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:

Australian Church building

... that Charles Strong founded the Australian Church (building pictured) after facing heresy charges, and attracted many elite congregants including a future prime minister?
... that Baek Se-hee wrote I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki?
... that, after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, France Gall was slapped by a fellow competitor?
... that some people who witnessed the sinking of the May Flint thought that it was a public display?
... that the Energy Polarizer claimed to enhance the performance of Holden Commodores with crystals?
... that MrBeast offered a $15,000 bounty to anyone who could defeat YouTuber Technoblade in the tournament Minecraft Monday?
... that the symbol of Slender Man originates from the web series Marble Hornets?
... that cyclist Sepp Kuss logged 547,019 metres (1,794,682 ft) of elevation gain in 2023?
... that the Minnesota and Wisconsin National Guards may have shot cannonballs across the Mississippi River at each other during artillery competitions at Camp Lakeview?

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