Wikipedia:Tip of the day

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Tip of the day...


Navigation popups

The Navigation popups wikitool allows easier access to several Wikipedia features as "popups" which appear when you hover the mouse over links. With this useful tool, when you hover your mouse cursor over a wikilink you can see a preview of the article or image; plus you can activate convenient functions such as going directly to the talk, edit, or history pages. In order to use navigation popups you must be logged in under your own user account and install some JavaScript onto a subpage of your userpage. Full instructions are in the Navigation popups page.

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This is the tip of the day project. It is responsible for developing and maintaining the tip of the day templates that are displayed throughout Wikipedia, and the collection of tips that are displayed by those templates.The tip of the day appears on Wikipedia's Help page, on the Wikipedia:Community Portal, and on many user pages.

For the complete schedule of tips, see below. See also Wikipedia:tips, the complete library of tips arranged by subject.

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[edit] Adding tips

To add one of the many versions of the tip of the day template to your user page, read the Tip of the day tip.

To add your own Wikipedia tips to the tip of the day project, see the instructions on Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day.

[edit] Tip of the day scheduling queue

List of tips

This is the tip scheduling queue. Entries with a left-arrow (←) have not been proofread since last year, and might need to be updated! Please help.

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Another Tip of the moment...


To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area...

Search for the category on that subject, by entering "Category:subject" (where "subject" is the category you want to see) into Wikipedia's search box.

To see if Wikipedia has any lists on the subject, type "list" and your subject into the search box, or check the List of basic topic lists and the List of topic lists.

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To add this template to your user page, use {{Totd-random}}.
Become a Wikipedia tipster

This template is for Wikipedians who can't wait until tomorrow for their next tip!


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Hello there (totd announcements and task list)...

  • The tip set needs to be updated for 2008. New tips are needed, and existing tips need to be updated.
  • The tip archive for 2007 has been completed.
  • Help sort. The tip library has a section at the end with tips that need to be placed in the appropriate section on the page.

Tomorrow's tip of the day...

Inserting a picture in an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[Image:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{caption}]]

Only [[Image:{name}]] is required. The other details are optional and can be placed in any order. They are:

Type 
'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.
Location 
'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.
Size 
{width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 and height to 40). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to.
Caption 
Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader wouldn't have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image.

If you have a picture that isn't already in Wikipedia's image collection that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first.

Read more (includes examples): Wikipedia:Extended image syntax

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This template is for monitoring the project queue one day in advance for any editing needs.

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