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Did You Know... that there is a Did You Know section at Simple Wikipedia?
No? Then read on to find out more...
The latest "project" to come to the Simple English Wikipedia, with the exception of this newsletter of course, is Did You Know?, or DYK? for short.
The suggestion was brought up many moons ago at Simple Talk by Flying Spaghetti Monster, and there was general community consensus for such a section. However, at the time, it was taken no further...
In October 2008 though, Bluegoblin7 brought the proposal back up, and also started working on a draft system. Input was soon found from the community, including Gwib and RyanCross and the process began to take shape! Although it was based off en-wp, the aim from the start was to create something new and related to Simple Wikipedia.
Since creation, the system has had 5 successful updates, and can be seen on the Main Page. It was recently the subject of some controversy over how to format the suggestions and also whether or not it was too complex, but this has now been laid to rest. Discussions are now underway as to how to improve it both rules wise and also how to credit nominators.
--BG7even 15:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
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