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 New York City's Central Synagogue (pictured) has hosted churches and a mosque?
- ... that the Egyptian-Sudanese singer Nxdia took the "queer anthem" "She Likes a Boy" into the UK Singles Sales Chart?
- ... that there is a dispute within the Indian communist movement on whether the Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent in 1920 or Kanpur in 1925?
- ... that John Gould Stephenson fought at the Battle of Gettysburg while serving as the librarian of Congress?
- ... that the Swiss Party of Labour expelled its branch in Basel in 1988 after tensions over an occupation movement in the city?
- ... that between 2006 and 2007, Stacy Hollowell worked for basketball teams in Qatar, China, Bahrain and Lithuania?
- ... that on June 30, 1973, scientists set the record for the longest observation of a total solar eclipse, at 74 minutes of totality?
- ... that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott?
- ... that a ring-tailed monkey named Jenny threw billiard balls down a flight of stairs to alert firefighters to a fire in their own building?
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