Context
The apps are interested in leveraging "Did you know" content for future projects (Explore feed, Games, etc). It would be useful to know to what extent we can show this content across different languages.
Task
- Engineer add Current languages supported: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/services/wikifeeds/+/refs/heads/master/etc/dyk-sites.js#27
- @PM provide list of priority languages for evaluation: list of most App popular languages that have DYK https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JUjrsi68ySpUgxYwjrUN5cNzdN8k32xIZ_DHexs-Qs4/edit?gid=1748666878#gid=1748666878
- @Engineers assess which languages in the list of might be reliably be used for "Did you know" content on Wikifeeds based on
- How many facts are consistently displayed on the main page
- How often the facts are updated
- Engineers add languages that support daily "Did you know" facts to Wikifeeds service
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know
Notes
Go to the English did you know template and look at "other language" versions of that page, which reveals a large number of languages indeed.
However, be careful: many languages might technically have a "did you know" page, but it's actually unused, or archived, etc. For example, the Spanish version exists, but is archived and unused since 2012. So, every language must be checked manually, whether the corresponding page is actually active and used on that language's Main Page.