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Tip of the moment...
Displaying tips on your user page

If you would like to display the Wikipedia tip of the day on your User page, here is how:

Edit your User page and insert one or more of the following bolded strings (including the four curly braces), preview your edit, and when it looks right, save it.

To see a visual display of the below templates check out the Tip of the Day Display template gallery.

  • ((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. Border color can be custom modified.
  • ((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 light bulb.
  • ((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 light bulb).
  • ((totd CP)) – like the help page version, but with a box and 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.



To have the current day's tip and tomorrow's tip show up at the bottom of your talk page, below the last message, paste this code anywhere on your talk page (preferably at the top):

<ref>((totd))</br>((right|((today cell))((spaces|5))))((totd-tomorrow))</ref>


See also:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use ((totd-random))
Tomorrow's FA (Featured Article)
Mercury Seven

The Mercury Seven were a group of American astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. Announced by NASA on April 9, 1959, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton created a new profession. The group piloted all the spaceflights of the Mercury program that had an astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and some flew in the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. Shepard became the first American to enter space in 1961, and walked on the Moon in 1971. Grissom, after flying Mercury and Gemini missions, died in 1967 in the Apollo 1 fire; the others survived past retirement from service. Schirra commanded Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo flight. Slayton, grounded with atrial fibrillation, ultimately flew on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Glenn became the first American in orbit in 1962, and flew on Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 to become, at age 77, the oldest person to fly in space at the time. (Full article...)

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If some of the above tickle you, do check out these: User:Ira_Leviton#About_me_via_userboxes - bravo Ira :)

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The above group has 553,705 fans, as at 4 Jan. 2011 (up from 366,372 fans as at 14 June 2010).

Favourite articles etc.

The first 60 moves of a Go game between Cho Chikun (white) and Kato Masao, animated. This particular game quickly developed into a complicated fight in the lower left and bottom. (Click on the board, to restart the play, in a larger window.)

Just a reminder to myself of what I rate as Good articles etc.


This Wikipedian recites the Wiki Prayer regularly.		God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

See also

Self-reminders

Ongoing

When the Moon is closest, it is at perigee, and it looks slightly bigger from Earth. Perigee is the point at which an object makes its closest approach to the Earth. Often the term is used in a broader sense to define the point in an orbit where an orbiting body is closest to the body it orbits. The opposite is the apogee, the farthest or highest point.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 2 months and 25 days.

Vandal-patrolling.

Help out with pages which need copy-edit.
Most-wanted articles - some 'missing" articles are still linked 140 times!
Help with Requests for feedback, as & when I get time.
Added ((Portal box|Law)) * In re & ((Clear)) to these "In re" articles.

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