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, Adweek, March 15, 2010
Featured on Wikipedia's front page:
| DYK date
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Article
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Image
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Page views
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Note
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| October 23, 2009
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Suzuki Hayabusa
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18,500
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 Collab w/ Dennis
 WP MC
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| December 5, 2009
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Harry Hurt
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252
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 WP MC obituary
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| December 30, 2010
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Gavin Trippe
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825
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Collab w/ Dennis
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| February 15, 2011
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Daimler Reitwagen
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9,100
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Collab w/ Dennis
WP MC
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| February 26, 2011
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Amanda Staveley
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4,000
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| April 6, 2013
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Curtiss V-8 motorcycle
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2,614
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WP MC
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| December 3, 2013
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A. W. Piper
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972
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Collab w/ Dennis
 CWUG
Cascadia bio
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| December 4, 2013
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Kanichi Fujiwara
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1,837
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LDR
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| December 23, 2013
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Great Western Iron and Steel Company
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4,007
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Cascadia infrastructure
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| December 23, 2013
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Massimo Tamburini
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994
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WP MC obituary
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| October 28, 2014
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Kawasaki Ninja H2
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11,082
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WP MC
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| January 15, 2015
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Ariel Ace
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7,150
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WP MC
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| January 27, 2015
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Museum of Death
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7,310
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| April 7, 2015
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Rogue Beard Beer
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6,064
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 Cascadia bio
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| April 23, 2015
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Gerechtigkeitsspirale
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6,134
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Collab w/ Gerda
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| June 2, 2015
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Leonard's Bakery
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2,700
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Collab w/ czar
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| July 27, 2015
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Koma Kulshan Project
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1,661
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Cascadia infrastructure
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| September 4, 2015
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Wi-Fi deauthentication attack
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6,257
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| October 6, 2015
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Counter-apologetics
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5,925
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| May 13, 2016
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Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016)
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6,055
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Collab w/ SounderBruce
CWUG & Cascadia infrastructure
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| June 3, 2016
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Danell Lynn
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1,760
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LDR
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| June 3, 2016
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Cow tipping
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8,959
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 Collab w/ Finetooth and Montana
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| June 12, 2016
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Laurie Wolf
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1,094
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 Cascadia bio
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| June 28, 2016
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Stuart Anderson (restaurateur)
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4,016
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Obituary
Cascadia bio
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| July 13, 2016
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case/lang/veirs
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3,036
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25th DYK
Collab w/Another Believer
 Created during Wiki Loves Pride, 2016
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| December 9, 2016
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Hemp in Kentucky
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5,341
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 50,000 Challenge
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| December 29, 2016
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Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company
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2,750
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50,000 Challenge
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| February 19, 2017
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Ocosta Elementary School
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1,105
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Collab w/ SounderBruce
CWUG & Cascadia infrastructure
50,000 Challenge
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| February 25, 2017
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Bob Kramer
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3,200
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Cascadia bio
50,000 Challenge
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| April 11, 2017
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Neptune Theatre (Seattle)
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2,367
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Collab w/ SounderBruce
50,000 Challenge
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| September 22, 2017
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2017 Washington wildfires
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1,221
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50,000 Challenge
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| September 26, 2017
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2017 Montana wildfires
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4,614
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Collab w/ Montanabw
50,000 Challenge
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| December 7, 2017
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Manka Dhingra
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2,529
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Collab w/ SounderBruce, Ueutyi
50,000 Challenge
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| June 5–6, 2018
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Northwest Cannabis Solutions Satsop facility
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3,733
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420 Collaboration 2018
50,000 Challenge
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| July 6, 2018
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Tammie Jo Shults
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26,176
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co-created with several other authors & Women in Red
50,000 Challenge
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| August 23, 2018
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Denny Way
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1,919
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co-created with SounderBruce
50,000 Challenge
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| November 22, 2018
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Hyperion proto-supercluster
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4,046
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| April 14, 2019
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Submarine Memorial Chapel
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2,180
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50,000 Challenge
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| May 12, 2019
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Ted Sampley
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2,539
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co-created with Daniel Case
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| February 29, 2020
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Bellevue 600
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2,780
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co-created with SounderBruce
50,000 Challenge
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| June 15, 2022
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AK-47 (cannabis)
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TBD
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420 Collaboration 2022
Collab w/ Kingsif
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| December 13, 2023
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Al-Rantisi Hospital
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10,517
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Not proposed, but should have been[edit]- 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 [1].
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