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Transclusion vs. Substitution
There are two main ways to use templates on articles:
Transclusion – also called "inclusion", and accomplished by using ((Template Name))Substitution – notated like this ((subst:Template Name))Transclusion will include the content of Template Name on the fly whenever the article is loaded, while the latter will permanently insert the content of the template into the article. With substitution , even if the template content is modified at a later date, the article's content will not change.
Substitution is the preferred method for long-term, permanent notices because it is less confusing, and it even helps to lighten the load on the database. Substitution has the further advantage in that a template's content may be de-linked from any associated category or slightly modified to suit the circumstances, such as when the template is used on a talk page. Transclusion is preferred for displaying material that is normally updated, that way, all the places it appears are updated in a single operation.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
((totd )) For the complete library of tips arranged by subject, see
Wikipedia:Tips .
This is a WikiProject , an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
To help centralise discussions and keep related topics together, all Tip-of-the-day discussions are to be held on the TOTD talk page .
This is the tip of the day (a.k.a. TOTD ) project, providing useful daily advice on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. This project is responsible for maintaining the Wikipedia:Tip of the day#Tip templates , and the collection of daily tips that are displayed by those templates.
The Tip of the Day was started on February 18, 2004 as an original feature of the newly created Community Portal . There were about 50 tips, displayed one per day, on a rotating basis.
In 2006 the project was revamped and expanded to a tip page for each day of the year. Later that year, a "yearless tip" was created, with no year included in the page titles, so that the same pages could be displayed automatically year after year. The tip collection grew to about 300 tips - still about 66 tips short of a full supply.
The tip of the day was added to the main help page, Help:Contents , on March 13, 2006 . That page was renamed on September 20, 2012, to Help:Menu , to make way for a new main help page. In 2015, the tip of the day project underwent an overhaul, during which the display template functionality was enhanced and simplified, many new tips were added, replacing obsolete and duplicate tips. The tip of the day was added to the current help page on November 22, 2015.
Over the years, Tip of the Day project regulars, and other helpful editors have maintained the set of auto displaying tips, updating them, and creating new tips to replace redundant or obsolete tips.
The three main places that the Tip of the Day is displayed, are the Community portal Help:Contents Help:Menu
Another place where the tip resides is the Welcome to Wikipedia 01/08/2007 ).
Sometimes the tip gets removed from those pages, either through vandalism or by an overly bold edit. If you notice it missing from any of them, please put it back. Thank you.
To add one of the many versions of the tip of the day template to your user page, go here
To participate in developing, proofreading, and scheduling new tips, see the instructions on the talk page .
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List of tips by date
This is the tip of the day scheduling queue. The TOTD system operates on the Rolodex approach, in which each daily tip page is automatically displayed again year after year.
Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it has not grown out of date or become obsolete! Talk page
Now, without further ado, here are Wikipedia's daily tips, by presentation date:
January 1 – Where to begin?January 2 – Article developmentJanuary 3 – Are your hands full? (Use search box as a small but convenient clipboard)January 4 – How to make your watchlist easier to readJanuary 5 – How to improve Wikipedia's reliabilityJanuary 6 – How to send a message to other editorsJanuary 7 – Image processing toolsJanuary 8 – What are dummy edits good for?January 9 – Digital audio supportJanuary 10 – Introduction to navigating WikipediaJanuary 11 – CaptionsJanuary 12 – Avoiding common mistakesJanuary 13 – A self-guided tutorialJanuary 14 – Article quality assessmentsJanuary 15 – Archives for lengthy pagesJanuary 16 – Article banner templatesJanuary 17 – What is a Talk page?January 18 – How to easily recall a usernameJanuary 19 – Preview tomorrow's Featured ArticleJanuary 20 – User scripts examplesJanuary 21 – Good article nominationsJanuary 22 – How to reduce or enlarge font sizesJanuary 23 – Search and replace while editing an article.January 24 – Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB January 25 – Ask for help at Wikipedia's Help DeskJanuary 26 – Souping up your Smartphone editing of WikipediaJanuary 27 – The semi-automated article peer-reviewerJanuary 28 – How to request help on your Talk pageJanuary 29 – Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning)January 30 – What are page history diffs?January 31 – Find articles for cleanupFebruary 1 – Automatic page loader.February 2 – Redirect synonymous topic namesFebruary 3 – Fixing bare URLs to prevent link rotFebruary 4 – Join a WikiProject.February 5 – Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat)February 6 – Articles about notable booksFebruary 7 – How to provide a link to a specific Google SearchFebruary 8 – Wikipedia Search box - basicFebruary 9 – Please summarize your work using the Edit summary boxFebruary 10 – Referencing for beginnersFebruary 11 – Another way to search Wikipedia with GoogleFebruary 12 – Introduction to tablesFebruary 13 – Shortcut for minor edit boxFebruary 14 – Spreading the WikiLoveFebruary 15 – Templates for Age and Dates February 16 – Thanks - send a notificationFebruary 17 – Mobile view sidebar from the desktopFebruary 18 – Using the Authority control templateFebruary 19 – When to use subpagesFebruary 20 – How to enable right-click section editingFebruary 21 – BiographiesFebruary 22 – Wikipedia banners and buttonsFebruary 23 – Help for new contributorsFebruary 24 – Calendar date display for your user pagesFebruary 25 – Screen readers for accessibilityFebruary 26 – Editing projects for school and university classesFebruary 27 – What is Page curation ?February 28 – Writing articles for The Signpost February 29 – Please sign your name on talk pagesMarch 1 – How to plant a CategoryTree!March 2 – Test-drive your edits using a sandboxMarch 3 – Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups March 4 – Supercharge your browserMarch 5 – How to create a link to another articleMarch 6 – Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articlesMarch 7 – Please fill-in edit summariesMarch 8 – How to get a list of a page's subpagesMarch 9 – Becoming an AdministratorMarch 10 – Where to post requestsMarch 11 – How to make links look the way you wantMarch 12 – Please sign your name on talk pagesMarch 13 – Are you lost?March 14 – How to create a new pageMarch 15 – Wikipedia's top ten power tipsMarch 16 – How to catch admin attention fastMarch 17 – How to make redirects appear green March 18 – Breaking the 500-edit limit in "View History"March 19 – Create links faster using tricksMarch 20 – Running MediaWiki on your own computerMarch 21 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcutsMarch 22 – Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)March 23 – Getting your edit countMarch 24 – Transclusion vs. SubstitutionMarch 25 – Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt: March 26 – SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to editMarch 27 – Work faster with keyboard shortcutsMarch 28 – Ask intelligent questionsMarch 29 – Working on the Main page - IMarch 30 – Working on the Main page - IIMarch 31 – Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the mostApril 1 – Do not believe everything you readApril 2 – Visit the Village Pump for technical issuesApril 3 – Stop by the Reference DeskApril 4 – Where to upload images and media filesApril 5 – How to fix unsigned commentsApril 6 – Do not use forums or emails as sourcesApril 7 – Automatic edit summary reminderApril 8 – CollaborationsApril 9 – Search box bookmarklet for your browserApril 10 – Cite your sourcesApril 11 – Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowserApril 12 – Help Wikipedia help youApril 13 – Motto of the day...April 14 – Create a user accountApril 15 – Copyrights? CopyleftApril 16 – Uploading Free ImagesApril 17 – Are you jealous of others' user pages? (WP:UPDG )April 18 – How to change your usernameApril 19 – Preview tomorrow's Featured ArticleApril 20 – Explore Wikipedia's contentsApril 21 – Featured article candidatesApril 22 – Wikipedia search box focusApril 23 – How to move/rename a pageApril 24 – The Wikipedia Adventure!April 25 – Super-customize your account with gadgets April 26 – Keyboard shortcutsApril 27 – Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?)April 28 – Getting a subpage listingApril 29 – Setting Wikipedia time to your time zoneApril 30 – How to make links to articlesMay 1 – To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searchesMay 2 – Time-saving links: the "pipe trick"May 3 – Prove it with ProveIt May 4 – Time-saving links IIMay 5 – Browsing Mobile Wikipedia on your big screenMay 6 – Linking to a section of an articleMay 7 – Sister projects & interwiki linkingMay 8 – Displaying one page within another = Transclusion May 9 – Using templatesMay 10 – General topics listsMay 11 – UserboxesMay 12 – List buildingMay 13 – When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject?May 14 – Centralizing project discussionMay 15 – RedirectsMay 16 – FootnotesMay 17 – How to add hidden editor notes in an articleMay 18 – How to review user contributionsMay 19 – Use your browser's toolbar to navigate WikipediaMay 20 – Formatting disambiguation pagesMay 21 – Featured contentMay 22 – Table of contentsMay 23 – Transclusion caveatMay 24 – Go to the right deskMay 25 – Please return the favorMay 26 – Check your work before you save, using Preview May 27 – Where on the page to put imagesMay 28 – Placing templatesMay 29 – Placing "External links" sectionsMay 30 – Main page - Did you knowMay 31 – ShortcutsJune 1 – Placing category tagsJune 2 – Page historyJune 3 – Tag your image uploadsJune 4 – Placing interlanguage linksJune 5 – Sorting entries in the categoriesJune 6 – Look before you leapJune 7 – How to start a new articleJune 8 – Talking to WikipediansJune 9 – Cite the source on all image uploadsJune 10 – Designing your user pageJune 11 – Use your watchlistJune 12 – Navigation popupsJune 13 – How to insert a picture into an articleJune 14 – Wikipedia-specific searching within FirefoxJune 15 – Section edit buttonJune 16 – Ask intelligent questionsJune 17 – Beware of instruction creepJune 18 – Fix double redirectsJune 19 – Alphabetical list of articlesJune 20 – ScreenshotsJune 21 – Please read department instructionsJune 22 – When not to use linksJune 23 – A better wiki editor: WikEdJune 24 – Change text size quickly (with Ctrl-mouse wheel)June 25 – PortalsJune 26 – What are templates used for?June 27 – Pretty tablesJune 28 – Ask intelligent questionsJune 29 – Wikipedia for your mobile...June 30 – Custom signaturesJuly 1 – Citation RequestsJuly 2 – Love thy neighborJuly 3 – Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin BoardJuly 4 – Band articlesJuly 5 – List the things to do for an articleJuly 6 – Wikipedia's Manual of Style July 7 – Welcoming CommitteeJuly 8 – The three revert ruleJuly 9 – Avoid using neologismsJuly 10 – The fastest way to end a conflict: walk awayJuly 11 – Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift +Alt +F July 12 – How to use red links July 13 – Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvementJuly 14 – Using MathJuly 15 – Be forgiving to new usersJuly 16 – Search Wikipedia from any websiteJuly 17 – Join the fight against vandalismJuly 18 – Short link pipe trickJuly 19 – Ten things you may not know about WikipediaJuly 20 – How to make a table on a pageJuly 21 – Displaying tips on your user page Note. Do not change this tip. It is a linked tip on displaying tips! :-)July 22 – What did they say? (Wikijargon )July 23 – Wikipedia industrial-powered searchJuly 24 – Forums and emails are not acceptable sourcesJuly 25 – Wikipedia in briefJuly 26 – Wikipedia's dozen most essential tipsJuly 27 – Wikipedia's ten most powerful tipsJuly 28 – Your very own Wikipedia bookmark pageJuly 29 – Get more out of Wikipedia searchJuly 30 – Wikipedia's Quick directoryJuly 31 – How to link to a category without categorizing the pageAugust 1 – Customize appearance of datesAugust 2 – Find uncategorized articlesAugust 3 – The lead sectionAugust 4 – Articles for Creation (AFC) processAugust 5 – In conflicts, reach consensusAugust 6 – How to add an article to a categoryAugust 7 – Title searchesAugust 8 – How to watch for pages that do not exist yetAugust 9 – Abbreviating edit summariesAugust 10 – How to create a categoryAugust 11 – How to search Wikipedia with GoogleAugust 12 – How to create reusable boilerplateAugust 13 – Acronyms and initialismsAugust 14 – To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area...August 15 – Explaining Wiki markup to other usersAugust 16 – How to create a subcategoryAugust 17 – Article sizeAugust 18 – How does Wikipedia stack up?August 19 – Speed up your learning curve...August 20 – What the world knows about usAugust 21 – How reliable is Wikipedia?August 22 – When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google searchAugust 23 – How to link to a categoryAugust 24 – Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowserAugust 25 – Where to look for helpAugust 26 – How to link to a section of an articleAugust 27 – Join the Recent Changes Patrol!August 28 – Where did that fact come from?August 29 – How popular is Wikipedia?August 30 – Google search linkAugust 31 – My link disappeared!September 1 – Wikipedia's top ten essential tipsSeptember 2 – Spell CheckersSeptember 3 – Install your first javascriptSeptember 4 – GuestbooksSeptember 5 – How to use Wikipedia Offline: xowa September 6 – Subject bar templateSeptember 7 – Article construction stagesSeptember 8 – Wikipedia Search box - advancedSeptember 9 – Good article reassessmentSeptember 10 – Biography articles needing attentionSeptember 11 – Article deletion processSeptember 12 – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)September 13 – Copyright CleanupSeptember 14 – Wikipedia Database reportsSeptember 15 – CopyPatrol toolSeptember 16 – Featured world of WikipediaSeptember 17 – Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single clickSeptember 18 – Difference between wikiprojects and portals?September 19 – Graphics LabSeptember 20 – Wikipedia toolbar for FirefoxSeptember 21 – How do you pronounce that?September 22 – External linksSeptember 23 – Counting your editsSeptember 24 – Main page - Did you knowSeptember 25 – How to link to word definitionsSeptember 26 – Tagging pages for problemsSeptember 27 – What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycleSeptember 28 – Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hubSeptember 29 – Topic listsSeptember 30 – Interwiki links and shortcutsOctober 1 – How to display the Tip of the day on your user pageOctober 2 – Wikimedia-wide issuesOctober 3 – EditcountitisOctober 4 – Category tipsOctober 5 – Avoid trademarksOctober 6 – Wikipedia-specific searching with GoogleOctober 7 – Please sign your name on talk pagesOctober 8 – User scriptsOctober 9 – Linking articles: the internal linkOctober 10 – How to find legal photographs and graphicsOctober 11 – Keep track of your questionsOctober 12 – How to transclude a page into the page you are editingOctober 13 – Why have lists when there are categories?October 14 – Wikipedia Search Box for FirefoxOctober 15 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcutsOctober 16 – Power tool: Navigation PopupsOctober 17 – Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowserOctober 18 – Six of one, half-a-dozen of the otherOctober 19 – Translating contentOctober 20 – The five pillarsOctober 21 – Using Special:MyPage to make private linksOctober 22 – Double click editingOctober 23 – Be neutral, like WikipediaOctober 24 – Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces October 25 – How to see a list of the pages in a namespaceOctober 26 – A plain & simple introductionOctober 27 – Basic copyeditingOctober 28 – S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.AOctober 29 – How to enhance Recent changes October 30 – Namespace entry pointsOctober 31 – How to catch admin attention fastNovember 1 – Flashback to Wikipedia's pastNovember 2 – Report problems on noticeboardsNovember 3 – Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articlesNovember 4 – Help reduce the Wikipedia backlogNovember 5 – Wikimedia links and shortcutsNovember 6 – Advanced signaturesNovember 7 – Be neutral when editing WikipediaNovember 8 – Linking to non-Wikimedia wikisNovember 9 – "Where do I begin?"November 10 – Editing articles for web accessibilityNovember 11 – The Wikipedia CurriculumNovember 12 – Giving editor awardsNovember 13 – Spoken WikipediaNovember 14 – MediationNovember 15 – Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia...November 16 – How to make links to disambiguation pages appear orange to youNovember 17 – Fansites, forums, & other web page articlesNovember 18 – How to provide a Google search in a linkNovember 19 – User Sub PagesNovember 20 – A comprehensive index for editorsNovember 21 – Welcome to Wikipedia!November 22 – Making the editbox more visually pleasingNovember 23 – Permission requestsNovember 24 – Lead Section SizeNovember 25 – Try to see it my way!November 26 – Pick from a list of template parameter choicesNovember 27 – World of fictionNovember 28 – Same titles, different meaningsNovember 29 – Brilliant picturesNovember 30 – Undoing editsDecember 1 – No copies of primary sourcesDecember 2 – Dates in Wikipedia articlesDecember 3 – Find stubs and expand themDecember 4 – How to look at the changes to an articleDecember 5 – How to customize your signatureDecember 6 – When to use external linksDecember 7 – How to adjust the height of your edit windowDecember 8 – How to add a picture to an articleDecember 9 – How to skip scrolling and clickingDecember 10 – Wikipedia etiquette = WikiquetteDecember 11 – Section editingDecember 12 – What writing style to useDecember 13 – Where to write about current eventsDecember 14 – Link articles to their foreign-language counterpartsDecember 15 – Advice for parentsDecember 16 – Automating tasks on WikipediaDecember 17 – Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help...December 18 – Accuracy, quality and peer reviewDecember 19 – What can be included in Wikipedia?December 20 – Freedom of speech and profanityDecember 21 – Cannot find what you are looking for?December 22 – Why create an account?December 23 – Your user pageDecember 24 – Wikimedia has mailing listsDecember 25 – Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferencesDecember 26 – Watching for changesDecember 27 – If you have privileged access to web pages...December 28 – Help test the MediaWiki softwareDecember 29 – Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skinsDecember 30 – Come visit the Teahouse December 31 – Not everything that is true is verifiable
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List of tips by order of name
This is the tip scheduling queue arranged alphabetically. The TOTD system operates on the "yearless year" approach, in which each tip's page is automatically displayed year after year. There is also a chronological list of these tips .
Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it hasn't grown out of date or obsolete! Talk page
How to improve Wikipedia's reliability – January 5
How to insert a picture into an article – June 13
How to link to a category without categorizing the page – July 31
How to link to a category – August 23
How to link to a section of an article – August 26
How to link to word definitions – September 25
How to look at the changes to an article – December 4
How to make a table on a page – July 20
How to make links look the way you want – March 11
How to make links to articles – April 30
How to make your watchlist easier to read – January 4
How to move/rename a page – April 23
How to plant a CategoryTree! – March 1
How to provide a Google search in a link – November 18
How to provide a link to a specific Google Search – February 7
How to reduce or enlarge font sizes – January 22
How to request help on your Talk page – January 28
How to review user contributions – May 18
How to search Wikipedia with Google – August 11
How to see a list of the pages in a namespace – October 25
How to send a message to other editors – January 6
How to skip scrolling and clicking – December 9
How to start a new article – June 7
How to transclude a page into the page you are editing – October 12
How to turn links to disambiguation pages orange – November 16
How to turn redirects green March 17
How to use red links July 12
How to use Wikipedia offline: xowa – September 5
How to watch for pages that do not exist yet – August 8
If you have privileged access to web pages... – December 27
Image processing tools – January 7
In conflicts, reach consensus – August 5
Install your first javascript – September 3
Interwiki links and shortcuts – September 30
Introduction to navigating Wikipedia – January 10
Introduction to tables – February 12
Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning) – January 29
Join a WikiProject. – February 4
Join the fight against vandalism – July 17
Join the Recent Changes Patrol! – August 27
Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift +Alt +F – July 11
Keep track of your questions – October 11
Keyboard shortcuts – April 26
Lead Section Size – November 24
Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts – December 14
Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt: – March 25
Linking articles: the internal link – October 9
Linking to a section of an article – May 6
Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis – November 8
List building – May 12
List the things to do for an article – July 5
Look before you leap – June 6
Love thy neighbor – July 2
Making the editbox more visually pleasing – November 22
Main page - Did you know – May 30
Main page - Did you know – September 24
Mediation – November 14
Mobile view sidebar from the desktop – February 17
Motto of the day... – April 13
My link disappeared! – August 31
Namespace entry points – October 30
Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts – March 21
Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts – October 15
Navigation popups – June 12
No copies of primary sources – December 1
Not everything that is true is verifiable – December 31
Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?) – April 27
Page history – June 2
Permission requests – November 23
Pick from a list of template parameter choices – November 26
Placing category tags – June 1
Placing "External links" sections – May 29
Placing interlanguage links – June 4
Placing templates – May 28
Please fill-in edit summaries – March 7
Please read department instructions – June 21
Please return the favor – May 25
Please sign your name on talk pages – February 29
Please sign your name on talk pages – March 12
Please sign your name on talk pages – October 7
Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box – February 9
Portals – June 25
Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board – July 3
Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser – October 17
Power tool: Navigation Popups – October 16
Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser – August 24
Pretty tables – June 27
Preview tomorrow's Featured Article – January 19
Prove it with ProveIt – May 3
Redirect synonymous topic names – February 2
Redirects – May 15
Referencing for beginners – February 10
Report problems on noticeboards – November 2
Running MediaWiki on your own computer – March 20
S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A – October 28
Same titles, different meanings – November 28
Screen readers for accessibility – February 25
Screenshots – June 20
Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB January 24
Search and replace while editing an article. – January 23
Search box bookmarklet for your browser – April 9
Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex) – March 22
Section edit button – June 15
Section editing – December 11
Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone – April 29
Short link pipe trick – July 18
Shortcut for minor edit box – February 13
Shortcuts – May 31
Sister projects & interwiki linking – May 7
Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other – October 18
Sorting entries in the categories – June 5
Souping up your Smartphone editing of Wikipedia – January 26
Speed up your learning curve... – August 19
Spell Checkers – September 2
Spoken Wikipedia – November 13
Spreading the WikiLove – February 14
Stop by the Reference Desk – April 3
Subject bar template – September 6
SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit – March 26
Super-customize your account with gadgets – April 25
Supercharge your browser – March 4
Table of contents – May 22
Tag your image uploads – June 3
Tagging pages for problems – September 26
Talking to Wikipedians – June 8
Templates for Age and Dates – February 15
Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia – July 19
Test-drive your edits using a sandbox – March 2
Thanks - send a notification – February 16
The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away – July 10
The five pillars – October 20
The lead section – August 3
The semi-automated article peer-reviewer – January 27
The three revert rule – July 8
The Wikipedia Adventure! – April 24
The Wikipedia Curriculum – November 11
Time-saving links II – May 4
Time-saving links: the "pipe trick" – May 2
Title searches – August 7
To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches – May 1
To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area... – August 14
Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most – March 31
Topic lists – September 29
Transclusion caveat – May 23
Transclusion vs. Substitution – March 24
Translating content – October 19
Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins – December 29
Try to see it my way! – November 25
Undoing edits – November 30
Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences – December 25
Uploading Free Images – April 16
Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles – March 6
Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia – May 19
Use your watchlist – June 11
User scripts examples – January 20
User scripts – October 8
User Sub Pages – November 19
Userboxes – May 11
Using Math – July 14
Using Special:MyPage to make private links – October 21
Using templates – May 9
Using the Authority control template – February 18
Visit the Village Pump for technical issues – April 2
Watching for changes – December 26
Welcome to Wikipedia! – November 21
Welcoming Committee – July 7
What are dummy edits good for? – January 8
What are page history diffs? – January 30
What are templates used for? – June 26
What can be included in Wikipedia? – December 19
What did they say? (Wikijargon ) – July 22 What is a Talk page? – January 17
What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – September 27
What is Page curation ? – February 27
What the world knows about us – August 20
What writing style to use – December 12
When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search – August 22
When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject? – May 13
When not to use links – June 22
When to use external links – December 6
When to use subpages – February 19
Where did that fact come from?! – August 28
"Where do I begin?" – November 9
Where on the page to put images – May 27
Where to begin? – January 1
Where to look for help – August 25
Where to post requests – March 10
Where to upload images and media files – April 4
Where to write about current events – December 13
Why create an account? – December 22
Why have lists when there are categories? – October 13
Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia... – November 15
Wikimedia has mailing lists – December 24
Wikimedia links and shortcuts – November 5
Wikimedia-wide issues – October 2
Wikipedia banners and buttons – February 22
Wikipedia Database reports – September 14
Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette – December 10
Wikipedia for your mobile... – June 29
Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces – October 24
Wikipedia in brief – July 25
Wikipedia industrial-powered search – July 23
Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help... – December 17
Wikipedia Search box - advanced – September 8
Wikipedia Search box - basic – February 8
Wikipedia search box focus – April 22
Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox – October 14
Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox – September 20
Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles – November 3
Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips – July 26
Wikipedia's Manual of Style – July 6
Wikipedia's Quick directory – July 30
Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips – July 27
Wikipedia's top ten essential tips – September 1
Wikipedia's top ten power tips – March 15
Wikipedia-specific searching with Google – October 6
Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox – June 14
Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement – July 13
Work faster with keyboard shortcuts – March 27
Working on the Main page – I - March 29
Working on the Main Page – II - March 30
World of fiction – November 27
Writing articles for The Signpost – February 28
Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub – September 28
Your user page – December 23
Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page – July 28
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This is the list of tip display templates (also posted at Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 21 ). Here
((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.
((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 lightbulb.((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 lightbulb).((totd CP )) – like the help page version, but with a box & 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.
The following template ((Totd-random )) is for Wikipedians who can't wait until tomorrow for their next tip! It presents a random tip each time you reload the page it is presented on:
Tip of the moment ...How to look at the changes to an article
Select... ...and compare! In the page history for any page, click (prev) (#9 on the image top right—click on the image to see a larger version) to see the changes for any version from the one just before it. To compare a series of versions, just click any two radio-buttons to select the set of versions, then click the Compare selected versions button (this only works if you have JavaScript enabled).
You should be presented with a screen that shows you which words have been removed and which ones have been added (affected words are highlighted in red). You always can revert to an earlier version by selecting it from the history, editing and saving it. We call these "diffs" because the URL has the word "diff" in it. Diff is short for difference.
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use ((totd-random ))
This template ((Totd-tomorrow )) is for monitoring the tip queue one day in advance for any editing needs:
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 ...
Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt:
You've come across a word that is crucial to understanding the article you are working on, and you want to create a link to its definition. But you find the encyclopedia article for that word would be overkill. So you want to link to its Wiktionary definition. How? It's easy. Here's an example using the word "understanding":
both [[wiktionary:understanding|]] and [[wikt:understanding|]] will look like this:
understanding and link to the definition of the word "understanding".
Notice that the "pipe trick" (|) was used in the links above.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use ((totd-tomorrow ))
This template ((Totd-day-after-next )) is for monitoring the tip queue two days in advance to make sure the tip is proofread before it goes live anywhere in the world:
Please proofread the daily tip before it goes "live"... It's displayed below two days early, so it can be error-checked and made ready-to-display for all time zones.
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 Day-after-next's tip of the day ...
SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit
Let SuggestBot contributions . It uses a variety of algorithms , including standard information retrieval and collaborative filtering techniques, to make suggestions. It also sometimes points people to the Community Portal , or their past edits, as a source of inspiration.
If you are looking for SuggestBot recommendations, you have these options.
To get a single set of suggestions:
…based on articles you've edited, please follow the instructions at User:SuggestBot/Requests .
…using WikiProjects you are interested in, go to the Teahouse's SuggestBot page , click on Get suggestions , and follow the instructions.
…based on a specific set of articles or categories of articles, see our SuggestBot instructions for that.
You can also get suggestions posted periodically to your talk page (or another page of your choosing). How to do that is described here .
Note: with ((totd-tomorrow )), it isn't tomorrow for all time zones, and so it may have already gone live for part of the world before you've edited it.
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Collaborations 
For the complete library of tips arranged by subject, see Wikipedia:Tips.
