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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...
Counting your edits
Instead of counting your edits 500 at a time in your contributions list, you can use X's tools Edit counter which tallies your edits of each area of Wikipedia, and displays subtotals and total as well as general statistics, year counts, month counts and top edited pages. – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Tip of the day...
How to make links to articles
When you are editing an article in Wikipedia, and you want to create a link to another Wikipedia article, place double square brackets around the topic you wish to link to. For example:
produces this link:
produces this link: – – 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}}}}.
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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Dates
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...
→ Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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 anotherI know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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}}
Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by the French composer Claude Debussy. The French-language libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play Pelléas and Mélisande. The plot concerns a love triangle between Prince Golaud, Mélisande (a mysterious young woman he had found lost in a forest), and Golaud's younger half-brother Pelléas. The only opera Debussy ever completed, Pelléas et Mélisande premiered on 30 April 1902 at the Salle Favart in Paris, performed by the Opéra-Comique, with Jean Périer as Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande. The premiere was conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work. This poster by the French painter Georges Rochegrosse was produced for the premiere.
Poster credit: Georges Rochegrosse; restored by Adam Cuerden
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:
Photomontage - Composite of 16 different photos which have been digitally manipulated to give the impression that it is a real c:landscape. Software used: Adobe Photoshop
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 14:39 Tuesday, April 30, 2024 UTC. |
Other template[edit]
Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.