Wikipedia's "Did you know" (DYK) is a section on the Wikipedia homepage that highlights interesting, new, or little-known facts. A piece of DYK content is updated on the Wikipedia homepage every day.The purpose of DYK is to interest readers and show them knowledge points that they may not have known before. These knowledge points can cover various topics, including history, science, culture, geography, art and so on.

DYK aims to achieve the following five goals:

①　To showcase new and improved content, illustrating to readers the continuous improvement and expansion of Wikipedia's corpus of articles;

②　To highlight the variety of information on Wikipedia, thereby providing an insight into the range of material that Wikipedia covers.

③　To present facts about a range of topics which may not necessarily otherwise receive Main Page exposure;

④　To acknowledge the work that editors do to expand and improve Wikipedia, encouraging them to continue their efforts and thereby contributing to editor retention and ongoing content improvement;

⑤　To encourage readers to edit articles that appear on DYK or start their own, thus facilitating the recruitment of new editors.

Typically, DYK content is presented as a question or statement, followed by a short explanation or background information. This content is provided by Wikipedia community members and contributors, and is reviewed and selected to appear on the Wikipedia homepage.

Interesting point

DYK consists of a series of "hooks", which are interesting facts taken from Wikipedia'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".

Discussion

What do you think Wikipedia can do to improve DYK? Could such an improvement attract more editors?

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