These sections should probably still be there, but a moderation system should be in place.
On This Day could be pre-moderated months ahead.
Runxi Yu referenced this ticket in commit 884a39d.
On This Day was completed using legacy code in
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In The News was completed using legacy code in
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Both On This Day and In The News use legacy code written by Albert, which depends on using BeautifulSoup to parse Wikipedia's HTML, which is unstable. We have to switch to the API sometime.