Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Yearless
This page is used to test Wikipedia:Tip of the day/Yearless tips pages and the related template modifications. Please add any feedback at the Discussion section.
Tips tests
Tips templates
If you would like to display the tip of the day on your userpage, here's how:
Edit your userpage and insert one or more of the following strings:
- {{totd-random}} - this is the tip of the moment template, which automatically displays a different tip every time you enter a page it is on (to a maximum of one time per minute). If it doesn't update, try clearing your browser cache.
- {{totd}} - the main userspace version of the tip of the day template, with border, centered in the middle of the page. Complete with inspirational lightbulb.
- {{totd b}} - a more compact version of the above template. Useful for columns.
- {{totd-tomorrow}} - this shows tomorrow's tip, and is used by Wikipedia tipsters to make sure that the tips never run out. If they did run out, a red link would show up on Wikipedia's Community Portal and Help Page, which would be very embarrassing. This template shows the redlink one day in advance, as an early-warning system.
- {{Tip of the day}} - the borderless version, with lightbulb.
- {{Tip of the day - community portal}} - the underlined-heading version used on the community portal. (No lightbulb).
- {{totd2}} - the borderless version used on Wikipedia's Help page (which already has its own borders). (No lightbulb).
- {{totd3}} - a purple box version, useful for displaying the tip in columns.
- {{totd CP}} - like the help page version, but with a box. Spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in.
totd
This is the Tip of the day: {{totd}}
This is the yearless Tip of the day: {{totd-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day...
 Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}.
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totd b
Compact totd: {{totd b}}
| Tip of the day... |
 Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: |
| Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd b}} |
Yearless version: {{totd b-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day... |
Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: |
| Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this box to your user page, use {{totd b}}. |
totd-tomorrow
Tomorrow's totd: {{totd-tomorrow}}
| 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... Spreading the WikiLove
 WikiLove is a term that refers to a general spirit of collegiality and mutual understanding among wiki users. It was coined over time on the mailing lists. If we keep this common goal, this love of knowledge, in mind, if we concentrate on achieving a neutral point of view even when it is difficult, and if we try to actually understand what the other side has to say, then we can reach the state of "WikiLove". To enable an easy widget for placing WikiLove on Talk pages, go to the editing tab of your Preferences, check off the box for Enable showing appreciation for other users with the WikiLove tab, scroll to the bottom of the preferences page, and save your change. Or you can manually use the templates linked below. Happy editing, and spread WikiLove! – – Read more: Wikipedia:WikiLove To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}
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Yearless version: {{totd-tomorrow-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
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Hello there (totd announcements and task list)...
Spreading the WikiLove
WikiLove is a term that refers to a general spirit of collegiality and mutual understanding among wiki users. It was coined over time on the mailing lists. If we keep this common goal, this love of knowledge, in mind, if we concentrate on achieving a neutral point of view even when it is difficult, and if we try to actually understand what the other side has to say, then we can reach the state of "WikiLove". To enable an easy widget for placing WikiLove on Talk pages, go to the editing tab of your Preferences, check off the box for Enable showing appreciation for other users with the WikiLove tab, scroll to the bottom of the preferences page, and save your change. Or you can manually use the templates linked below. Happy editing, and spread WikiLove! – – Read more: Wikipedia:WikiLove
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}.
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Tip of the day
Borderless totd: {{Tip of the day}}
| Tip of the day...
Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{tip of the day}} |
Yearless version: {{Tip of the day-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the day...
Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{Tip of the day}}.
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Tip of the day - community portal
Community Portal totd (This version includes section heading.): {{Tip of the day - community portal}}
Tip of the day
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox.
After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check 
mark the minor edit box quickly.
Yearless version: {{Tip of the day - community portal-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
Tip of the day
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox.
After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check mark the minor edit box quickly.
totd2
Help page totd: {{totd2}}
| Tip of the day...
Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}
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Yearless version: {{totd2-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
totd3
Purple box totd: {{totd3}}
Tip of the day...
Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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Yearless version: {{totd3-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
Tip of the day...
Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: |
totd CP
Boxed help page totd: {{totd CP}}
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Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd CP}}
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Yearless version: {{totd CP-y}} It should look the same as the above tip.
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Shortcut for minor edit box
When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with the minor edits checkbox. After filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check – – Read more: |
totd-random
Randomized totd: {{totd-random}}
| Tip of the moment...
Search box bookmarklet for your browser
Bookmarklets are Javascript programs that are stored as bookmarks in your browser, and which run when you click on them as opposed to bringing you to a page like a normal bookmark. Here is one that conducts a search in Wikipedia on any text you happen to have highlighted in whichever window you are in (or if no text is highlighted, presents you with a popup search box): ~axel/bookmarklet.html. See also Bookmarklets. – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Yearless version: {{totd-random-y}} It might or might not look the same as the above tip.
| Tip of the moment...
Beware of instruction creep
Also called instructionitis, instruction creep is the tendency of instructions to grow and grow, until they become so long and complex that nobody wants to read them. When editing help pages, or instructions for Wikipedia's departments, please make them clear and concise, reducing them whenever possible. – – Read more:
To add this template to your user page, use {{Totd-random}}.
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Discussion
This will definitely save a lot of work, or at least provide a default in case no one bothers to write new tips. They'll need to be monitored for relevance and be updated in cases in which they no longer apply, but that's pretty obvious.
So the tips will be displayed in the same order, year after year? That'll create some deja vu! 
. Is there any way to randomize the tips so that on any particular day the same tip is displayed for everybody throughout the whole day? The Transhumanist 23:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Anything is possible. My first thought was to do something like that - daily randomization - but a concern for high profile pages is reviewability. That's why I went with a more simple and predictable approach. It's also always possible to mix up - switch around - content if anyone want to do that. Rfrisbietalk 00:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- All looks good to me. --Quiddity 03:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
If I see no objections by the weekend, I'm going to convert the templates over to use the yearless pages. Rfrisbietalk 05:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)