Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Monthly wrap/October 2021

Thanks

 * Nice job. Please keep up the good work on this kind of monthly recap.  — Maile  (talk) 22:37, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Enjoyed, thank you! Noting also that I loved some of the "gang" DYK (LouisAlain, Grimes2 and myself) such as
 * ... that a comic award jury wrote about the characters of Nicolas Mahler that they "have no eyes, no ears, no mouths – but they undoubtedly have character"?
 * but with LouisAlain banned, they will enlighten us more rarely. With 50+ DYK this year, he was one of the more prolific contributors, but sadly we seem to have no room for character. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * looks like our October Wrap will now have its own archive page (see below). That being the case, I am inserting a link here to the community banning of LouisAlain, for clarity. He is indeed community banned, preventing him from contributing here, but as far as I can tell, the banning was not a result of anything at DYK. (Diff) — Maile  (talk) 19:45, 2 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I think leeky might want to up the dosage just a smidge. EEng 00:29, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * i'm not understanding? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 05:44, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Just teasing you about your manic enthusiasm. Keep up the good work. EEng 11:00, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, appreciate it :) my meth dosage is just fine, thank you very much theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 17:37, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a great summary !!! Thanks for all the energy that you bring to this project! Cheers and best wishes. Ktin (talk) 01:19, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Indeed, very good! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:28, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * glad you enjoyed! Hopefully I can make this a regular thing :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 05:43, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Awesome summary – thank you. There's an interesting backstory to the Anne Wyllie hook. A friend wrote the article and I suggested the theme for the hook. We then talked about it on Twitter (where all the journos hang out) as we needed somebody to write the story that she has a WP article because some snob asked who she was. Not sure whether this was the impetus for the media story that resulted but with it, we had a reliable source for our hook. And once the article had been featured, WWIII broke out on Wyllie's talk page over the listed scientific papers. My goodness me. Anyway, quite an eventful little article.  Schwede 66  08:44, 2 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Just a thought, if you go through with the idea of a regular monthly wrap up. Instead of these being archived in the regular DYK pages, maybe it's own separate subpage like WP:DYKA, then we could fondly look back on the project's accomplishments whenever we want. — Maile  (talk)
 * I agree, it would be a nice idea! Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 10:36, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * yes please --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:07, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * A sub-page is a very nice idea! Good luck. Ktin (talk) 15:24, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Done! WP:Did you know/Monthly wrap and WP:DYKW are created, but I'm not sure how to add them to the DYKbox (normal template editing doesn't seem to work) so I'll have to figure that out. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 17:31, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I think everything is on Template:DYKbox. The protection level is "autoconfirm", which I think you have been for years. You will notice at the bottom of the template are links for the template's sandbox and for a test case scenario.  Care to give it a try? — Maile  (talk) 18:55, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Done—it wasn't showing me my changes when i clicked "show preview", which was throwing me off. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 20:05, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * A couple of scattered thoughts. FYI, there is a part of this I have not figured out. Maybe you already have.  I think maybe this section cannot be automatically archived, because it would then be moved into the normal archive listings.  So, maybe each month, it will be a manual archive. Another idea occurred to me that won't require archiving. That is, post your future Monthly wrap directly onto the monthly wrap page, sectioned one month below another.  And just post a notice over here that the latest month has been posted, with a link from here to there. — Maile  (talk) 01:19, 3 November 2021 (UTC)  Actually, if you posted directly there, it would be more user friendly to post the latest month at the top, with the older months below that - less scrolling down for the reader. — Maile  (talk) 01:29, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * as long as i'm writing the thing, I don't see a problem in archiving it by hand, yeah—I'm archiving lots of the stuff on the talk page anyway. And smart to put newer ones on top, yeah theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 02:37, 3 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I think it's fun and I look forward to future installments, but we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves planning a special archiving apparatus at this stage. It will be perfectly safe in the regular archives. EEng 05:44, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * what are you talking about? i'm clearly never going to burn out or move on and i'm going to be writing these monthly recaps until the earth swallows me whole. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 05:52, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Gulp. EEng 06:00, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia tradition starts with the first edition: WikiProject Military history/News/Archives, Signpost/Archives, Administrators' newsletter/Archive. Chugga-chugga-chugging along — Maile  (talk) 15:14, 3 November 2021 (UTC)