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Tip of the day...
Displaying tips on your user page

If you would like to display the Wikipedia tip of the day on your User page, here is how:

Edit your User page and insert one or more of the following bolded strings (including the four curly braces), preview your edit, and when it looks right, save it.

To see a visual display of the below templates check out the Tip of the Day Display template gallery.

  • {{totd}} – the main userspace version of the tip of the day template, with border, centered in the middle of the page. Complete with inspirational light bulb. Border color can be custom modified.
  • {{totd b}} – a more compact version of the above template. Useful for columns.
  • {{totd3}} – a purple box version, useful for displaying the tip in columns.
  • {{totd-random}} – this is the tip of the moment template, which automatically displays a different tip every time you enter a page it is on. If it doesn't update, try clearing your browser cache.
  • {{totd-tomorrow}} – this shows tomorrow's tip, and is used by Wikipedia tipsters to make sure that the tips are up-to-date and corrected before they go live.
  • {{tip of the day}} – the borderless version, with light bulb.
  • {{tip of the day with h3 heading}} – the tip in heading/paragraph format (No light bulb).
  • {{totd2}} – the borderless version used on Wikipedia's Help page (which already has its own borders). (No light bulb).
  • {{totd CP}} – like the help page version, but with a box and light bulb. Spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in.
  • {{totd-static}} –  like the totd version but the date is static. You have to manually change the date. Good for testing purposes.
See also:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}

Tips about Wikipedia as a whole

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Tips on accessing Wikipedia pages

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Finding your way around Wikipedia and beyond

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Tips on searching

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Getting help

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Tips for contributors on getting started

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Tips on working with articles

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Tips on editing

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Style tips

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From Wikipedia:Styletips:

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Category tips

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Tips on working with specific types of pages

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List tips

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Disambiguation page tips

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Tips on working with images

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Boilerplate/template tips

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User page tips

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Other ways to contribute

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Communicating with other editors

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Watchdogging (monitoring) Wikipedia

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Configuring and customizing your account

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Tips on working faster

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Shortcuts

Navigation

MetaTips

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Be sure to check for duplication - do not include them if they are already there!
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Tip of the moment...
Brilliant pictures
Sample photo

You probably know that Wikipedia's best articles become Featured Articles. But did you know that a similar process exists for images? Go to Featured Picture Candidates to help judge which images are both attractive and valuable to Wikipedia.

Of course, the best can be found on featured pictures. Many of these photos are taken by Wikipedians. If you are a photographer, you can add yourself to the list, or encourage others by nominating great photos you come across. Feel free to use featured pictures in your own works (according to the terms on the image description page).

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

See also

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Tip of the day related
Wikipedia:Tip of the day – main page
Chronological list of tips
Alphabetical list of tips
Tip display template types
Tip display template gallery
Manual of Style related
Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
Wikipedia:Styletips – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting n a bullet-point format
Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule – a reading schedule designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Manual of Style
General formatting
Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to improve articles
Help:Cheatsheet – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup
Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts – summaries of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in a bullet-point format
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