User:Bri/DYK

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

Featured
Featured on Wikipedia's front page:

Failed

 * Cleveland CycleWerks — July 2012 — failed review
 * Youyang Gu COVID model – May 2021 — failed review

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:
 * Portal:U.S. Roads/Did you know/May 2012 -- International Selkirk Loop