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[M] Community: Did You Know Module
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Description

Background

Did You Know surfaces new or recently expanded Wikipedia articles through an informal community review process. It's one of Wikipedia's most beloved features and serves as a great entry point for readers to discover surprising or niche articles they wouldn't otherwise find. It also subtly highlights the ongoing work of Wikipedia's editing community.

User Story

As a reader browsing the Community Picks feed, I want to discover surprising facts from Wikipedia articles, so that I can explore topics I wouldn't normally come across.

Requirements

  • The module should display the title "Did you know?" with the subtitle "Interesting hooks from articles selected by volunteer editors"
  • Randomly select up to 3 facts should, display the snippet, and make the links in the snippet clickable, to visit the corresponding article. Links should have the have behavior as in-article clinks.
    • These should be randomly selected, because many languages do not refresh their "Did you know" section daily. Selecting different facts each day will keep this module fresh for users
  • The three dot more menu should be present on the module with options to Hide Module
  • Content should be sourced from the user's selected language wiki. If the module does not exist in the selected language wiki it should be hidden
  • Honor hyperlinks
  • Allow users to longpress on article links (use existing longpress menu
  • Add instrumentation
  • Add into Settings in its correct order: Featured Article, Top Read, Did You Know, ,** In the news, On this day, Picture of the day (from Commons),

Design Link

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Event Timeline

HNordeenWMF moved this task from Team Triage to Backlog on the App Experience board.
Mazevedo renamed this task from Community: Did You Know Module to [M] Community: Did You Know Module.Jul 2 2026, 5:39 PM
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