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Tip of the Day
Tip of the moment...
 Not everything that is true is verifiable
One of the most important criteria for inclusion of articles in Wikipedia is verifiability. Wikipedia is not a place to publish original research. Instead, we restate, summarize and structure knowledge that has already been published in many forms. So, wherever possible, include a source for your information that readers can follow up. – – Read more: To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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Tip of the day...
What did they say?
Sometimes Wikipedians sound like they are speaking in a foreign language, even when they are not. This is because Wikipedians have created a great number of specialized terms (jargon) pertaining to Wikipedia and the activity of Wikipedians. Fortunately, being the encyclopedists that they are, they have also created a Wikipedia Glossary to explain these terms. Remember, actual encyclopedia articles should be written in jargon-free language which is readily understandable without specific knowledge of the Wikipedia project. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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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}}}}.
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...
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Thoughtboxes
This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:
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
2004:
May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2005:
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2006: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
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 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}}
.jpg?lang=en)
{{POTD}}
{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}
The Atari video game burial was a 1983 mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers, undertaken by the American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc., at a landfill site in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The burial occurred amid the video game crash of 1983, at the end of a disastrous fiscal year that saw Atari being sold off by its parent company Warner Communications. It included 700,000 cartridges of various games, including unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), one of the largest video game failures in history. For several decades after the burial was first reported, there were doubts as to its veracity and scope, and it was frequently dismissed as an urban legend. In 2013 and 2014, an excavation was carried out by Fuel Industries, Microsoft, the New Mexico government and others, which revealed discarded games and hardware. Only a small fraction, about 1,300 cartridges, were recovered, with a portion reserved for curation and the rest auctioned to raise money for a museum to commemorate the burial. This photograph shows packaging for cartridges of the video games E.T. and Centipede in situ at the excavation site.
Photograph credit: taylorhatmaker
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.
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:
An Airstream Safari trailer in Joshua Tree National Park at dusk. Airstream founder Wally Byam died on this day in 1962.
Signs
Troll-free zone
WikiLove-zone
Logos & symbols
- Stolen from Supernerd11's page,
<div style="position:absolute; top:-13.2em; left:-15em; background:#f6f6f6; z-index:1;">[[File:Wikipedialogoexplode.gif|160px]]</div>
- 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.
The lasting effects of bureaucracy
Jokes, including prank markup
Caught you
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Instead of doing something useful, You have been staring at this page since 00:21 Tuesday, July 22, 2025 UTC. |
Other template
Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.