PAI:Did you know

Did you know (DYK) shows short, interesting facts from articles in the Did you know ... section of the Main Page. Anyone with an account can nominate an article.

Nominate an article

Type the exact article title and click the button. A nomination page opens with a form to fill in.

Hook rules

• Starts with "... that" and ends with a question mark.
• Short: under about 200 characters, with the article title linked in bold.
• The fact must be stated and cited in the article.
• The article must exist and be more than a stub (the form checks for at least 1,500 bytes).
• Neutral tone: no promotion, no unsourced claims.
• Interesting to a general reader, not only experts.

Reviewing a nomination

1. Open the nomination and read the hook and the linked article.
2. Check the facts in the article's references.
3. Discuss any problems in the Discussion section.
4. Edit the template: set status=approved (or rejected) and add reviewer=WikiSysop (talk).
5. You cannot approve your own nomination.

For admins: promoting hooks

1. Open an approved nomination.
2. Add the hook to a rotating set, or create Template:PAI DYK/YYYY-MM-DD to schedule it for one day.
3. If you added a new set, raise the number on Template:PAI DYK/Count.
4. On the nomination, set status=promoted and promoted= to the date.
5. Add {{PAI DYK talk}} to the article's talk page.

See also

• Archive of past hooks
• Template:PAI DYK — how the picker works