Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Yearless
This page is used to test Wikipedia:Tip of the day/Yearless tips pages and the related template modifications. Please add any feedback at the Discussion section.
Tips tests
Tips templates
If you would like to display the tip of the day on your userpage, here's how:
Edit your userpage and insert one or more of the following strings:
- {{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 (to a maximum of one time per minute). If it doesn't update, try clearing your browser cache.
- {{totd}} - the main userspace version of the tip of the day template, with border, centered in the middle of the page. Complete with inspirational lightbulb.
- {{totd b}} - a more compact version of the above template. Useful for columns.
- {{totd-tomorrow}} - this shows tomorrow's tip, and is used by Wikipedia tipsters to make sure that the tips never run out. If they did run out, a red link would show up on Wikipedia's Community Portal and Help Page, which would be very embarrassing. This template shows the redlink one day in advance, as an early-warning system.
- {{Tip of the day}} - the borderless version, with lightbulb.
- {{Tip of the day - community portal}} - the underlined-heading version used on the community portal. (No lightbulb).
- {{totd2}} - the borderless version used on Wikipedia's Help page (which already has its own borders). (No lightbulb).
- {{totd3}} - a purple box version, useful for displaying the tip in columns.
- {{totd CP}} - like the help page version, but with a box. Spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in.
totd
This is the Tip of the day: {{totd}}
This is the yearless Tip of the day: {{totd-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day...
 Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – –
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}.
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totd b
Compact totd: {{totd b}}
| Tip of the day... |
 Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – |
| Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd b}} |
Yearless version: {{totd b-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day... |
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – |
| Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this box to your user page, use {{totd b}}. |
totd-tomorrow
Tomorrow's totd: {{totd-tomorrow}}
| 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... How to make a table on a page
Using the Wikipedia text editor:
Another box will appear allowing you to set up the number of rows and columns and style of the table. Using the Visual Editor:
– – See also: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}
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Yearless version: {{totd-tomorrow-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
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Hello there (totd announcements and task list)...
How to make a table on a page
Using the Wikipedia text editor:
Another box will appear allowing you to set up the number of rows and columns and style of the table. Using the Visual Editor:
– – See also:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}.
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Tip of the day
Borderless totd: {{Tip of the day}}
| Tip of the day...
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{tip of the day}} |
Yearless version: {{Tip of the day-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day...
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{Tip of the day}}.
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Tip of the day - community portal
Community Portal totd (This version includes section heading.): {{Tip of the day - community portal}}
Tip of the day
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers).
These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work.
Yearless version: {{Tip of the day - community portal-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
Tip of the day
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers).
These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work.
totd2
Help page totd: {{totd2}}
| Tip of the day...
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}
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Yearless version: {{totd2-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
totd3
Purple box totd: {{totd3}}
Tip of the day...
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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Yearless version: {{totd3-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
Tip of the day...
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – |
totd CP
Boxed help page totd: {{totd CP}}
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Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}
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Yearless version: {{totd CP-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
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Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work. – – |
totd-random
Randomized totd: {{totd-random}}
| Tip of the moment...
Help for new contributors
We have over 100 "help" pages, which are listed here: {{Wikipedia help pages}}. To ask a question or request help concerning Wikipedia, visit Questions. – – See also: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Yearless version: {{totd-random-y}} It might or might not look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the moment...
How to provide a Google search in a link
Here is an example of a link which activates a Google search: Tip of the day, on Wikipedia It was built using this wikilink: Sometimes it is useful to place a link to a Google search directly in a discussion. You can also use links to predefine an entire search session, and then use a tool like WP:LINKY to open the searches all at once into separate web browser tabs. – – Read more:
To add this template to your user page, use {{Totd-random}}.
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Discussion
This will definitely save a lot of work, or at least provide a default in case no one bothers to write new tips. They'll need to be monitored for relevance and be updated in cases in which they no longer apply, but that's pretty obvious.
So the tips will be displayed in the same order, year after year? That'll create some deja vu! 
. Is there any way to randomize the tips so that on any particular day the same tip is displayed for everybody throughout the whole day? The Transhumanist 23:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Anything is possible. My first thought was to do something like that - daily randomization - but a concern for high profile pages is reviewability. That's why I went with a more simple and predictable approach. It's also always possible to mix up - switch around - content if anyone want to do that. Rfrisbietalk 00:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- All looks good to me. --Quiddity 03:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
If I see no objections by the weekend, I'm going to convert the templates over to use the yearless pages. Rfrisbietalk 05:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)