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

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{{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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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

totd b

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


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


totd3

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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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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}

totd-random

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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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Featured content

The Wikipedia community decides whether articles meet certain criteria to be selected as Featured articles, representing the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A different featured article is chosen to appear on the Main Page every day. Any user can nominate an article as a Featured article candidate, or comment on any of the existing candidate articles.

Similar processes select Featured lists, Featured pictures, Featured portals, Featured topics and Featured sounds.

To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

totd-tomorrow

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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:


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 links to disambiguation pages appear orange to you

Sometimes, a desired topic link goes to a disambiguation page instead. This tip lets you spot them without having to click on them first, so you can more easily help fix them.

In preferences under the gadgets tab, check the box next to "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange", and then click the save button at the bottom of the page.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}


tip of the day

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


Tip of the day...
 
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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
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tip of the day with h3 heading

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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):


Tip of the day

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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day with h3 heading}}

totd2

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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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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}

totd CP

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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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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}

totd-static

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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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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.

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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See also

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