Wikipedia:Tip of the day

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How to link to a section of an article

Sometimes it is necessary to refer to a specific section of a page when linking, rather than the whole page.

You can create a link to any subheading on any page in Wikipedia by including a # character followed by the subheading at the end of a link. For example:

Wikipedia:Community Portal#Things to do.

In all section links, be sure to use a piped link for readability, like this:

:[[Wikipedia:Community Portal#Things to do|Things to do]]

which looks like this:

Things to do

If a section title changes, rather than go red/inactive, the link will lead to the top of the linked page. Keep in mind that redirects do not follow section links, making it useless to include them there.

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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}.

Become a Wikipedia tipster

This is the tip of the day project, providing useful advice daily on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. It is responsible for maintaining the tip of the day templates that are displayed throughout Wikipedia, and the collection of tips that are displayed by those templates. The tip of the day appears on Wikipedia's Help page, on the Wikipedia:Community Portal, and on many user pages.

For the complete schedule of tips, see below. See also Wikipedia:tips, the complete library of tips arranged by subject.

Contents

[edit] Displaying tips on your user pages

To add one of the many versions of the tip of the day template to your user page, read this tip.

[edit] Participating...

To participate in developing, proofreading, and scheduling new tips, see the instructions on the talk page.

[edit] Tip of the day scheduling queue

List of tips

This is the tip scheduling queue. The TOTD system operates on the "yearless year" approach, in which each tip's page is automatically displayed year after year.

Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it hasn't grown out of date or obsolete! Please help.

Now, without further ado, here are Wikipedia's daily tips, by presentation date:

[edit] More templates

The following template is for Wikipedians who can't wait until tomorrow for their next tip! It presents a random tip each time you load the page it is presented on:

Another Tip of the moment...


Collaborations

A collaboration is when users work together to improve an article to featured status. They can be on almost any subject there is. These are usually run by the wikiprojects that work on articles in that area. Everyone is invited to work on the collaboration of their choice.

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To add this template to your user page, use {{Totd-random}}.

Become a Wikipedia tipster


This template is for monitoring the tip queue one day in advance for any editing needs:

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Please proofread the daily tip...

It's displayed below one day early.

Some tips are obsolete. So we need new tips too. Please share your best tips and tip ideas at Wikipedia Talk:Tip of the day.

Tomorrow's tip of the day...

Recent Changes Patrol

One way that many users like to contribute to Wikipedia is by patrolling recent changes for vandalism or other common problems. While this task can be done with a variety of tools it is as simple as looking over the Recent changes link (in your navigation box on the left side of your browser window). Subsets of Recent Changes Patrol include New Page Patrol and Special:Newimages.

Prior tip - Next tip

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}.

Become a Wikipedia tipster

[edit] See also

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