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 the Wikipedia server to see the change.
totd
[edit]{{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
[edit]{{totd b}} is a more compact centered version of the above template. Useful for columns:
| Tip of the day... |
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totd3
[edit]{{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...
Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click
You can do this with bookmarklets, such as the one you can download on this page. Follow the above link, and drag the Wikipedia search bookmarklet provided there to your browser's toolbar. This creates a bookmark called Wikipedia search which is actually the activation button for a useful javascript program. The next time you want to look something up while browsing any given web-page, highlight the term and then click on your Wikipedia search bookmark. – – Read more: Bookmarklet To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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totd-random
[edit]{{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...
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totd-tomorrow
[edit]{{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...
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By the way...the WikiProject Portals is currently redesigning and revamping the entire portals system, and could use all the help it can get. New participants are welcome. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}
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tip of the day
[edit]{{tip of the day}} is a borderless left-justified version, with light bulb:
| Tip of the day...
Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click
You can do this with bookmarklets, such as the one you can download on this page. Follow the above link, and drag the Wikipedia search bookmarklet provided there to your browser's toolbar. This creates a bookmark called Wikipedia search which is actually the activation button for a useful javascript program. The next time you want to look something up while browsing any given web-page, highlight the term and then click on your Wikipedia search bookmark. – – Read more: Bookmarklet To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{tip of the day}} |
tip of the day with h3 heading
[edit]{{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
[edit]You can do this with bookmarklets, such as the one you can download on this page.
Follow the above link, and drag the Wikipedia search bookmarklet provided there to your browser's toolbar. This creates a bookmark called Wikipedia search which is actually the activation button for a useful javascript program. The next time you want to look something up while browsing any given web-page, highlight the term and then click on your Wikipedia search bookmark.
totd2
[edit]{{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...
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You can do this with bookmarklets, such as the one you can download on this page. Follow the above link, and drag the Wikipedia search bookmarklet provided there to your browser's toolbar. This creates a bookmark called Wikipedia search which is actually the activation button for a useful javascript program. The next time you want to look something up while browsing any given web-page, highlight the term and then click on your Wikipedia search bookmark. – – Read more: Bookmarklet To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}
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totd CP
[edit]{{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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Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click
You can do this with bookmarklets, such as the one you can download on this page. Follow the above link, and drag the Wikipedia search bookmarklet provided there to your browser's toolbar. This creates a bookmark called Wikipedia search which is actually the activation button for a useful javascript program. The next time you want to look something up while browsing any given web-page, highlight the term and then click on your Wikipedia search bookmark. – – Read more: Bookmarklet To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}
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totd-static
[edit]{{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
[edit]- 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