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DYK's April (and March!) wrapped, 2022

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Sam Seaborn: Generally speaking, we try to do it on the first of every month.
Toby Ziegler: We've done it twice in twelve months.
Sam: We're a little behind.
From The West Wing's "The Crackpots and These Women" (1999)

Yeah, that's right... this is still a thing. Hello everyone, and welcome to DYK's April/March/whatever the hell wrap! For those of you who are new to this, sometime around the beginning of every month (or every two months, when I just... don't), I try to review the last month at DYK in terms of our most well-performing hooks, our policy developments, and the state of the prep sets. I also (try) for humour! To start off, a round of applause for some of our best-performing hooks of the past couple months! Did you know...

That shoe-mirrors was part of our April Fools' Day set for this year! We extended the set to ten hooks, and I'm quite proud of the results :) Plus, Lisa Winter seemed to like her hook along with the rest of us :)

It's been... a busy two months. We settled our policy on Russia/Ukraine hooks throughout the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Without gravedancing, I'll say that we had quite a bit of trouble with a new DYKer named Venkat TL, leading to 1, 2, 3... a lot of discussions. We also have an ongoing (can someone please close it) discussion on a bot that records post-promotion hook pages on the nomination's talk page. I've opened a BRFA, but it's not getting much attention so far. Hey, speaking of unclosed discussions, Has the SOHA been moved yet?

no.

Shucks. On a brighter note, we've had quite a few new prep builders getting their sea legs! A warm welcome aboard to this Voyage of the Damned to Z1720, Bruxton, and Rlink2, and thanks to SL93, Kavyansh.Singh (yes I know you've got big Featured Articles to write or whatever), 97198, and Kingsif for keepin' DYK goin'. Just as well, too, because we've been in the early days of piloting a new program to assist with prep building! I call it PSHAW, which stands for the Prep Set's Half-Assed Workbench. I also attempted to debut a web program for counting DYK nominations (the Plaintext Automatic Nomination Tallying System, or PANTS),[a] but it turned out to be buggy as crap so that's shelved for a later time. My WP:DYKSTATS program now also does its best to notify nominators when their hooks are on the stats page with {{DYK views}}.

And now, for the quirky hooks that went unappreciated by our readership![b] Did you know...

That's all I've got for you—sorry that it was gone last month! Good luck to all of our nominators, thank you to all of our prep builders and @DYK admins: ; have a great May, y'all!

Notes

  1. ^ It really must be unfortunate for y'all that I get to name the programs I write; if SD0001 wrote it, it would've just been called "DYK-promotion-helper" or something.
  2. ^ Some also went unappreciated by me, since we kinda ran out of quirkies for a while there...

theleekycauldron (talkcontribs) (she/they) 22:31, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]