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If you'd like a continuous refill reminder, the floating cup of coffee can be put in place by using this code: {{User:Yworo/havacuppa}}
Banners and buttons[edit]
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Tip of the Day[edit]
Tip of the moment...
Your user page
Any user on Wikipedia can create a User page. While you are logged in, your name appears in the top middle section of the screen. Click on the name and then create or edit your User page. Tell us about yourself and your motivation to participate in this project. Other users can leave comments on your Talk page. For experiments and personal projects, you also can create subpages to your User page, or you can use your User sandbox. – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Tip of the day...
Shortcuts
A shortcut is a redirect that assigns an abbreviated title to a page in Wikipedia's behind-the-scenes namespaces. This lets you get to a page with fewer keystrokes. Shortcuts to pages in the Wikipedia namespace start with "WP:". For example, the shortcut to Wikipedia:Department directory is WP:DIR. When a page has one or more shortcuts to it, those shortcuts should be displayed on that page using the shortcut template. – – 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}}}}.
Style tips[edit]
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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Quotations: allowable typographical changes
But generally preserve bold and italic face, and the variety of English.
Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}} |
To place it on your userpage, copy and paste this:
{{Styletips}}
Barnometer[edit]
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 |
Mottos/slogans/quotes/thoughtboxes[edit]
Mottos[edit]
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...
→ And on this branch there was a twig,
The prettiest twig that you ever did see,
Well the twig on the branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree on the root,
And the root in the hole,
And the hole in the ground,
And the green grass grew all around and around,
And the green grass grew all around.
Thoughtboxes[edit]
This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:
Quotes[edit]
Quote of the week: {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Quote}}
“ | If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
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— Fred Rogers |
Random quote: {{Randomquote}}
Show anotherTwo possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Pics and images[edit]
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...
Image categories[edit]
Some images can be found in the categorical index, at:
But most of the images used on Wikipedia are kept at:
- Wikimedia Commons (plus a whole lot more)
Featured pictures[edit]
Featured pictures can also be found in the picture of the day archive:
A monthly archive of Wikipedia's featured pictures
2004: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
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2005: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2006: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2007: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2008: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2009: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2010: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2011: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2012: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2013: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2014: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2015: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2016: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2017: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2018: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2019: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2020: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2021: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2022: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2023: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2024: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
2025: | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
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:
Picture(s) of the day[edit]
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}}
The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) is a bird species in the rail family, Rallidae. It is distributed across many parts of the Old World, from Africa to Europe and Asia. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands. A midsized to large rail, the common moorhen ranges in length from 30 to 38 cm (12 to 15 in) in length and spans 50 to 62 cm (20 to 24 in) across the wings. It gives a wide range of gargling calls and will emit loud hisses when threatened. This common moorhen was photographed in the Parc des Chanteraines near Gennevilliers in the suburbs of Paris, France.
Photograph credit: Alexis Lours
If you'd rather have it without the text (to make it smaller), you can use {{Wikipedia:POTD/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}_{{CURRENTDAY}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}} instead.
Alternate picture of the day[edit]
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:
Commons picture of the day[edit]
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:
Interior of the Cathedral of Brasília, Brazil. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and engineered by Joaquim Cardozo, the cathedral is a hyperboloid structure constructed from 16 concrete columns, weighing 90 tons each. Its construction was completed on this day in 1970.
Fun art[edit]
Wikibreak | Third opinion $220 | Chance ? | Request for comment $220 | Arbitration $240 | Jimbo Wales $200 | In the news $260 | On this day $260 | MediaWiki $150 | Did you know $280 | You are banned! |
RFA $200 | WIKIOPOLY | FPC $300 | ||||||||
PERM $180 | POTD $300 | |||||||||
Community discussion | Community discussion | |||||||||
Teahouse $180 | FAC $320 | |||||||||
Developers $200 | Rouge admin $200 | |||||||||
Deletion review $160 | Chance ? | |||||||||
AFD $140 | TFA $350 | |||||||||
Wikimedia Foundation $150 | Edit war (pay $100) | |||||||||
CSD $140 | Main Page $400 |
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BANNED! Just browsing | WikiProject Spam $120 | UAA $100 | Chance ? | AIV $100 | Admin cabal $200 | Teh Drahmaz (pay $200) | AN $60 | Community discussion | ANI $60 |
Signs[edit]
Troll-free zone[edit]
WikiLove-zone[edit]
Logos & symbols[edit]
- Stolen from Supernerd11's page,
<div style="position:absolute; top:-13.2em; left:-15em; background:#f6f6f6; z-index:1;"></div>
- should create a logo that roughly covers the
boringdefault logo. This needs to be tweaked a bit, but gives you an empiric formula of sorts.
Jokes, including prank markup[edit]
Caught you[edit]
(Refresh) |
Instead of doing something useful, You have been staring at this page since 15:07 Friday, May 31, 2024 UTC. |
Other template[edit]
Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.