Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Yearless
This page is used to test Wikipedia:Tip of the day/Yearless tips pages and the related template modifications. Please add any feedback at the Discussion section.
Tips tests
Tips templates
If you would like to display the tip of the day on your userpage, here's how:
Edit your userpage and insert one or more of the following strings:
- {{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 (to a maximum of one time per minute). If it doesn't update, try clearing your browser cache.
- {{totd}} - the main userspace version of the tip of the day template, with border, centered in the middle of the page. Complete with inspirational lightbulb.
- {{totd b}} - a more compact version of the above template. Useful for columns.
- {{totd-tomorrow}} - this shows tomorrow's tip, and is used by Wikipedia tipsters to make sure that the tips never run out. If they did run out, a red link would show up on Wikipedia's Community Portal and Help Page, which would be very embarrassing. This template shows the redlink one day in advance, as an early-warning system.
- {{Tip of the day}} - the borderless version, with lightbulb.
- {{Tip of the day - community portal}} - the underlined-heading version used on the community portal. (No lightbulb).
- {{totd2}} - the borderless version used on Wikipedia's Help page (which already has its own borders). (No lightbulb).
- {{totd3}} - a purple box version, useful for displaying the tip in columns.
- {{totd CP}} - like the help page version, but with a box. Spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in.
totd
This is the Tip of the day: {{totd}}
This is the yearless Tip of the day: {{totd-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day...
 Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – –
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}.
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totd b
Compact totd: {{totd b}}
| Tip of the day... |
 Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – |
| Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd b}} |
Yearless version: {{totd b-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day... |
Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – |
| Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this box to your user page, use {{totd b}}. |
totd-tomorrow
Tomorrow's totd: {{totd-tomorrow}}
| 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 the Tip of the day department. edit Tomorrow's 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 {{totd-tomorrow}}
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Yearless version: {{totd-tomorrow-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
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Hello there (totd announcements and task list)...
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 {{totd-tomorrow}}.
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Tip of the day
Borderless totd: {{Tip of the day}}
| Tip of the day...
Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{tip of the day}} |
Yearless version: {{Tip of the day-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day...
Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{Tip of the day}}.
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Tip of the day - community portal
Community Portal totd (This version includes section heading.): {{Tip of the day - community portal}}
Tip of the day
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers.
While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily.
The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors.
WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page.
Yearless version: {{Tip of the day - community portal-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
Tip of the day
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers.
While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily.
The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors.
WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page.
totd2
Help page totd: {{totd2}}
| Tip of the day...
Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}
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Yearless version: {{totd2-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
totd3
Purple box totd: {{totd3}}
Tip of the day...
Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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Yearless version: {{totd3-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
Tip of the day...
Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – |
totd CP
Boxed help page totd: {{totd CP}}
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Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}
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Yearless version: {{totd CP-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
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Editing articles for web accessibility
Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers. While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily. The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors. WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. – – |
totd-random
Randomized totd: {{totd-random}}
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Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowser
AutoWikiBrowser is a specialized external semi-automatic editor designed for editing Wikipedia pages fast. Its main purpose is for doing search/replace operations on many pages. It can also append or prepend material, and you can do regular editing with it as well. First you make a list, using AWB's listmaker, of the pages you wish to work on. Then you specify the search/replaces you want done. Then you click Start. AWB loads the first page on the list and shows you the changes it made, if any. If the changes are acceptable, you click Save, and AWB saves the page on Wikipedia. Then it automatically loads the next page on the list. AWB can even run scripts, and perform regex (regular expression) search and replacements. In order to use AWB, you must either be a sysop or an editor with over 500 edits in the main namespace. For on-the-fly general discussion and support requests for AWB, try the AWB IRC channel: #AutoWikiBrowser connect – – Read more: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser Its shortcut: WP:AWB To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Yearless version: {{totd-random-y}} It might or might not look the same as the above tip.
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Beware of instruction creep
Also called instructionitis, instruction creep is the tendency of instructions to grow and grow, until they become so long and complex that nobody wants to read them. When editing help pages, or instructions for Wikipedia's departments, please make them clear and concise, reducing them whenever possible. – – Read more:
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Discussion
This will definitely save a lot of work, or at least provide a default in case no one bothers to write new tips. They'll need to be monitored for relevance and be updated in cases in which they no longer apply, but that's pretty obvious.
So the tips will be displayed in the same order, year after year? That'll create some deja vu! 
. Is there any way to randomize the tips so that on any particular day the same tip is displayed for everybody throughout the whole day? The Transhumanist 23:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Anything is possible. My first thought was to do something like that - daily randomization - but a concern for high profile pages is reviewability. That's why I went with a more simple and predictable approach. It's also always possible to mix up - switch around - content if anyone want to do that. Rfrisbietalk 00:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- All looks good to me. --Quiddity 03:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
If I see no objections by the weekend, I'm going to convert the templates over to use the yearless pages. Rfrisbietalk 05:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)