Wikipedia:Tip of the day/Display template gallery

This is a gallery of Wikipedia tip-of-the-day (TOTD) display templates. To add the TOTD display template to your User or Talk page just put curly braces around the display template name and copy/paste it in to your User or Talk page, and save it.

Note: After saving, you may have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. Internet Explorer: hold down the Ctrl key and click the Refresh or Reload button. Firefox: hold down the Shift key while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R). Google Chrome and Safari users can just click the Reload button. For details and instructions about other browsers, see: Wikipedia:Bypass your cache.

You may have to Purge the Wikipedia server to see the change.

{{totd}} is the main userspace version of the tip of the day display template, with light blue border, centered in the middle of the page. Complete with inspirational light bulb.

Note: This is the only template that can take one optional parameter: border-color, which is used to adjust the border color from the default (#ADD8E6). For example: {{totd|border-color=#444444}} would render a dark gray border instead of the light blue shown below by default:

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{{totd b}} is a more compact centered version of the above template. Useful for columns:

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Tip of the day...

Wikipedia in brief The Wikipedia in brief page provides a concise explanation of the online encyclopedia's purpose. Wikipedia aims to be a neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts. This basic information is valuable to everyone: readers, editors, journalists and the general public. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Five pillars   Wikipedia Introduction

Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd b}}

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{{totd3}} is a left-aligned purple box version, useful for displaying the tip in columns (or instead you may align-right or align-center using the
{{right|{{totd3}}}} or {{center|{{totd3}}}} templates):

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Tip of the day... Wikipedia in brief The Wikipedia in brief page provides a concise explanation of the online encyclopedia's purpose. Wikipedia aims to be a neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts. This basic information is valuable to everyone: readers, editors, journalists and the general public. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Five pillars   Wikipedia Introduction   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}

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{{totd-random}} is a centered tip of the moment template, that automatically displays a different tip every time you enter the page it is on. If the tip does not update, try clearing or purging your browser or server cache:

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Tip of the moment... Same titles, different meanings To distinguish between pages that would otherwise have the exact same title, disambiguation is needed. Unless one meaning clearly dominates, the article should be replaced with a disambiguation page, e.g. Pan, which links to the different meanings with a qualifier in parentheses, e.g. Pan (mythology) vs. Pan (moon), or using a more specific natural name, e.g. cooking pan. If there is one dominant meaning, (cat), add a link to a disambiguation page‍—‌cat (disambiguation)‍—‌or to the secondary meaning if there is only one, on top of the article. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Disambiguation'   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

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{{totd-tomorrow}} is a centered version that shows tomorrow's tip, and is used by Wikipedia tipsters to make sure that the tips are up-to-date and corrected before they go live:

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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... Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips And of course, it's a baker's dozen... Create a user account (how and why) Please sign your name on talk pages Look before you leap (check for existing articles before you create one on that topic) How to start a new article How to make links to articles How to insert a picture into an article Where on the page to put images A better wiki editor: wikEd Check your work before you save, using Preview Automatic edit summary reminder How to move/rename a page Redirects How to display daily tips on your userpage If you know even more important tips than these, please come to Tip of the day and add them to our tip collection. Enlighten us with your wisdom, and make Wikipedia a better place for everyone. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Tip of the day   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}

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{{tip of the day}} is a borderless left-justified version, with light bulb:

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Tip of the day... Wikipedia in brief The Wikipedia in brief page provides a concise explanation of the online encyclopedia's purpose. Wikipedia aims to be a neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts. This basic information is valuable to everyone: readers, editors, journalists and the general public. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Five pillars   Wikipedia Introduction   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day}}

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{{tip of the day with h3 heading}} creates a version with the tip in heading/paragraph left-justified format (no light bulb):

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The Wikipedia in brief page provides a concise explanation of the online encyclopedia's purpose.

Wikipedia aims to be a neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts.

This basic information is valuable to everyone: readers, editors, journalists and the general public.

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{{totd2}} is the borderless left-justified version used on Wikipedia's Help page‍—‌which already has its own borders (No light bulb):

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Tip of the day... Wikipedia in brief The Wikipedia in brief page provides a concise explanation of the online encyclopedia's purpose. Wikipedia aims to be a neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts. This basic information is valuable to everyone: readers, editors, journalists and the general public. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Five pillars   Wikipedia Introduction   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}

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{{totd CP}} is like the help page version, but with a box and light bulb. It is centered and it spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in:

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Tip of the day... Wikipedia in brief The Wikipedia in brief page provides a concise explanation of the online encyclopedia's purpose. Wikipedia aims to be a neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts. This basic information is valuable to everyone: readers, editors, journalists and the general public. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Five pillars   Wikipedia Introduction   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}

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{{totd-static}} is like the totd version but the date is static. You have to manually change the date. Good for tip testing purposes.

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Visit the Tips departmentedit How to bypass scrolling and clicking When you are done editing, you do not have to scroll or click to summarize your edits, nor to Preview or Save the article. You can jump to the Edit summary box by pressing the Tab ↹ key. To preview the article, press Alt+⇧ Shift+p. To save the article, press Alt+⇧ Shift+s or press ↵ Enter when the cursor is in the Edit summary box. To see the changes you have made so far, press Alt+⇧ Shift+v. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this static template to your user page, use {{totd-static}} To change the static tip date, click on the template link above, edit the template, and add a new date in Month Day format (yearless, no comma, no leading zero, like: February 2).

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• Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 21, list of TOTD templates
• Wikipedia:Tips, the complete library of tips arranged by subject
• Wikipedia:Tip of the day, main project page