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How reliable is Wikipedia?
It is pretty good, and getting better. But...
...it is inappropriate to cite Wikipedia as a source, because it is updated in real time. So from the time you cite a Wikipedia page to the time another person looks up your citation, the page may have changed. Citations are usually only applicable to static publications that do not change once they are published. Wikipedia is not a static publication, it is dynamic! —it changes every minute. In this sense, Wikipedia is not a reliable citable source.
How reliable is Wikipedia as a general resource? Very reliable. Most of the content on Wikipedia is accurate, and many subjects are updated faster than the news. But, Wikipedia is subject to being edited by almost anyone and any time, and the edits may be biased, out of date, incorrect, or malicious (vandalism). Therefore, it is advisable to double-check what you learn in Wikipedia against other sources.
Keep in mind that many volunteers monitor Wikipedia for errors. Since there are so many people reading the articles and monitoring contributions using the Recent Changes page, and using watchlists , incorrect information is usually spotted and corrected quickly.
Some argue that new errors are also introduced all the time, so that the overall accuracy rate is not really improving. Nevertheless, by encouraging people to help with correcting articles, validating content, and providing useful references, errors will eventually be greatly reduced.
The more accurate Wikipedia becomes, the more it attracts additional contributors. It is a self-reinforcing cycle!
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For the complete library of tips arranged by subject, see
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This is a WikiProject , an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
To help centralise discussions and keep related topics together, all Tip-of-the-day discussions are to be held on the TOTD talk page .
This is the tip of the day (a.k.a. TOTD ) project, providing useful daily advice on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. This project is responsible for maintaining the Wikipedia:Tip of the day#Tip templates , and the collection of daily tips that are displayed by those templates.
The Tip of the Day was started on February 18, 2004 as an original feature of the newly created Community Portal . There were about 50 tips, displayed one per day, on a rotating basis.
In 2006 the project was revamped and expanded to a tip page for each day of the year. Later that year, a "yearless tip" was created, with no year included in the page titles, so that the same pages could be displayed automatically year after year. The tip collection grew to about 300 tips - still about 66 tips short of a full supply.
The tip of the day was added to the main help page, Help:Contents , on March 13, 2006 . That page was renamed on September 20, 2012, to Help:Menu , to make way for a new main help page. In 2015, the tip of the day project underwent an overhaul, during which the display template functionality was enhanced and simplified, many new tips were added, replacing obsolete and duplicate tips. The tip of the day was added to the current help page on November 22, 2015.
Over the years, Tip of the Day project regulars, and other helpful editors have maintained the set of auto displaying tips, updating them, and creating new tips to replace redundant or obsolete tips.
The three main places that the Tip of the Day is displayed, are the Community portal page (since 02/18/2004), the Help:Contents page (the top-level help page), and the Help:Menu (this was Help:Contents until 09/20/2012).
Sometimes the tip gets removed from those pages, either through vandalism or by an overly bold edit. If you notice it missing from any of them, please put it back. Thank you.
To add one of the many versions of the tip of the day template to your user page, go here .
To participate in developing, proofreading, and scheduling new tips, see the instructions on the talk page .
Chronological list of tips[ edit ]
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List of tips by date
This is the tip of the day scheduling queue. The TOTD system operates on the Rolodex approach, in which each daily tip page is automatically displayed again year after year.
Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it has not grown out of date or become obsolete! Please help. For questions, comments, or to submit a new tip please go to our Project's Talk page .
Now, without further ado, here are Wikipedia's daily tips, by presentation date:
January 1 – Where to begin?
January 2 – Article development
January 3 – Are your hands full? (Use search box as a small but convenient clipboard)
January 4 – How to make your watchlist easier to read
January 5 – How to improve Wikipedia's reliability
January 6 – How to send a message to other editors
January 7 – Image processing tools
January 8 – What are dummy edits good for?
January 9 – Digital audio support
January 10 – Introduction to navigating Wikipedia
January 11 – Captions
January 12 – Avoiding common mistakes
January 13 – A self-guided tutorial
January 14 – Article quality assessments
January 15 – Archives for lengthy pages
January 16 – Article banner templates
January 17 – What is a Talk page?
January 18 – How to easily recall a username
January 19 – Preview tomorrow's Featured Article
January 20 – User scripts examples
January 21 – Good article nominations
January 22 – How to reduce or enlarge font sizes
January 23 – Search and replace while editing an article.
January 24 – Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB
January 25 – Ask for help at Wikipedia's Help Desk
January 26 – Souping up your Smartphone editing of Wikipedia
January 27 – The semi-automated article peer-reviewer
January 28 – How to request help on your Talk page
January 29 – Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning)
January 30 – What are page history diffs?
January 31 – Find articles for cleanup
February 1 – Automatic page loader.
February 2 – Redirect synonymous topic names
February 3 – Fixing bare URLs to prevent link rot
February 4 – Join a WikiProject.
February 5 – Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
February 6 – Articles about notable books
February 7 – How to provide a link to a specific Google Search
February 8 – Wikipedia Search box - basic
February 9 – Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box
February 10 – Referencing for beginners
February 11 – Another way to search Wikipedia with Google
February 12 – Introduction to tables
February 13 – Shortcut for minor edit box
February 14 – Spreading the WikiLove
February 15 – Templates for Age and Dates
February 16 – Thanks - send a notification
February 17 – Mobile view sidebar from the desktop
February 18 – Using the Authority control template
February 19 – When to use subpages
February 20 – How to enable right-click section editing
February 21 – Biographies
February 22 – Wikipedia banners and buttons
February 23 – Help for new contributors
February 24 – Calendar date display for your user pages
February 25 – Screen readers for accessibility
February 26 – Editing projects for school and university classes
February 27 – What is Page curation ?
February 28 – Writing articles for The Signpost
February 29 – Please sign your name on talk pages
March 1 – How to plant a CategoryTree!
March 2 – Test-drive your edits using a sandbox
March 3 – Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups
March 4 – Supercharge your browser
March 5 – How to create a link to another article
March 6 – Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles
March 7 – Please fill-in edit summaries
March 8 – How to get a list of a page's subpages
March 9 – Becoming an Administrator
March 10 – Where to post requests
March 11 – How to make links look the way you want
March 12 – Please sign your name on talk pages
March 13 – Are you lost?
March 14 – How to create a new page
March 15 – Wikipedia's top ten power tips
March 16 – How to catch admin attention fast
March 17 – How to make redirects appear green to you
March 18 – Breaking the 500-edit limit in "View History"
March 19 – Create links faster using tricks
March 20 – Running MediaWiki on your own computer
March 21 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts
March 22 – Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)
March 23 – Getting your edit count
March 24 – Transclusion vs. Substitution
March 25 – Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt:
March 26 – SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit
March 27 – Work faster with keyboard shortcuts
March 28 – Ask intelligent questions
March 29 – Working on the Main page - I
March 30 – Working on the Main page - II
March 31 – Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most
April 1 – Do not believe everything you read
April 2 – Visit the Village Pump for technical issues
April 3 – Stop by the Reference Desk
April 4 – Where to upload images and media files
April 5 – How to fix unsigned comments
April 6 – Do not use forums or emails as sources
April 7 – Automatic edit summary reminder
April 8 – Collaborations
April 9 – Search box bookmarklet for your browser
April 10 – Cite your sources
April 11 – Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowser
April 12 – Help Wikipedia help you
April 13 – Motto of the day...
April 14 – Create a user account
April 15 – Copyrights? Copyleft
April 16 – Uploading Free Images
April 17 – Are you jealous of others' user pages? (WP:UPDG )
April 18 – How to change your username
April 19 – Preview tomorrow's Featured Article
April 20 – Explore Wikipedia's contents
April 21 – Featured article candidates
April 22 – Wikipedia search box focus
April 23 – How to move/rename a page
April 24 – The Wikipedia Adventure!
April 25 – Super-customize your account with gadgets
April 26 – Keyboard shortcuts
April 27 – Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?)
April 28 – Getting a subpage listing
April 29 – Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone
April 30 – How to make links to articles
May 1 – To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches
May 2 – Time-saving links: the "pipe trick"
May 3 – Prove it with ProveIt
May 4 – Time-saving links II
May 5 – Browsing Mobile Wikipedia on your big screen
May 6 – Linking to a section of an article
May 7 – Sister projects & interwiki linking
May 8 – Displaying one page within another = Transclusion
May 9 – Using templates
May 10 – General topics lists
May 11 – Userboxes
May 12 – List building
May 13 – When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject?
May 14 – Centralizing project discussion
May 15 – Redirects
May 16 – Footnotes
May 17 – How to add hidden editor notes in an article
May 18 – How to review user contributions
May 19 – Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia
May 20 – Formatting disambiguation pages
May 21 – Featured content
May 22 – Table of contents
May 23 – Transclusion caveat
May 24 – Go to the right desk
May 25 – Please return the favor
May 26 – Check your work before you save, using Preview
May 27 – Where on the page to put images
May 28 – Placing templates
May 29 – Placing "External links" sections
May 30 – Main page - Did you know
May 31 – Shortcuts
June 1 – Placing category tags
June 2 – Page history
June 3 – Tag your image uploads
June 4 – Placing interlanguage links
June 5 – Sorting entries in the categories
June 6 – Look before you leap
June 7 – How to start a new article
June 8 – Talking to Wikipedians
June 9 – Cite the source on all image uploads
June 10 – Designing your user page
June 11 – Use your watchlist
June 12 – Navigation popups
June 13 – How to insert a picture into an article
June 14 – Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox
June 15 – Section edit button
June 16 – Ask intelligent questions
June 17 – Beware of instruction creep
June 18 – Fix double redirects
June 19 – Alphabetical list of articles
June 20 – Screenshots
June 21 – Please read department instructions
June 22 – When not to use links
June 23 – A better wiki editor: WikEd
June 24 – Change text size quickly (with Ctrl-mouse wheel)
June 25 – Portals
June 26 – What are templates used for?
June 27 – Pretty tables
June 28 – Ask intelligent questions
June 29 – Wikipedia for your mobile...
June 30 – Custom signatures
July 1 – Citation Requests
July 2 – Love thy neighbor
July 3 – Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board
July 4 – Band articles
July 5 – List the things to do for an article
July 6 – Wikipedia's Manual of Style
July 7 – Welcoming Committee
July 8 – The three revert rule
July 9 – Avoid using neologisms
July 10 – The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away
July 11 – Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift +Alt +F
July 12 – How to use red links
July 13 – Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement
July 14 – Using Math
July 15 – Be forgiving to new users
July 16 – Search Wikipedia from any website
July 17 – Join the fight against vandalism
July 18 – Short link pipe trick
July 19 – Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
July 20 – How to make a table on a page
July 21 – Displaying tips on your user page Note. Do not change this tip. It is a linked tip on displaying tips! :-)
July 22 – What did they say? (Wikijargon )
July 23 – Wikipedia industrial-powered search
July 24 – Forums and emails are not acceptable sources
July 25 – Wikipedia in brief
July 26 – Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips
July 27 – Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips
July 28 – Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page
July 29 – Get more out of Wikipedia search
July 30 – Wikipedia's Quick directory
July 31 – How to link to a category without categorizing the page
August 1 – Customize appearance of dates
August 2 – Find uncategorized articles
August 3 – The lead section
August 4 – Articles for Creation (AFC) process
August 5 – In conflicts, reach consensus
August 6 – How to add an article to a category
August 7 – Title searches
August 8 – How to watch for pages that do not exist yet
August 9 – Abbreviating edit summaries
August 10 – How to create a category
August 11 – How to search Wikipedia with Google
August 12 – How to create reusable boilerplate
August 13 – Acronyms and initialisms
August 14 – To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area...
August 15 – Explaining Wiki markup to other users
August 16 – How to create a subcategory
August 17 – Article size
August 18 – How does Wikipedia stack up?
August 19 – Speed up your learning curve...
August 20 – What the world knows about us
August 21 – How reliable is Wikipedia?
August 22 – When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search
August 23 – How to link to a category
August 24 – Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser
August 25 – Where to look for help
August 26 – How to link to a section of an article
August 27 – Join the Recent Changes Patrol!
August 28 – Where did that fact come from?
August 29 – How popular is Wikipedia?
August 30 – Google search link
August 31 – My link disappeared!
September 1 – Wikipedia's top ten essential tips
September 2 – Spell Checkers
September 3 – Install your first javascript
September 4 – Guestbooks
September 5 – How to use Wikipedia Offline: xowa
September 6 – Subject bar template
September 7 – Article construction stages
September 8 – Wikipedia Search box - advanced
September 9 – Good article reassessment
September 10 – Biography articles needing attention
September 11 – Article deletion process
September 12 – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
September 13 – Copyright Cleanup
September 14 – Wikipedia Database reports
September 15 – CopyPatrol tool
September 16 – Featured world of Wikipedia
September 17 – Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click
September 18 – Difference between wikiprojects and portals?
September 19 – Graphics Lab
September 20 – Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox
September 21 – How do you pronounce that?
September 22 – External links
September 23 – Counting your edits
September 24 – Main page - Did you know
September 25 – How to link to word definitions
September 26 – Tagging pages for problems
September 27 – What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
September 28 – Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub
September 29 – Topic lists
September 30 – Interwiki links and shortcuts
October 1 – How to display the Tip of the day on your user page
October 2 – Wikimedia-wide issues
October 3 – Editcountitis
October 4 – Category tips
October 5 – Avoid trademarks
October 6 – Wikipedia-specific searching with Google
October 7 – Please sign your name on talk pages
October 8 – User scripts
October 9 – Linking articles: the internal link
October 10 – How to find legal photographs and graphics
October 11 – Keep track of your questions
October 12 – How to transclude a page into the page you are editing
October 13 – Why have lists when there are categories?
October 14 – Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox
October 15 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts
October 16 – Power tool: Navigation Popups
October 17 – Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser
October 18 – Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other
October 19 – Translating content
October 20 – The five pillars
October 21 – Using Special:MyPage to make private links
October 22 – Double click editing
October 23 – Be neutral, like Wikipedia
October 24 – Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces
October 25 – How to see a list of the pages in a namespace
October 26 – A plain & simple introduction
October 27 – Basic copyediting
October 28 – S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A
October 29 – How to enhance Recent changes
October 30 – Namespace entry points
October 31 – How to catch admin attention fast
November 1 – Flashback to Wikipedia's past
November 2 – Report problems on noticeboards
November 3 – Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles
November 4 – Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog
November 5 – Wikimedia links and shortcuts
November 6 – Advanced signatures
November 7 – Be neutral when editing Wikipedia
November 8 – Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis
November 9 – "Where do I begin?"
November 10 – Editing articles for web accessibility
November 11 – The Wikipedia Curriculum
November 12 – Giving editor awards
November 13 – Spoken Wikipedia
November 14 – Mediation
November 15 – Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia...
November 16 – How to make links to disambiguation pages appear orange to you
November 17 – Fansites, forums, & other web page articles
November 18 – How to provide a Google search in a link
November 19 – User Sub Pages
November 20 – A comprehensive index for editors
November 21 – Welcome to Wikipedia!
November 22 – Making the editbox more visually pleasing
November 23 – Permission requests
November 24 – Lead Section Size
November 25 – Try to see it my way!
November 26 – Pick from a list of template parameter choices
November 27 – World of fiction
November 28 – Same titles, different meanings
November 29 – Brilliant pictures
November 30 – Undoing edits
December 1 – No copies of primary sources
December 2 – Dates in Wikipedia articles
December 3 – Find stubs and expand them
December 4 – How to look at the changes to an article
December 5 – How to customize your signature
December 6 – When to use external links
December 7 – How to adjust the height of your edit window
December 8 – How to add a picture to an article
December 9 – How to skip scrolling and clicking
December 10 – Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette
December 11 – Section editing
December 12 – What writing style to use
December 13 – Where to write about current events
December 14 – Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts
December 15 – Advice for parents
December 16 – Automating tasks on Wikipedia
December 17 – Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help...
December 18 – Accuracy, quality and peer review
December 19 – What can be included in Wikipedia?
December 20 – Freedom of speech and profanity
December 21 – Cannot find what you are looking for?
December 22 – Why create an account?
December 23 – Your user page
December 24 – Wikimedia has mailing lists
December 25 – Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences
December 26 – Watching for changes
December 27 – If you have privileged access to web pages...
December 28 – Help test the MediaWiki software
December 29 – Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins
December 30 – Come visit the Teahouse
December 31 – Not everything that is true is verifiable
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Alphabetical list of tips[ edit ]
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List of tips by order of name
This is the tip scheduling queue arranged alphabetically. The TOTD system operates on the "yearless year" approach, in which each tip's page is automatically displayed year after year. There is also a chronological list of these tips .
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. For questions, comments, or to submit a new tip please go to this Project's Talk page .
How to improve Wikipedia's reliability – January 5
How to insert a picture into an article – June 13
How to link to a category without categorizing the page – July 31
How to link to a category – August 23
How to link to a section of an article – August 26
How to link to word definitions – September 25
How to look at the changes to an article – December 4
How to make a table on a page – July 20
How to make links look the way you want – March 11
How to make links to articles – April 30
How to make your watchlist easier to read – January 4
How to move/rename a page – April 23
How to plant a CategoryTree! – March 1
How to provide a Google search in a link – November 18
How to provide a link to a specific Google Search – February 7
How to reduce or enlarge font sizes – January 22
How to request help on your Talk page – January 28
How to review user contributions – May 18
How to search Wikipedia with Google – August 11
How to see a list of the pages in a namespace – October 25
How to send a message to other editors – January 6
How to skip scrolling and clicking – December 9
How to start a new article – June 7
How to transclude a page into the page you are editing – October 12
How to turn links to disambiguation pages orange – November 16
How to turn redirects green – March 17
How to use red links – July 12
How to use Wikipedia offline: xowa – September 5
How to watch for pages that do not exist yet – August 8
If you have privileged access to web pages... – December 27
Image processing tools – January 7
In conflicts, reach consensus – August 5
Install your first javascript – September 3
Interwiki links and shortcuts – September 30
Introduction to navigating Wikipedia – January 10
Introduction to tables – February 12
Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning) – January 29
Join a WikiProject. – February 4
Join the fight against vandalism – July 17
Join the Recent Changes Patrol! – August 27
Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift +Alt +F – July 11
Keep track of your questions – October 11
Keyboard shortcuts – April 26
Lead Section Size – November 24
Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts – December 14
Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt: – March 25
Linking articles: the internal link – October 9
Linking to a section of an article – May 6
Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis – November 8
List building – May 12
List the things to do for an article – July 5
Look before you leap – June 6
Love thy neighbor – July 2
Making the editbox more visually pleasing – November 22
Main page - Did you know – May 30
Main page - Did you know – September 24
Mediation – November 14
Mobile view sidebar from the desktop – February 17
Motto of the day... – April 13
My link disappeared! – August 31
Namespace entry points – October 30
Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts – March 21
Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts – October 15
Navigation popups – June 12
No copies of primary sources – December 1
Not everything that is true is verifiable – December 31
Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?) – April 27
Page history – June 2
Permission requests – November 23
Pick from a list of template parameter choices – November 26
Placing category tags – June 1
Placing "External links" sections – May 29
Placing interlanguage links – June 4
Placing templates – May 28
Please fill-in edit summaries – March 7
Please read department instructions – June 21
Please return the favor – May 25
Please sign your name on talk pages – February 29
Please sign your name on talk pages – March 12
Please sign your name on talk pages – October 7
Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box – February 9
Portals – June 25
Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board – July 3
Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser – October 17
Power tool: Navigation Popups – October 16
Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser – August 24
Pretty tables – June 27
Preview tomorrow's Featured Article – January 19
Prove it with ProveIt – May 3
Redirect synonymous topic names – February 2
Redirects – May 15
Referencing for beginners – February 10
Report problems on noticeboards – November 2
Running MediaWiki on your own computer – March 20
S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A – October 28
Same titles, different meanings – November 28
Screen readers for accessibility – February 25
Screenshots – June 20
Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB – January 24
Search and replace while editing an article. – January 23
Search box bookmarklet for your browser – April 9
Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex) – March 22
Section edit button – June 15
Section editing – December 11
Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone – April 29
Short link pipe trick – July 18
Shortcut for minor edit box – February 13
Shortcuts – May 31
Sister projects & interwiki linking – May 7
Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other – October 18
Sorting entries in the categories – June 5
Souping up your Smartphone editing of Wikipedia – January 26
Speed up your learning curve... – August 19
Spell Checkers – September 2
Spoken Wikipedia – November 13
Spreading the WikiLove – February 14
Stop by the Reference Desk – April 3
Subject bar template – September 6
SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit – March 26
Super-customize your account with gadgets – April 25
Supercharge your browser – March 4
Table of contents – May 22
Tag your image uploads – June 3
Tagging pages for problems – September 26
Talking to Wikipedians – June 8
Templates for Age and Dates – February 15
Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia – July 19
Test-drive your edits using a sandbox – March 2
Thanks - send a notification – February 16
The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away – July 10
The five pillars – October 20
The lead section – August 3
The semi-automated article peer-reviewer – January 27
The three revert rule – July 8
The Wikipedia Adventure! – April 24
The Wikipedia Curriculum – November 11
Time-saving links II – May 4
Time-saving links: the "pipe trick" – May 2
Title searches – August 7
To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches – May 1
To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area... – August 14
Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most – March 31
Topic lists – September 29
Transclusion caveat – May 23
Transclusion vs. Substitution – March 24
Translating content – October 19
Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins – December 29
Try to see it my way! – November 25
Undoing edits – November 30
Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences – December 25
Uploading Free Images – April 16
Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles – March 6
Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia – May 19
Use your watchlist – June 11
User scripts examples – January 20
User scripts – October 8
User Sub Pages – November 19
Userboxes – May 11
Using Math – July 14
Using Special:MyPage to make private links – October 21
Using templates – May 9
Using the Authority control template – February 18
Visit the Village Pump for technical issues – April 2
Watching for changes – December 26
Welcome to Wikipedia! – November 21
Welcoming Committee – July 7
What are dummy edits good for? – January 8
What are page history diffs? – January 30
What are templates used for? – June 26
What can be included in Wikipedia? – December 19
What did they say? (Wikijargon ) – July 22
What is a Talk page? – January 17
What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – September 27
What is Page curation ? – February 27
What the world knows about us – August 20
What writing style to use – December 12
When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search – August 22
When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject? – May 13
When not to use links – June 22
When to use external links – December 6
When to use subpages – February 19
Where did that fact come from?! – August 28
"Where do I begin?" – November 9
Where on the page to put images – May 27
Where to begin? – January 1
Where to look for help – August 25
Where to post requests – March 10
Where to upload images and media files – April 4
Where to write about current events – December 13
Why create an account? – December 22
Why have lists when there are categories? – October 13
Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia... – November 15
Wikimedia has mailing lists – December 24
Wikimedia links and shortcuts – November 5
Wikimedia-wide issues – October 2
Wikipedia banners and buttons – February 22
Wikipedia Database reports – September 14
Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette – December 10
Wikipedia for your mobile... – June 29
Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces – October 24
Wikipedia in brief – July 25
Wikipedia industrial-powered search – July 23
Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help... – December 17
Wikipedia Search box - advanced – September 8
Wikipedia Search box - basic – February 8
Wikipedia search box focus – April 22
Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox – October 14
Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox – September 20
Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles – November 3
Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips – July 26
Wikipedia's Manual of Style – July 6
Wikipedia's Quick directory – July 30
Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips – July 27
Wikipedia's top ten essential tips – September 1
Wikipedia's top ten power tips – March 15
Wikipedia-specific searching with Google – October 6
Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox – June 14
Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement – July 13
Work faster with keyboard shortcuts – March 27
Working on the Main page – I - March 29
Working on the Main Page – II - March 30
World of fiction – November 27
Writing articles for The Signpost – February 28
Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub – September 28
Your user page – December 23
Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page – July 28
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This is the list of tip display templates (also posted at Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 21 ). Here is a gallery of display templates for you to view the display templates listed below:
{{ 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.
{{ 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 lightbulb.
{{ 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 lightbulb).
{{ totd CP }} – like the help page version, but with a box & 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.
The following template {{ Totd-random }} is for Wikipedians who can't wait until tomorrow for their next tip! It presents a random tip each time you reload the page it is presented on:
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Article deletion process
The Wikipedia article deletion process can be accomplished several ways, after validating the reason for deletion and trying alternatives to deletion . Deletion of articles from Wikipedia occurs through one of four processes.
So-called speedy deletion involves the scrutiny of only a few people before an article is deleted. The allowable criteria for speedy-deletion are deliberately very narrow. The list of candidates for speedy deletion can be viewed at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion .
Another quick method is the use of proposed deletion : simply add {{subst:prod |reason goes here }} to the top of the article. This is meant for articles where the deletion is believed to be uncontroversial, yet does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. A proposed deletion can be contested by any user by removing the {{prod}} tag within seven days, and if anyone still wants the article deleted the full Articles for deletion process is required.
For unsourced articles about living persons created after 18 March 2010, adding {{subst:prod blp }}
will propose the BLP for deletion . If sources are not added within 10 days, the article may be deleted.
Articles which do not meet the narrow criteria for speedy deletion and whose deletion is (or might be) contested are discussed by the community through the Articles for deletion (AfD) process.
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{ totd-random }}
This template {{ Totd-tomorrow }} is for monitoring the tip queue one day in advance for any editing needs:
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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 the Tip of the day department.
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When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search
Add -wiki
to your Google searches to exclude Wikipedia from your search. This is useful for finding sources , or for when you are already familiar with what Wikipedia has to say about a subject, and you want to see what else there is out there.
Tip: add markers "my text" around your search phrase.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{ totd-tomorrow }}
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This template {{ Totd-day-after-next }} is for monitoring the tip queue two days in advance to make sure the tip is proofread before it goes live anywhere in the world:
Please proofread the daily tip before it goes "live"...
It's displayed below two days early, so it can be error-checked and made ready-to-display for all time zones.
Some tips are obsolete. So we need new tips too. Please share your best tips and tip ideas at the Tip of the day department.
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How to link to a category
To add a link to a category in an article (as opposed to adding the article to a category) create a normal link to the category page but place a colon at the beginning of it, just after the double opening square brackets. Here's an example:
To provide a link to Category:Animals (just like this one), add the text [[:Category:Animals]]
where you want the link to appear. (Notice the extra colon at the beginning of the link).
Note: with {{ totd-tomorrow }} , it isn't tomorrow for all time zones, and so it may have already gone live for part of the world before you've edited it.
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