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Tip of the moment...
Search and replace while editing an article
Wikipedia user Cacycle has created a text editor that replaces Wikipedia's default text editing window. It has advanced search/replace features built-in, including regex (regular expression)—and many other features. It is called wikEd, and works with your Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome web browser. Simply select wikEd on the Gadgets panel of your wiki Preferences, in the "Editing" section. – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use ((totd-random))
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Tip of the day...
Automatic page loader
Do you have a list of Wikipedia articles you need to work on? By using AutoWikiBrowser (AWB), you can skip a step on each one because it will load each page for you. As soon as you save (or skip) the page you are working on, it loads the next one automatically. But because AutoWikiBrowser is so powerful (it has many useful features), it is reserved for users who have made at least 500 edits in the main namespace. System requirement: Internet Explorer (which AWB uses in the background). – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use ((totd3))
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The Tip of the Day project provides a different piece of advice for using Wikipedia every day. Like the Picture of the Day, you can include it on your userpage by adding ((totd)) somewhere (at the top of your talk page is a good place for it). The randomized version (displayed above) is ((totd-random)), and shows a different tip each time it is displayed on your screen. Other formats for the TOTD exist, such as the more compact ((totd3)), or you can make your own by including ((Wikipedia:Tip of the day/((CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((CURRENTDAY)), ((CURRENTYEAR)))) on your userpage (which includes the raw text, without any formatting) and then enclose it in your own formatting. To float the tip of the day to the right of content (as it is displayed here), place this code where you want the tip to show up: ((right|((totd3)))).
A spin off of the tip of the day, this is another template that provides useful instruction a little at a time.
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Presumptuous language
Add this to your user page by typing in ((Styletips)) |
To place it on your userpage, copy and paste this:
((Styletips))
This is an example of a Barnometer, to display the barnstars you've received in a humorous timescale. You can check the coding and then tweak it according to your own needs. Hold your mouse pointer over each barnstar to read each greeting.
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noob | involved | been around | veteran | seen it all | older than the Cabal itself |
There's a motto of the day project, called, you guessed it: Wikipedia:Motto of the day. To use it, just place ((Motd)) on your user page!
Here's what it looks like:
Today's motto...
C: DOS, C: DOS RUN, RUN DOS RUN!
This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:
Quote of the week: ((User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Quote))
“ | Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
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— Herman Hesse |
Random quote: ((Randomquote))
Show anotherThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
There is a huge selection of pictures on Wikipedia and its sister site Wikimedia Commons. Pictures can be a powerful way to express yourself...
Pictures can be found all over Wikipedia, but it can be very time-consuming to hunt for them in the encyclopedia's articles. Another option is to browse Wikipedia's collections...
Some images can be found in the categorical index, at:
But most of the images used on Wikipedia are kept at:
Featured pictures can also be found in the picture of the day archive:
A monthly archive of Wikipedia's featured pictures
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There is usually a long delay before a featured picture is scheduled into the picture of the day system, so two other places to look for featured pictures are:
The Picture of the Day, which changes daily, is currently displayed every day on the Main Page, and you can use it to decorate your userpage as well...
Here's what the various picture of the day templates look like. To place them on your user page, include the corresponding double-curly bracket code, and the picture will be displayed automagically:
((pic of the day))
((POTD))
((POTD/((#time:Y-m-d))|column))
Daphne mezereum, commonly known as the mezereum, February daphne, spurge laurel or spurge olive, is a species of daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to most of Europe and western Asia. D. mezereum is very toxic because of the compounds mezerein and daphnin present especially in the berries and twigs. The flowers have a four-lobed pink or light purple (rarely white) perianth and are strongly scented. This D. mezereum flower was photographed in a forest near Keila, Estonia.
Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus
If you'd rather have it without the text (to make it smaller), you can use ((Wikipedia:POTD/((CURRENTMONTHNAME))_((CURRENTDAY)),_((CURRENTYEAR)) instead.
To display the alternate picture of the day from the no-restrictions anybody-can-add-a-pic-right-now picture project, use ((rpotd)), which displays this:
Unlike PotD, these pictures are not featured. You can use ((rpotd)) to add the daily random picture to your userpage.
To display the alternate cool random picture of the day from User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator, use ((User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator)), which displays this:
You can also display the Commons Picture of the Day, which is different from the featured picture displayed on the main page, with ((WP:Wikimedia Commons/POTD)). Which shows this:
Central dome of Salzburg Cathedral, Austria. The cathedral was founded in 774 and rebuilt in 1181 after a fire, but it got its present Baroque style appearance under Prince-Bishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau in the 17th century.
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