Wikipedia:Tip of the day/Display template gallery
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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 the Wikipedia server to see the change.
totd
{{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:
totd b
{{totd b}} is a more compact centered version of the above template. Useful for columns:
| Tip of the day... |
 Explaining Wiki markup to other users
The <nowiki> tag is used to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user. Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article. The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable. – – Read More: |
| Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd b}} |
totd3
{{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):
Tip of the day...
Explaining Wiki markup to other users
The <nowiki> tag is used to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user. Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article. The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable. – – Read More: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}} |
totd-random
{{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:
Tip of the moment...
 How to provide a link to a specific Google Search
On talk pages, it may be useful to provide a google search link directly in a discussion of a topic's notability or in debates about which name for a subject is the most common. The Wikimedia software that powers Wikipedia lets you make links to Google by including
Which looks like this: Note: It is important not to use spaces in the search. To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for To provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link
Which looks like this: To clean up the link so that only the part you want to show is presented, use the pipe, like this:
Which makes it look like this: – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}} |
totd-tomorrow
{{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:
tip of the day
{{tip of the day}} is a borderless left-justified version, with light bulb:
| Tip of the day...
Explaining Wiki markup to other users
The <nowiki> tag is used to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user. Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article. The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable. – – Read More: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day}} |
tip of the day with h3 heading
{{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
The <nowiki> tag is used to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user.
Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article.
The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable.
totd2
{{totd2}} is the borderless left-justified version used on Wikipedia's Help page—which already has its own borders (No light bulb):
| Tip of the day...
Explaining Wiki markup to other users
The <nowiki> tag is used to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user. Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article. The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable. – – Read More: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}} |
totd CP
{{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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Explaining Wiki markup to other users
The <nowiki> tag is used to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user. Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>[[this]]</nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article. The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable. – – Read More: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}} |
totd-static
{{totd-static}} is like the totd version but the date is static. You have to manually change the date. Good for tip testing purposes.
| 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. – – Read more: 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). |
See also
- 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