week14-Did you know?-LIUJUNYU

 Summary

Did you know?" is a featured section on the Wikipedia homepage that displays interesting facts from a set of new articles every day. These facts usually start with a sentence "Did you know...?" to guide readers to understand the new content that has just been created or greatly expanded in Wikipedia. The purpose of DYK is not only to promote new entries, but also a way to encourage novice editors to participate in writing and contribution. Eligible articles must be newly created or expanded to more than five times the original size in the past seven days, and must be peer-reviewed and have no major quality issues.

Reflection

What attracts me most about DYK is that it presents unpopular or fresh knowledge points to the public in a relaxed and interesting form. It does not require readers to read the entire article, but it can stimulate curiosity.

However, behind DYK is a highly systematic The DYK page is a unified and standardized process. Each nominated entry must be reviewed by senior users, including the accuracy of the content, the reliability of the source, the format, grammar, etc. This made me reflect that although Wikipedia is open, it is by no means a place for "writing casually". Even a funny story on the homepage must be based on rigorous editing.

nteresting discoveries

In the DYK page, I saw many surprising facts, such as: Did you know? The smallest post office in the world is actually built in a telephone booth? "Behind these seemingly insignificant knowledge, there is a detailed, rich and fascinating encyclopedia article. DYK not only helps us "dig up unpopular knowledge", this way of popularizing knowledge is easy in form, but also has far-reaching effects.

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