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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

Displaying tips on your userpage

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.


Prior tip - Next tip

totd

This is the Tip of the day: {{totd}}

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


This is the yearless Tip of the day: {{totd-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.

Tip of the day...


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

totd b

Compact totd: {{totd b}}

Tip of the day...
Wikipedia for your mobile...

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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...
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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...

Custom signatures

Signatures in Wikipedia are identifying information that you put after writing a comment on a talk page. They tell other editors who wrote the comment and when. This can be done by writing ~~~~.

Signatures can optionally be spruced up with colors. To add color to your signature, go to the Preferences link at the top of the page. In the nickname box, enter [[User:MYUSERNAME|<font color="MYCOLOR">MYUSERNAME</font>]]. Replace "MYCOLOR" with a color you like, such as "red" or "green". Replace MYUSERNAME with your username. Finally, check the "raw signature" box, and save your preferences. Now, when you type four tildes ~~~~ in a talk page, your new signature will appear.

The color names that can be used in standard HTML are given in the standards document here. Using the hexadecimal RGB-style colors (such as #008000) you can choose any color you like from about sixteen million, not just the 140 colors that have names in standard HTML.

More complex signatures are possible; however, your signature as typed into the box above should not be unnecessarily long. Long signatures make pages larger and harder to edit, and are discouraged.

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}


Yearless version: {{totd-tomorrow-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.

edit

Hello there (totd announcements and task list)...

  • A tip library is under construction at Wikipedia:Tips, and needs your help to complete. The unsorted tips at the bottom of that page need to be moved to the various subheadings, and the tips under each subheading need to be placed in the best logical order.



Tomorrow's tip of the day...

Custom signatures

Signatures in Wikipedia are identifying information that you put after writing a comment on a talk page. They tell other editors who wrote the comment and when. This can be done by writing ~~~~.

Signatures can optionally be spruced up with colors. To add color to your signature, go to the Preferences link at the top of the page. In the nickname box, enter [[User:MYUSERNAME|<font color="MYCOLOR">MYUSERNAME</font>]]. Replace "MYCOLOR" with a color you like, such as "red" or "green". Replace MYUSERNAME with your username. Finally, check the "raw signature" box, and save your preferences. Now, when you type four tildes ~~~~ in a talk page, your new signature will appear.

The color names that can be used in standard HTML are given in the standards document here. Using the hexadecimal RGB-style colors (such as #008000) you can choose any color you like from about sixteen million, not just the 140 colors that have names in standard HTML.

More complex signatures are possible; however, your signature as typed into the box above should not be unnecessarily long. Long signatures make pages larger and harder to edit, and are discouraged.

Read more:


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

Tip of the day

Borderless totd: {{Tip of the day}}

Tip of the day...
Wikipedia for your mobile...

Got a mobile device with a small screen, but still wish to read Wikipedia? Here is a list of webpages to go for Wikipedia apps:

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Become a Wikipedia tipster
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...


Wikipedia for your mobile...

Got a mobile device with a small screen, but still wish to read Wikipedia? Here is a list of webpages to go for Wikipedia apps:

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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{Tip of the day}}.
Become a Wikipedia tipster

Tip of the day - community portal

Community Portal totd (This version includes section heading.): {{Tip of the day - community portal}}

Tip of the day

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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day with h3 heading}}


Yearless version: {{Tip of the day - community portal-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.

Tip of the day

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totd2

Help page totd: {{totd2}}

Tip of the day...
Wikipedia for your mobile...

Got a mobile device with a small screen, but still wish to read Wikipedia? Here is a list of webpages to go for Wikipedia apps:

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}


Yearless version: {{totd2-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.

totd3

Purple box totd: {{totd3}}

Tip of the day...
Wikipedia for your mobile...

Got a mobile device with a small screen, but still wish to read Wikipedia? Here is a list of webpages to go for Wikipedia apps:

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}


Yearless version: {{totd3-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.

Tip of the day...
Wikipedia for your mobile...

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totd CP

Boxed help page totd: {{totd CP}}

Wikipedia for your mobile...

Got a mobile device with a small screen, but still wish to read Wikipedia? Here is a list of webpages to go for Wikipedia apps:

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}


Yearless version: {{totd CP-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.


Wikipedia for your mobile...

Got a mobile device with a small screen, but still wish to read Wikipedia? Here is a list of webpages to go for Wikipedia apps:

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Become a Wikipedia tipster

totd-random

Randomized totd: {{totd-random}}

Tip of the moment...
Biography articles needing attention

For a biography article that needs improvements, on the article's talk page, add the attention parameter to the "WikiProject Biography".

For example:

{{WikiProject Biography |living=no |class=Stub
|attention=yes
|listas=Franklin, Benjamin }}

This places the article into Category:Biography articles needing attention.

Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}


Yearless version: {{totd-random-y}} It might or might not look the same as the above tip.

Another Tip of the moment...


Copyright Cleanup

WikiProject Copyright Cleanup addresses copyright concerns anywhere on Wikipedia. Among its primary activities are tagging potential copyright problems for further action, assisting contributors who do not understand copyright policies, following up on contributors who have mishandled copyrighted materials, and coordinating cleanup of largescale copyright problems.

Everyone is welcome to join the project and contribute.

Read more:


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


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)[reply]

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)[reply]
All looks good to me. --Quiddity 03:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Done. Rfrisbietalk 05:51, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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