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Tip of the Day
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 Introduction to tables
Tables are a common way of displaying data. There is a four part guide Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup about putting tables in pages. It consists of these sections:
This tutorial provides a guide on making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style. – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Tip of the day...
The Wikipedia Curriculum
The outline of academic disciplines is an overview of and topical guide to academic branches of knowledge. The outline presents the major fields of study you might find in a college course catalog. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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The Tip of the Day project provides a different piece of advice for using Wikipedia every day. Like the Picture of the Day, you can include it on your userpage by adding {{totd}} somewhere (at the top of your talk page is a good place for it). The randomized version (displayed above) is {{totd-random}}, and shows a different tip each time it is displayed on your screen. Other formats for the TOTD exist, such as the more compact {{totd3}}, or you can make your own by including {{Wikipedia:Tip of the day/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} on your userpage (which includes the raw text, without any formatting) and then enclose it in your own formatting. To float the tip of the day to the right of content (as it is displayed here), place this code where you want the tip to show up: {{right|{{totd3}}}}.
Style tips
[edit]A spin off of the tip of the day, this is another template that provides useful instruction a little at a time.
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 Number signs
Her album reached #1 in the charts.
Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}} |
To place it on your userpage, copy and paste this:
{{Styletips}}
Barnometer
[edit]This is an example of a Barnometer, to display the barnstars you've received in a humorous timescale. You can check the coding and then tweak it according to your own needs. Hold your mouse pointer over each barnstar to read each greeting.
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         ![The Content Creativity Barnstar. For everyone here [1] - you've done an incredible job working hard at working together. The section is coming together without any edit wars; there've been no personal remarks and in general, everyone has been incredibly civil and helpful. This is a very impressive way to turn things around - feel free to yank this barnstar and put it in your own user space :) Shell 19:21, 22 November 2008 (UTC)](https://sivegame.netlify.app/host-https-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Content_Creativity_Barnstar.png){kind=small}   
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Mottos/slogans/quotes/thoughtboxes
[edit]Mottos
[edit]There's a motto of the day project, called, you guessed it: Wikipedia:Motto of the day. To use it, just place {{Motd}} on your user page!
Here's what it looks like:
Today's motto...
→ Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Thoughtboxes
[edit]This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:
Quotes
[edit]Quote of the week: {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Quote}}
| “ | All of us are put in boxes by our family, by our religion, by our society, our moment in history, even our own bodies. Some people have the courage to break free.
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Random quote: {{Randomquote}}
Show anotherNothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Pics and images
[edit]There is a huge selection of pictures on Wikipedia and its sister site Wikimedia Commons. Pictures can be a powerful way to express yourself...
Pictures can be found all over Wikipedia, but it can be very time-consuming to hunt for them in the encyclopedia's articles. Another option is to browse Wikipedia's collections...
Image categories
[edit]Some images can be found in the categorical index, at:
But most of the images used on Wikipedia are kept at:
- Wikimedia Commons (plus a whole lot more)
Featured pictures
[edit]Featured pictures can also be found in the picture of the day archive:
A monthly archive of Wikipedia's featured pictures
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| 2006: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2007: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2008: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2009: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2010: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2011: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2012: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2013: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2014: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2015: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2016: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2017: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2018: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2019: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2020: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2021: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2022: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2023: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2024: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2025: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
There is usually a long delay before a featured picture is scheduled into the picture of the day system, so two other places to look for featured pictures are:
Picture(s) of the day
[edit]The Picture of the Day, which changes daily, is currently displayed every day on the Main Page, and you can use it to decorate your userpage as well...
Here's what the various picture of the day templates look like. To place them on your user page, include the corresponding double-curly bracket code, and the picture will be displayed automagically:
{{pic of the day}}
{{POTD}}
{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}
Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes. Born in Indianapolis to an Episcopal minister, she moved with her family throughout the United States as a child. After marrying her first husband, she moved to Paris to study music at the Sorbonne. After her divorce and return to the United States, Graham Du Bois took positions at Howard University and Morgan College before completing her BA and master's at Oberlin College in Ohio. Her first major work was the opera Tom-Tom, which premiered in Cleveland in 1932. She married W. E. B. Du Bois in 1951, and the couple later lived in Ghana, Tanzania and China. She won several prizes, including an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her 1949 biography of Benjamin Banneker. This photograph of Graham Du Bois was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1946.
Photograph credit: Carl Van Vechten; restored by Adam Cuerden
If you'd rather have it without the text (to make it smaller), you can use {{Wikipedia:POTD/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}_{{CURRENTDAY}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}} instead.
Alternate picture of the day
[edit]To display the alternate picture of the day from the no-restrictions anybody-can-add-a-pic-right-now picture project, use {{rpotd}}, which displays this:
Unlike PotD, these pictures are not featured. You can use {{rpotd}} to add the daily random picture to your userpage.
To display the alternate cool random picture of the day from User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator, use {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator}}, which displays this:
Commons picture of the day
[edit]You can also display the Commons Picture of the Day, which is different from the featured picture displayed on the main page, with {{WP:Wikimedia Commons/POTD}}. Which shows this:
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Crash landing of a U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat (Number 30) of Fighting Squadron 2 (VF-2) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), into the carrier's port side 20mm gun gallery, 10 November 1943. Lieutenant Walter L. Chewning, Jr., USNR, the Catapult Officer, is seen climbing up the plane's side to assist the pilot from the burning aircraft. The pilot, Ensign Byron M. Johnson, escaped without significant injury. Enterprise was then en route to support the Gilberts Operation. Note the plane's ruptured belly fuel tank. Today is Veterans Day in the United States.
Fun art
[edit]Wikibreak | Third opinion $220 | Chance ? | Request for comment $220 | Arbitration $240 | Jimbo Wales $200 | In the news $260 | On this day $260 | MediaWiki $150 | Did you know $280 | You are banned! |
| RFA $200 | WIKIOPOLY | FPC $300 | ||||||||
| PERM $180 | POTD $300 | |||||||||
| Community discussion | Community discussion | |||||||||
| Teahouse $180 | FAC $320 | |||||||||
| Developers $200 | Rouge admin $200 | |||||||||
| Deletion review $160 | Chance ? | |||||||||
| AFD $140 | TFA $350 | |||||||||
| Wikimedia Foundation $150 | Edit war (pay $100) | |||||||||
| CSD $140 | Main Page $400 |
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BANNED! Just browsing | WikiProject Spam $120 | UAA $100 | Chance ? | AIV $100 | Admin cabal $200 | Teh Drahmaz (pay $200) | AN $60 | Community discussion | ANI $60 | Go Collect $200 salary as you pass  |
Signs
[edit]Troll-free zone
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WikiLove-zone
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Logos & symbols
[edit]- Stolen from Supernerd11's page,
<div style="position:absolute; top:-13.2em; left:-15em; background:#f6f6f6; z-index:1;"></div>
- should create a logo that roughly covers the
boringdefault logo. This needs to be tweaked a bit, but gives you an empiric formula of sorts.
    
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Jokes, including prank markup
[edit]Caught you
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Instead of doing something useful, You have been staring at this page since 17:00 Monday, November 11, 2024 UTC. |
Other template
[edit]Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.