Tip of the Day

Working on the Main Page - I

Being the gateway to the encyclopedia - the Main Page is Wikipedia's most frequently visited page. The main page is always protected and can only be edited by admins. But, most of the content on the main page is piped in each day from various departments, via templates. The volunteers in these departments work year round to prepare the content on the Main Page to be viewed by the World each day.

The departments that prep content for the Main Page are:

Anybody can help prep the pages that feed into the main page's templates (up until the day they are displayed on the Main Page), by proofreading and correcting them, and we encourage you to do so. (continued tomorrow)

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use ((totd))

Wiki Pages

Edit Date Article When
#1 February 26, 2006 Willesborough (small edit) --
#44 February 28, 2006 Brockhill Country Park (first creation) 2 days after edit #1
#500 March 13, 2006 Wantsum Channel (edit) 15 days after edit #1
#1000 April 4, 2006 Ashford, Kent (edit) 22 days after edit #500
#2000 May 22, 2006 William Harvey (edit) 48 days after edit #1000
#3000 Aug 22, 2006 List of civil parishes in Kent (lots of edits) 3000th edit on 'Main pages'


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