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:

Dutch women's 4 × 400 metres relay team in 2023

... that the Dutch women's 4 × 400 metres relay team (pictured), having never won a medal before, won European titles in 2021, in 2022, in 2023, in 2024, and in 2025?
... that teenage King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem fought one-handed and still went to battle after becoming blind and immobile at 22?
... that 32,000 children auditioned for three main roles in HBO's Harry Potter TV series?
... that Robert Jacomb-Hood defied his father's wishes and became a railway engineer?
... that police investigated the European Australian Movement after it distributed letters carrying a slogan from Nazi Germany?
... that Algerian gymnast Mohamed Lazhari was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun?
... that Felix Frankfurter coined the phrase "burn the house to roast the pig" when writing about literary censorship in Butler v. Michigan?
... that King Combs released a collaborative EP with Kanye West in support of his father, Sean "Diddy" Combs?
... that the video game Baldur's Gate 3 won so many awards that its creators collected them in rotating teams to avoid impacting development?

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