Wikipedia:Tip of the day

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How to create reusable boilerplates

Pages intended to be reused as portions of other pages are called templates. The names of template pages start with the prefix Template:. A template can be included on another page using the syntax {{Page name}}, but leave out the Template: prefix between the curly brackets!

On Wikipedia, templates are created to serve a variety of purposes, such as navigation boxes (e.g. Template:Europe topic), infoboxes, and notices (e.g. Template:Controversial).

If you wish to make a personal boilerplate (such as a personalized welcome message, or the like), you make it in your own userspace. Simply create the page as a subpage of your userspace (in the format User:Foo/something). To put it onto a page, use the curly brackets as usual, but remember to use the syntax {{User:Foo/something}} rather than {{something}}. This is because the curly-bracket syntax automatically looks in the Template namespace, so if you want to use one from your own userspace, you need to tell it to look there.

Read more: Wikipedia:Template

Prior tip - Next tip

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.

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Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it hasn't grown out of date or obsolete!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


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Prior tip - Next tip

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...

Acronyms and initialisms

Do you need to know what an acronym or initialism stands for? See Wikipedia's List of acronyms and initialisms.

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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