Wikipedia:User page design guide/Decor
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If you'd like maple leaves falling like snow on any of your user pages, place {{Wikiproject Canada cascading leafs}} on those.
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If you'd like a continuous refill reminder, the floating cup of coffee can be put in place by using this code: {{User:Yworo/havacuppa}}
Or, if you'd rather share a virtual cup of tea with your user or user talk page visitors, try this: {{User:The Transhumanist/cup-o-tea}}
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Tip of the Day
Tip of the moment...
 Featured article candidates
While a good article is a satisfactory article, a featured article exemplifies our very best work and has the following attributes:
Articles achieving GA status are candidates for FA-Class (Featured Article) status. Examples of featured articles are viewable daily at Wikipedia's Main Page. – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}} |
Tip of the day...
Getting your edit count
Instead of counting your edits 500 at a time in your contributions list, you could look up your grand total on your Preferences page. Your number of edits is listed under "Basic information", near the top of the page. To get more details about your edits, try X!Tools's Edit Counter, which tallies up all your edits of each area of Wikipedia, and displays the totals for each and the grand total. It also shows the number of unique pages edited, the average edits per page, number of edits still active, and how many edits have been deleted. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}} |
The Tip of the Day project provides a different piece of advice for using Wikipedia every day. Like the Picture of the Day, you can include it on your userpage by adding {{totd}} somewhere (at the top of your talk page is a good place for it). The randomized version (displayed above) is {{totd-random}}, and shows a different tip each time it is displayed on your screen. Other formats for the TOTD exist, such as the more compact {{totd3}}, or you can make your own by including {{Wikipedia:Tip of the day/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} on your userpage (which includes the raw text, without any formatting) and then enclose it in your own formatting. To float the tip of the day to the right of content (as it is displayed here), place this code where you want the tip to show up: {{right|{{totd3}}}}.
Style tips
A spin off of the tip of the day, this is another template that provides useful instruction a little at a time.
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 Quotations within quotations
According to Robertson, "when Haversham claims 'the theory is universal', he is disregarding two critical limitations". Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}} |
To place it on your userpage, copy and paste this:
{{Styletips}}
Barnometer
This is an example of a Barnometer, to display the barnstars you've received in a humorous timescale. You can check the coding and then tweak it according to your own needs. Hold your mouse pointer over each barnstar to read each greeting.
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| noob | involved | been around | veteran | seen it all | older than the Cabal itself |
Mottos/slogans/quotes/thoughtboxes
Mottos
There's a motto of the day project, called, you guessed it: Wikipedia:Motto of the day. To use it, just place {{Motd}} on your user page!
Here's what it looks like:
Today's motto...
→ Some books are drenched sands,
On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.
Thoughtboxes
This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:
Quotes
Quote of the week: {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Quote}}
| “ | Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. |
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| — Frederick Douglass | ||
Random quote: {{Randomquote}}
Be careful about reading health books: You may die of a misprint.
Pics and images
There is a huge selection of pictures on Wikipedia and its sister site Wikimedia Commons. Pictures can be a powerful way to express yourself...
Pictures can be found all over Wikipedia, but it can be very time-consuming to hunt for them in the encyclopedia's articles. Another option is to browse Wikipedia's collections...
Image categories
Some images can be found in the categorical index, at:
But most of the images used on Wikipedia are kept at:
- Wikimedia Commons (plus a whole lot more)
Featured pictures
Featured pictures can also be found in the picture of the day archive:
A monthly archive of Wikipedia's featured pictures
There is usually a long delay before a featured picture is scheduled into the picture of the day system, so two other places to look for featured pictures are:
Picture(s) of the day
The Picture of the Day, which changes daily, is currently displayed every day on the Main Page, and you can use it to decorate your userpage as well...
Here's what the various picture of the day templates look like. To place them on your user page, include the corresponding double-curly bracket code, and the picture will be displayed automagically:
{{pic of the day}}
{{POTD}}
{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}
Mary I (1516–1558) was the queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. The only child of Henry VIII with his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother, Edward VI. During her five-year reign, she had more than 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions. After her death, Mary gained the posthumous sobriquet "Bloody Mary", and Protestantism was re-established by her successor Elizabeth I. This oil portrait on panel of Mary was painted by the Dutch artist Antonis Mor in 1554, and is in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
Painting credit: Antonis Mor
If you'd rather have it without the text (to make it smaller), you can use {{Wikipedia:POTD/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}_{{CURRENTDAY}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}} instead.
Alternate picture of the day
To display the alternate picture of the day from the no-restrictions anybody-can-add-a-pic-right-now picture project, use {{rpotd}}, which displays this:
Unlike PotD, these pictures are not featured. You can use {{rpotd}} to add the daily random picture to your userpage.
To display the alternate cool random picture of the day from User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator, use {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator}}, which displays this:
Commons picture of the day
You can also display the Commons Picture of the Day, which is different from the featured picture displayed on the main page, with {{WP:Wikimedia Commons/POTD}}. Which shows this:
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A previously unpublished illustration intended for the Saturday Evening Post's 1943 New Year's edition. It was never used due to publisher demands that the illustrator, J.C. Leyendecker, create a more optimistic and patriotic cover that was sensitive to the families of American soldiers. It was publicly shown for the first time in 2020 as part of an auction.
Fun art
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| Developers $200 | Rouge admin $200 | |||||||||
| Deletion review $160 | Chance ? | |||||||||
| AFD $140 | TFA $350 | |||||||||
| Wikimedia Foundation $150 | Edit war (pay $100) | |||||||||
| CSD $140 | Main Page $400 |
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BANNED! Just browsing | WikiProject Spam $120 | UAA $100 | Chance ? | AIV $100 | Admin cabal $200 | Teh Drahmaz (pay $200) | AN $60 | Community discussion | ANI $60 | Go Collect $200 salary as you pass  |
Signs
Troll-free zone
WikiLove-zone
Logos & symbols
- Stolen from Supernerd11's page,
{{#parsoid
- should create a logo that roughly covers the
boringdefault logo. This needs to be tweaked a bit, but gives you an empiric formula of sorts.
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Jokes, including prank markup
Caught you
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Instead of doing something useful, You have been staring at this page since 02:09 Monday, March 23, 2026 UTC. |
Other template
Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.