User:Acagastya/totdr/doc

This is a documentation subpage for User:Acagastya/totdr.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original user template page.

Usage

This is the {{User:Acagastya/totdr}} template. This template displays the Tip of the Day box which is much similar to the {{totd-random}}.
This template is intended to be used at the top of the users' talk page.
Do not use the Wiki-code substitute for this template.

Who can use it?

This template can be used by any editor who wish to have a tip of the day box on their talk page.

Parameters

This template has five parameters:

Border Color

The parameter is used to change the border color of the box:
|border-c=
Enter either the color name or the hexadecimal value for this parameter.
NOTE: Do not forget to use the symbol # before the hexadecimal value.

The default border color in this template is BLACK.
I am not sure but this feature might not be available in {{totd-random}}.

Width of the box

This parameter is used to change the width of the box.
|width=
You may choose the size either by the pixels example: |width=80px or the percentage (%) value example: |width=80%.

Default is set at 100px.
I am not sure but this feature might not be available in {{totd-random}}.

Border Radius

This parameter is used to obtain the curved edges of the of the box.
|border-radius=
You may choose the size either by the pixels example: |border-radius=20px or the percentage (%) value example: |border-radius=10%.

Default is set at 0px.
I am not sure but this feature might not be available in {{totd-random}}.

NOTE: If you are assigning the value to this parameter using percentage (%); You would probably hate the look. It is depicted in the examples.

Image to purge

This parameter is used to change the image used to purge the tip.
|img=
Enter the name of the image you think would be appropriate.
NOTE: You need to mention the image as example: |img=:Example

The image which we all don't like in our notifications (i.e.) is the default image.
I am not sure but this feature might not be available in {{totd-random}}.

Image size

This parameter is used to change the size of the image used to purge the tip.
|img-size=
Enter the size in pixel or percentage to match accordingly.

Default value of this parameter is 30px.
I am not sure but this feature might not be available in {{totd-random}}.

Function

The function of this template is to display The tip of the Moment.

Difference between this and the original template

I am pretty sure that in the original template, you won't be able to customise it.
The space consuming bulbs' filament is broken! will not appear in this template. That is one of the reasons which lead to creation of this template.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}....Say goodbye to this space occupying thing.
But not this: Become a Wikipedia tipster. I can't remove it. There will be a huge loss to those who want to learn new tips.

Examples

Because the Tip of the Moment changes every time when purged and as the tip aren't of the uniform size: I will club the parameters together.

Using all the parameters with size quoted in pixels

|border-c= #9dd04f
|width=750px (chosen as per my screen resolution)
|border-radius=25px
|img=File:Gnome-media-playlist-shuffle.svg
|img-size=25px

Code^{{{User:Acagastya/totdr|border-c#9dd04f|width=750px|border-radius=25px|img=Gnome-media-playlist-shuffle.svg|img-size=25px}}}
Output:

Tip of the moment...

Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)

Searching with regex online

To search Wikipedia live with regular expressions, use the insource: parameter, followed by your regex search string enclosed in forward slashes, like this: /regular expression/. Here is an example:

insource:/(Abraham|Abe) Lincoln/

insource searches the wikitext version of articles, and so, wikiformatting codes can be included in the search string. If any characters you wish to find are used as special characters within regex, they will need to be "escaped" by preceding each with a backslash. For a cheat sheet on writing regexes, see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression.

For case insensitive searches, include an "i" after the closing forward slash.

Searching with regex offline

To search all of Wikipedia offline using regex, you need to download the Wikipedia database and do the search offline with AutoWikiBrowser's Database Scanner. Activate it from the tools menu in AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). It returns the names of the pages that match your query, which you can have sent directly to AWB's list maker (then you can use AWB to view them all). The Database Scanner has many features, and each query can be easily configured to match, exclude, specify namespaces, ignore redirects, etc. as you see fit.

Other methods of searching Wikipedia with regular expressions

To search Wikipedia titles with regex, use Grep.
To search within the current page use the edit window:
- If source editing, use the "Search and replace" dialog by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the far right of the "Advanced" toolbar.
- If visual editing, type Ctrl-F to get the search box, then click the "(.*)" icon for regular expressions.
- Regular expressions are also supported by the WikEd text editor gadget.
AutoWikiBrowser can do regex search/replaces, on a list of articles that you provide it.

Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip

Using all the parameters with size quoted in percentage (%)

CAUTION: the weird look at the edges is because of |box-radius='s value is set in percentage (%)

|border-c= #9f0fe90
|width=75%px (chosen as per my screen resolution)
|border-radius=10%
|img=File:Gnome-media-playlist-shuffle.svg
|img-size=25%

Code^{{{User:Acagastya/totdr|border-c#f0fe90|width=75%px|border-radius=10%|img=Gnome-media-playlist-shuffle.svg|img-size=25%}}}
Output:

Tip of the moment...

Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub

With its own link at the top of every page, your user page is as accessible as Wikipedia's Main Page. Because of this, it is your very own Wikipedia bookmark page: just place your favorite Wikipedia and external reference links on your user page, and you can access them from anywhere on Wikipedia.

In Firefox, you can also get there instantly by typing Alt+⇧ Shift+. (Other browser's access keys for your user page are covered in Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts, but they all include a period).

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