This is a list of DYKs featured on Wikipedia and credited to me as creator or contributor. The Wikipedia front page gets ~10 million pageviews a day, so having your work appear there is kind of a big deal. Here's an example of its reach.
Over the weekend, prominent placement on Wikipedia's main page launched a nearly twenty-year-old Time magazine article about Scientology onto the Time site's "most-read" list. The jump in traffic reveals both the continued popularity of Scientology-related reporting and the power of Wikipedia to bring obscure or old stories to the forefront of Internet discussion. — Mike Taylor, Adweek, March 15, 2010
Featured
Featured on Wikipedia's front page:
DYK date |
Article |
Image |
Page views |
Note |
October 23, 2009 |
Suzuki Hayabusa |
|
18,500 |
Collab w/ Dennis WP MC |
December 5, 2009 |
Harry Hurt |
|
252 |
WP MC obituary |
December 30, 2010 |
Gavin Trippe |
|
825 |
Collab w/ Dennis |
February 15, 2011 |
Daimler Reitwagen |
|
9,100 |
Collab w/ Dennis WP MC |
February 26, 2011 |
Amanda Staveley |
|
4,000 |
|
April 6, 2013 |
Curtiss V-8 motorcycle |
|
2,614 |
WP MC |
December 3, 2013 |
A. W. Piper |
|
972 |
Collab w/ Dennis CWUG Cascadia bio |
December 4, 2013 |
Kanichi Fujiwara |
|
1,837 |
LDR |
December 23, 2013 |
Great Western Iron and Steel Company |
|
4,007 |
Cascadia infrastructure |
December 23, 2013 |
Massimo Tamburini |
|
994 |
WP MC obituary |
October 28, 2014 |
Kawasaki Ninja H2 |
|
11,082 |
WP MC |
January 15, 2015 |
Ariel Ace |
|
7,150 |
WP MC |
January 27, 2015 |
Museum of Death |
|
7,310 |
|
April 7, 2015 |
Rogue Beard Beer |
|
6,064 |
Cascadia bio |
April 23, 2015 |
Gerechtigkeitsspirale |
|
6,134 |
Collab w/ Gerda |
June 2, 2015 |
Leonard's Bakery |
|
2,700 |
Collab w/ czar |
July 27, 2015 |
Koma Kulshan Project |
|
1,661 |
Cascadia infrastructure |
September 4, 2015 |
Wi-Fi deauthentication attack |
|
6,257 |
|
October 6, 2015 |
Counter-apologetics |
|
5,925 |
|
May 13, 2016 |
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016) |
|
6,055 |
Collab w/ SounderBruce CWUG & Cascadia infrastructure |
June 3, 2016 |
Danell Lynn |
|
1,760 |
LDR |
June 3, 2016 |
Cow tipping |
|
8,959 |
Collab w/ Finetooth and Montana |
June 12, 2016 |
Laurie Wolf |
|
1,094 |
Cascadia bio |
June 28, 2016 |
Stuart Anderson (restaurateur) |
|
4,016 |
Obituary Cascadia bio |
July 13, 2016 |
case/lang/veirs |
|
3,036 |
25th DYK
Collab w/Another Believer Created during Wiki Loves Pride, 2016 |
December 9, 2016 |
Hemp in Kentucky |
|
5,341 |
50,000 Challenge |
December 29, 2016 |
Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company |
|
2,750 |
50,000 Challenge |
February 19, 2017 |
Ocosta Elementary School |
|
1,105 |
Collab w/ SounderBruce CWUG & Cascadia infrastructure 50,000 Challenge |
February 25, 2017 |
Bob Kramer |
|
3,200 |
Cascadia bio 50,000 Challenge |
April 11, 2017 |
Neptune Theatre (Seattle) |
|
2,367 |
Collab w/ SounderBruce 50,000 Challenge |
September 22, 2017 |
2017 Washington wildfires |
|
1,221 |
50,000 Challenge |
September 26, 2017 |
2017 Montana wildfires |
|
4,614 |
Collab w/ Montanabw 50,000 Challenge |
December 7, 2017 |
Manka Dhingra |
|
2,529 |
Collab w/ SounderBruce, Ueutyi
50,000 Challenge |
June 5–6, 2018 |
Northwest Cannabis Solutions Satsop facility |
|
3,733 |
420 Collaboration 2018
50,000 Challenge |
July 6, 2018 |
Tammie Jo Shults |
|
26,176 |
co-created with several other authors & Women in Red 50,000 Challenge |
August 23, 2018 |
Denny Way |
|
1,919 |
co-created with SounderBruce 50,000 Challenge |
November 22, 2018 |
Hyperion proto-supercluster |
|
4,046 |
|
April 14, 2019 |
Submarine Memorial Chapel |
|
2,180 |
50,000 Challenge |
May 12, 2019 |
Ted Sampley |
|
2,539 |
co-created with Daniel Case |
February 29, 2020 |
Bellevue 600 |
|
2,780 |
co-created with SounderBruce 50,000 Challenge |
June 15, 2022 |
AK-47 (cannabis) |
|
TBD |
420 Collaboration 2022
Collab w/ Kingsif |
December 13, 2023 |
Al-Rantisi Hospital |
|
10,517 |
Failed
Not proposed, but should have been
- Adult Use of Marijuana Act – during election week, between 7 November and 11 November 2016, it averaged >1,000 pageviews every day with a peak of 18,294 on election day. For the full week it was viewed over 28,000 times. From inception till end of 2016, over 50,000 times .
Project/Portal DYK
Featured on a project portal page:
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