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The floating cup of coffee is placed by using this code: {{User:Yworo/havacuppa}}

"Have a cuppa... Coffee?"
"Have a cuppa... Coffee?"


You are getting very sleepy...





Banners and buttons

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Tip of the Day

Tip of the moment...
Motto of the day...
→ Dominus illuminatio mea
("The Lord is my light")

The Motto of the Day (MOTD) is a way of displaying an inspirational or intellectually invigorating daily quote for fellow Wikipedians. It is designed to be easily added to your user page(s).

There are several formats to choose from. The random motto version – {{Random motto}} – is displayed above. It shows a different motto each time you refresh the page. Add the template (including the four curly braces) to your User page.

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}


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.

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
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}}}}.

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...
→ Dominus illuminatio mea
("The Lord is my light")


Nominate one today!

Thoughtboxes

This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:

What happens when a Wikipedian dies? He or she just doesn't show up to edit anymore. Does anybody notice? Does anybody really even care? To all those Wikipedians who may have died and been forgotten here, Thank you for your contributions and Rest in Peace.

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...

Terrorists don't have the Bomb... Yet.
Mountains in New Hampshire.

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

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Some images can be found in the categorical index, at:

But most of the images used on Wikipedia are kept at:

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

2007: 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}}

Atari video game burial
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
Archive – More featured pictures...


{{POTD}}

Atari video game burial
Photograph credit: taylorhatmaker


{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}

Atari video game burial

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:

Image credit: [[User:Dthx1138 (talk)|Dthx1138 (talk)]] ([[User talk:Dthx1138 (talk)|talk]] · [[Special:Contribs/Dthx1138 (talk)|contribs]])



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

<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 boring default 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


(Refresh) 		        Instead of doing something useful,
You have been staring at this page since 05:36 Tuesday, July 22, 2025 UTC.

Other template

Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.

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