week14 - after reading
1. Wikipedia's goal is to create and maintain an encyclopedia that covers all areas of human knowledge. In English Wikipedia, hundreds of new articles are created and expanded daily. DYK presents a set of facts (hooks) to showcase new and improved content, some of which accompany images, which are linked to selected articles. The hook appears in "Did you know..." for a limited period of time. We show new and improved content, and show readers continuous improvement and expansion of Wikipedia's article corpus. 2. We present facts on a variety of topics that may not require main page exposure. By acknowledging the work that editors do to expand and improve Wikipedia, it contributes to the retention of editors and continuous improvement of content by encouraging editors to continue to work. Encourage readers to edit articles appearing in DYK or start their own articles to facilitate recruitment of new editors. Good selected articles appear in the DYK box, but feature co...