Wikipedia:Today's second feature
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Today's second feature is a section on the Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Classic 2006), a main page alternative that displays the style of the Main Page in February 2006, where additional areas of Wikipedia are displayed. On weekdays it highlights new articles with the Did You Know section (DYK). On weekends it shows the Picture of the Day (POTD) from Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.
This rotating section was originally implemented in July 2005 as a compromise after there were requests to add the POTD to the Main Page, combined with complaints that DYK was badly maintained at the time (see archived discussion). Today's second feature appeared on the Main Page until a new design was implemented in March 2006.
Current version of this section on the Classic 2006 Main Page:
- ... that Clark House (pictured) hosted Cold War meetings?
- ... that a 2022 book lamented that American painter Edna Hibel did not have a Wikipedia article?
- ... that there are more than 9,000 swamps in Belarus?
- ... that before becoming a voice actor, Kenichirou Matsuda attended law school trying to become a civil servant?
- ... that the first Hindu temple in Wisconsin was built "in the middle of nowhere"?
- ... that Alan Choe was tasked with developing Queenstown, Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s?
- ... that Google's Client Hints proposal was initially classified as "harmful" by Mozilla?
- ... that Dick Walker's discovery of Saturn's moon Epimetheus was only realized twelve years later?
- ... that Richard Linklater's original concept for Dazed and Confused took place entirely within a car as its characters listened to ZZ Top?
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