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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
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Tip of the Day
[edit]Tip of the moment...
How to make your watchlist easier to read
If you use Firefox, there is a user script you can install called Watchlist sorter. This script sorts your watchlist by namespace, and adds spaces within each entry. This makes the watchlist much easier to read. To install the script, copy/paste the following line into your your common.js page. This will install the script across all your skins.
Note: After saving, you have to Bypass your cache. To do this in Firefox, hold down the ⇧ Shift key while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+R). Or, you may have to {{ }} the Wikipedia server cache. – – To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Tip of the day...
How to link to word definitions
Wikipedia has a sister project that presents hundreds of thousands of word definitions. It's called Wiktionary. Let's say you are writing a sentence and you want to create a link to the definition of a word, the understanding of which is crucial to understanding that article. But in this hypothetical situation, you don't want to link to the Wikipedia page for that word because doing so would be overkill. So, using our Source Editor, here's how you would provide a link to the definition of "understanding" on Wiktionary: both [[wiktionary:understanding|]] and [[wikt:understanding|]] will display like this: and will link to the definition of the word "understanding". Notice that the "pipe trick" (|) was used in the links above. – – 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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The year ...
1995, not the year 1995,
unless the meaning would otherwise be unclear.
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...
→ There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Thoughtboxes
[edit]This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:
Quotes
[edit]Quote of the week: {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Quote}}
“ | All of us are put in boxes by our family, by our religion, by our society, our moment in history, even our own bodies. Some people have the courage to break free.
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— Geena Rocero |
Random quote: {{Randomquote}}
Show anotherThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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
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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}}
La Promenade is an early Impressionist painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created in 1870. The oil-on-canvas work depicts a young couple on an excursion outside a city, walking on a woodland path. Influenced by the Rococo Revival style during the Second French Empire, the work reflects the older style and themes of eighteenth-century artists like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Antoine Watteau. It also shows the influence of Claude Monet on Renoir's new approach to painting. La Promenade now hangs in the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.
Painting credit: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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:
Mountain hiking of parking in power station Malga Mare to Lago Lungo 2553 m. Views of Monte Cevedale (3769 m).
Fun art
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PERM $180 | POTD $300 | |||||||||
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Developers $200 | Rouge admin $200 | |||||||||
Deletion review $160 | Chance ? | |||||||||
AFD $140 | TFA $350 | |||||||||
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CSD $140 | Main Page $400 |
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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
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Instead of doing something useful, You have been staring at this page since 04:24 Wednesday, September 25, 2024 UTC. |
Other template
[edit]Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.