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What writing style to use

Wikipedia articles are composed and formatted according to the Manual of Style (MOS). MOS sets the house standard on Wikipedia for attributes like link formatting, capitalization, punctuation, and sections. MOS includes guidelines for biographies, citations, titles, dates and numbers, proper names, and many other stylistic details.

Some examples of the elements of style in the MOS are:

• Article titles‍—‌use normal body text capitalization for titles (beginning letter, capitalize proper nouns, etc.), and apply the singular form in titles wherever possible.
• Capitalization‍—‌do not capitalize all words in section headings, or non-proper nouns
• Link placement‍—‌list external links in their own section at the bottom of an article
• Punctuation‍—‌remember the serial comma (Oxford comma) and logical quotes
• Sections‍—‌an informative lead section is important. See also a user-written lead creation essay.

To place the MOS template at the right on your User page for easy reference, edit your User page and copy/paste: {{style}} (including the curly braces).

Please follow the MOS guidelines when you update an article.

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This is the tip of the day (a.k.a. TOTD) project, providing useful daily advice on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. This project is responsible for maintaining the Wikipedia:Tip of the day#Tip templates, and the collection of daily tips that are displayed by those templates.

History

The Tip of the Day was started on February 18, 2004 as an original feature of the newly created Community Portal. There were about 50 tips, displayed one per day, on a rotating basis.

In 2006, the project was revamped and expanded to a tip page for each day of the year. Later that year, a "yearless tip" was created, with no year included in the page titles, so that the same pages could be displayed automatically year after year. The tip collection grew to about 300 tips - still about 66 tips short of a full supply.

The tip of the day was added to the main help page, Help:Contents, on March 13, 2006. That page was renamed on September 20, 2012, to Help:Menu, to make way for a new main help page. In 2015, the tip of the day project underwent an overhaul, during which the display template functionality was enhanced and simplified, many new tips were added, replacing obsolete and duplicate tips. The tip of the day was added to the current help page on November 22, 2015.

Over the years, Tip of the Day project regulars, and other helpful editors have maintained the set of auto-displaying tips, updating them, and creating new tips to replace redundant or obsolete tips.

Check the prominent locations

The three main places that the Tip of the Day is displayed, are the Community portal page (since 02/18/2004), the Help:Contents page (the top-level help page), and the Help:Menu (this was Help:Contents until 09/20/2012).

Sometimes the tip gets removed from those pages, either through vandalism or by an overly bold edit. If you notice it missing from any of them, please put it back. Thank you.

Displaying tips on your user pages

To add one of the many versions of the tip of the day template to your user page, go here.

Participating...

To participate in developing, proofreading, and scheduling new tips, see the instructions on the talk page.

Tip of the day scheduling queue

Chronological list of tips

Today is

Thursday

12

December

2024

     

See also: Alphabetical list of tips, to help spot duplicate tips.

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List of tips by date

This is the tip of the day scheduling queue. The TOTD system operates on the Rolodex approach, in which each daily tip page is automatically displayed again year after year. Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it has not grown out of date or become obsolete! Please help. For questions, comments, or to submit a new tip please go to our Project's Talk page. Now, without further ado, here are Wikipedia's daily tips, by presentation date: January 1 – Where to begin? January 2 – Article development January 3 – Are your hands full? (Use search box as a small but convenient clipboard) January 4 – How to make your watchlist easier to read January 5 – How to improve Wikipedia's reliability January 6 – How to send a message to other editors January 7 – Image processing tools January 8 – What are dummy edits good for? January 9 – Digital audio support January 10 – Introduction to navigating Wikipedia January 11 – Captions January 12 – Avoiding common mistakes January 13 – A self-guided tutorial January 14 – Article quality assessments January 15 – Archives for lengthy pages January 16 – Article banner templates January 17 – What is a Talk page? January 18 – How to easily recall a username January 19 – Preview tomorrow's Featured Article January 20 – User scripts examples January 21 – Good article nominations January 22 – How to reduce or enlarge font sizes January 23 – Search and replace while editing an article. January 24 – Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB January 25 – Ask for help at Wikipedia's Help Desk January 26 – Souping up your Smartphone editing of Wikipedia January 27 – The semi-automated article peer-reviewer January 28 – How to request help on your Talk page January 29 – Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning) January 30 – What are page history diffs? January 31 – Find articles for cleanup February 1 – Automatic page loader. February 2 – Redirect synonymous topic names February 3 – Fixing bare URLs to prevent link rot February 4 – Join a WikiProject. February 5 – Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat) February 6 – Articles about notable books February 7 – How to provide a link to a specific Google Search February 8 – Wikipedia Search box - basic February 9 – Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box February 10 – Referencing for beginners February 11 – Another way to search Wikipedia with Google February 12 – Introduction to tables February 13 – Shortcut for minor edit box February 14 – Spreading the WikiLove February 15 – Templates for Age and Dates February 16 – Thanks - send a notification February 17 – Mobile view sidebar from the desktop February 18 – Using the Authority control template February 19 – When to use subpages February 20 – How to enable right-click section editing February 21 – Biographies February 22 – Wikipedia banners and buttons February 23 – Help for new contributors February 24 – Calendar date display for your user pages February 25 – Screen readers for accessibility February 26 – Editing projects for school and university classes February 27 – What is Page curation? February 28 – Writing articles for The Signpost February 29 – Please sign your name on talk pages March 1 – How to plant a CategoryTree! March 2 – Test-drive your edits using a sandbox March 3 – Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups March 4 – Supercharge your browser March 5 – How to create a link to another article March 6 – Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles March 7 – Please fill-in edit summaries March 8 – How to get a list of a page's subpages March 9 – Becoming an Administrator March 10 – Where to post requests March 11 – How to make links look the way you want March 12 – Please sign your name on talk pages March 13 – Are you lost? March 14 – How to create a new page March 15 – Wikipedia's top ten power tips March 16 – How to catch admin attention fast March 17 – How to make redirects appear green to you March 18 – Breaking the 500-edit limit in "View History" March 19 – Create links faster using tricks March 20 – Running MediaWiki on your own computer March 21 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts March 22 – Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex) March 23 – Getting your edit count March 24 – Transclusion vs. Substitution March 25 – Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt: March 26 – SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit March 27 – Work faster with keyboard shortcuts March 28 – Ask intelligent questions March 29 – Working on the Main page - I March 30 – Working on the Main page - II March 31 – Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most April 1 – Do not believe everything you read April 2 – Visit the Village Pump for technical issues April 3 – Stop by the Reference Desk April 4 – Where to upload images and media files April 5 – How to fix unsigned comments April 6 – Do not use forums or emails as sources April 7 – Automatic edit summary reminder April 8 – Collaborations April 9 – Search box bookmarklet for your browser April 10 – Cite your sources April 11 – Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowser April 12 – Help Wikipedia help you April 13 – Motto of the day... April 14 – Create a user account April 15 – Copyrights? Copyleft April 16 – Uploading Free Images April 17 – Are you jealous of others' user pages? (WP:UPDG) April 18 – How to change your username April 19 – Preview tomorrow's Featured Article April 20 – Explore Wikipedia's contents April 21 – Featured article candidates April 22 – Wikipedia search box focus April 23 – How to move/rename a page April 24 – The Wikipedia Adventure! April 25 – Super-customize your account with gadgets April 26 – Keyboard shortcuts April 27 – Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?) April 28 – Getting a subpage listing April 29 – Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone April 30 – How to make links to articles May 1 – To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches May 2 – Time-saving links: the "pipe trick" May 3 – Prove it with ProveIt May 4 – Time-saving links II May 5 – Browsing Mobile Wikipedia on your big screen May 6 – Linking to a section of an article May 7 – Sister projects & interwiki linking May 8 – Displaying one page within another = Transclusion May 9 – Using templates May 10 – General topics lists May 11 – Userboxes May 12 – List building May 13 – When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject? May 14 – Centralizing project discussion May 15 – Redirects May 16 – Footnotes May 17 – How to add hidden editor notes in an article May 18 – How to review user contributions May 19 – Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia May 20 – Formatting disambiguation pages May 21 – Featured content May 22 – Table of contents May 23 – Transclusion caveat May 24 – Go to the right desk May 25 – Please return the favor May 26 – Check your work before you save, using Preview May 27 – Where on the page to put images May 28 – Placing templates May 29 – Placing "External links" sections May 30 – Main page - Did you know May 31 – Shortcuts June 1 – Placing category tags June 2 – Page history June 3 – Tag your image uploads June 4 – Placing interlanguage links June 5 – Sorting entries in the categories June 6 – Look before you leap June 7 – How to start a new article June 8 – Talking to Wikipedians June 9 – Cite the source on all image uploads June 10 – Designing your user page June 11 – Use your watchlist June 12 – Navigation popups June 13 – How to insert a picture into an article June 14 – Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox June 15 – Section edit button June 16 – Ask intelligent questions June 17 – Beware of instruction creep June 18 – Fix double redirects June 19 – Alphabetical list of articles June 20 – Screenshots June 21 – Please read department instructions June 22 – When not to use links June 23 – A better wiki editor: WikEd June 24 – Change text size quickly (with Ctrl-mouse wheel) June 25 – Portals June 26 – What are templates used for? June 27 – Pretty tables June 28 – Ask intelligent questions June 29 – Wikipedia for your mobile... June 30 – Custom signatures July 1 – Citation Requests July 2 – Love thy neighbor July 3 – Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board July 4 – Band articles July 5 – List the things to do for an article July 6 – Wikipedia's Manual of Style July 7 – Welcoming Committee July 8 – The three revert rule July 9 – Avoid using neologisms July 10 – The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away July 11 – Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift+Alt+F July 12 – How to use red links July 13 – Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement July 14 – Using Math July 15 – Be forgiving to new users July 16 – Search Wikipedia from any website July 17 – Join the fight against vandalism July 18 – Short link pipe trick July 19 – Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia July 20 – How to make a table on a page July 21 – Displaying tips on your user page Note. Do not change this tip. It is a linked tip on displaying tips! :-) July 22 – What did they say? (Wikijargon) July 23 – Wikipedia industrial-powered search July 24 – Forums and emails are not acceptable sources July 25 – Wikipedia in brief July 26 – Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips July 27 – Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips July 28 – Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page July 29 – Get more out of Wikipedia search July 30 – Wikipedia's Quick directory July 31 – How to link to a category without categorizing the page August 1 – Customize appearance of dates August 2 – Find uncategorized articles August 3 – The lead section August 4 – Articles for Creation (AFC) process August 5 – In conflicts, reach consensus August 6 – How to add an article to a category August 7 – Title searches August 8 – How to watch for pages that do not exist yet August 9 – Abbreviating edit summaries August 10 – How to create a category August 11 – How to search Wikipedia with Google August 12 – How to create reusable boilerplate August 13 – Acronyms and initialisms August 14 – To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area... August 15 – Explaining Wiki markup to other users August 16 – How to create a subcategory August 17 – Article size August 18 – How does Wikipedia stack up? August 19 – Speed up your learning curve... August 20 – What the world knows about us August 21 – How reliable is Wikipedia? August 22 – When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search August 23 – How to link to a category August 24 – Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser August 25 – Where to look for help August 26 – How to link to a section of an article August 27 – Join the Recent Changes Patrol! August 28 – Where did that fact come from? August 29 – How popular is Wikipedia? August 30 – Google search link August 31 – My link disappeared! September 1 – Wikipedia's top ten essential tips September 2 – Spell Checkers September 3 – Install your first javascript September 4 – Guestbooks September 5 – How to use Wikipedia Offline: xowa September 6 – Subject bar template September 7 – Article construction stages September 8 – Wikipedia Search box - advanced September 9 – Good article reassessment September 10 – Biography articles needing attention September 11 – Article deletion process September 12 – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) September 13 – Copyright Cleanup September 14 – Wikipedia Database reports September 15 – CopyPatrol tool September 16 – Featured world of Wikipedia September 17 – Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click September 18 – Difference between wikiprojects and portals? September 19 – Graphics Lab September 20 – Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox September 21 – How do you pronounce that? September 22 – External links September 23 – Counting your edits September 24 – Main page - Did you know September 25 – How to link to word definitions September 26 – Tagging pages for problems September 27 – What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle September 28 – Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub September 29 – Topic lists September 30 – Interwiki links and shortcuts October 1 – How to display the Tip of the day on your user page October 2 – Wikimedia-wide issues October 3 – Editcountitis October 4 – Category tips October 5 – Avoid trademarks October 6 – Wikipedia-specific searching with Google October 7 – Please sign your name on talk pages October 8 – User scripts October 9 – Linking articles: the internal link October 10 – How to find legal photographs and graphics October 11 – Keep track of your questions October 12 – How to transclude a page into the page you are editing October 13 – Why have lists when there are categories? October 14 – Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox October 15 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts October 16 – Power tool: Navigation Popups October 17 – Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser October 18 – Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other October 19 – Translating content October 20 – The five pillars October 21 – Using Special:MyPage to make private links October 22 – Double click editing October 23 – Be neutral, like Wikipedia October 24 – Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces October 25 – How to see a list of the pages in a namespace October 26 – A plain & simple introduction October 27 – Basic copyediting October 28 – S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A October 29 – How to enhance Recent changes October 30 – Namespace entry points October 31 – How to catch admin attention fast November 1 – Flashback to Wikipedia's past November 2 – Report problems on noticeboards November 3 – Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles November 4 – Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog November 5 – Wikimedia links and shortcuts November 6 – Advanced signatures November 7 – Be neutral when editing Wikipedia November 8 – Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis November 9 – "Where do I begin?" November 10 – Editing articles for web accessibility November 11 – The Wikipedia Curriculum November 12 – Giving editor awards November 13 – Spoken Wikipedia November 14 – Mediation November 15 – Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia... November 16 – How to make links to disambiguation pages appear orange to you November 17 – Fansites, forums, & other web page articles November 18 – How to provide a Google search in a link November 19 – User Sub Pages November 20 – A comprehensive index for editors November 21 – Welcome to Wikipedia! November 22 – Making the editbox more visually pleasing November 23 – Permission requests November 24 – Lead Section Size November 25 – Try to see it my way! November 26 – Pick from a list of template parameter choices November 27 – World of fiction November 28 – Same titles, different meanings November 29 – Brilliant pictures November 30 – Undoing edits December 1 – No copies of primary sources December 2 – Dates in Wikipedia articles December 3 – Find stubs and expand them December 4 – How to look at the changes to an article December 5 – How to customize your signature December 6 – When to use external links December 7 – How to adjust the height of your edit window December 8 – How to add a picture to an article December 9 – How to skip scrolling and clicking December 10 – Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette December 11 – Section editing December 12 – What writing style to use December 13 – Where to write about current events December 14 – Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts December 15 – Advice for parents December 16 – Automating tasks on Wikipedia December 17 – Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help... December 18 – Accuracy, quality and peer review December 19 – What can be included in Wikipedia? December 20 – Freedom of speech and profanity December 21 – Cannot find what you are looking for? December 22 – Why create an account? December 23 – Your user page December 24 – Wikimedia has mailing lists December 25 – Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences December 26 – Watching for changes December 27 – If you have privileged access to web pages... December 28 – Help test the MediaWiki software December 29 – Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins December 30 – Come visit the Teahouse December 31 – Not everything that is true is verifiable

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Alphabetical list of tips

See also: Chronological list of tips

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List of tips by order of name

This is the tip scheduling queue arranged alphabetically. The TOTD system operates on the "yearless year" approach, in which each tip's page is automatically displayed year after year. There is also a chronological list of these tips. Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it hasn't grown out of date or obsolete! Please help. For questions, comments, or to submit a new tip please go to this Project's Talk page. A better wiki editor: WikEd – June 23 A comprehensive index for editors – November 20 A plain & simple introduction – October 26 A self-guided tutorial – January 13 Abbreviating edit summaries – August 9 Accuracy, quality and peer review – December 18 Acronyms and initialisms – August 13 Advanced signatures – November 6 Advice for parents – December 15 Alphabetical list of articles – June 19 Another way to read or share Wikipedia: Books. – July 29 Another way to search Wikipedia with Google – February 11 Archives for lengthy pages – January 15 Are you jealous of others' user pages? – April 17 Are you lost? – March 13 Are your hands full? (Use search box as a small but convenient clipboard) – January 3 Article banner templates – January 16 Article banner templates – July 16 Article construction stages – September 7 Article deletion process – September 11 Article development – January 2 Article quality assessments – January 14 Article size – August 17 Articles about notable books – February 6 Articles for Creation (AFC) process – August 4 Ask for help at Wikipedia's Help Desk – January 25 Ask intelligent questions – June 16 Ask intelligent questions – June 28 Ask intelligent questions – March 28 Automatic edit summary reminder – April 7 Automatic page loader. – February 1 Automating tasks on Wikipedia – December 16 Avoid trademarks – October 5 Avoid using neologisms – July 9 Avoiding common mistakes – January 12 Band articles – July 4 Basic copyediting – October 27 Be forgiving to new users – July 15 Be neutral when editing Wikipedia – November 7 Be neutral, like Wikipedia – October 23 Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups – March 3 Becoming an Administrator – March 9 Beware of instruction creep – June 17 Biographies – February 21 Biography articles needing attention – September 10 Breaking the 500-edit limit in "View History" – March 18 Brilliant pictures – November 29 Browsing Mobile Wikipedia on your big screen – May 5 Calendar date display for your user pages – February 24 Cannot find what you are looking for? – December 21 Captions – January 11 Category tips – October 4 Centralizing project discussion – May 14 Change text size quickly (with Ctrl-mouse wheel) – June 24 Check your work before you save, using Preview – May 26 Citation Requests – July 1 Cite the source on all image uploads – June 9 Cite your sources – April 10 Collaborations – April 8 Come visit the Teahouse – December 30 CopyPatrol tool – September 15 Copyright Cleanup – September 13 Copyrights? Copyleft – April 15 Counting your edits – September 23 Create a user account – April 14 Create links faster using tricks – March 19 Custom signatures – June 30 Customize appearance of dates – August 1 Dates in Wikipedia articles – December 2 Designing your user page – June 10 Difference between wikiprojects and portals? – September 18 Digital audio support – January 9 Displaying one page within another = Transclusion – May 8 Displaying tips on your user page Note. Do not change this tip. It is a linked tip on displaying tips! :-) – July 21 Do not believe everything you read – April 1 Do not use forums or emails as sources – April 6 Double click editing – October 22 Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowser – April 11 Editcountitis – October 3 Editing articles for web accessibility – November 10 Editing projects for school and university classes – February 26 Explaining Wiki markup to other users – August 15 Explore Wikipedia's contents – April 20 External links – September 22 Fansites, forums, & other web page articles – November 17 Featured article candidates – April 21 Featured content – May 21 Featured world of Wikipedia – September 16 Find articles for cleanup – January 31 Find stubs and expand them – December 3 Find uncategorized articles – August 2 Fix double redirects – June 18 Fixing bare URLs to prevent link rot – February 3 Flashback to Wikipedia's past – November 1 Footnotes – May 16 Formatting disambiguation pages – May 20 Forums and emails are not acceptable sources – July 24 Freedom of speech and profanity – December 20 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – September 12 General topics lists – May 10 Getting a subpage listing – April 28 Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat) – February 5 Getting your edit count – March 23 Giving editor awards – November 12 Go to the right desk – May 24 Good article nominations – January 21 Good article reassessment – September 9 Google search link – August 30 Graphics Lab – September 19 Guestbooks – September 4 Help for new contributors – February 23 Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog – November 4 Help test the MediaWiki software – December 28 Help Wikipedia help you – April 12 Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click – September 17 How do you pronounce that? – September 21 How does Wikipedia stack up? – August 18 How popular is Wikipedia? – August 29 How reliable is Wikipedia? – August 21 How to add a picture to an article – December 8 How to add an article to a category – August 6 How to add hidden editor notes in an article – May 17 How to adjust the height of your edit window – December 7 How to catch admin attention fast – March 16 How to catch admin attention fast – October 31 How to change your username – April 18 How to create a category – August 10 How to create a link to another article – March 5 How to create a new page – March 14 How to create a subcategory – August 16 How to create reusable boilerplate – August 12 How to customize your signature – December 5 How to display the Tip of the day on your user page – October 1 How to easily recall a username – January 18 How to enable right-click section editing – February 20 How to enhance Recent changes – October 29 How to find legal photographs and graphics – October 10 How to fix unsigned comments – April 5 How to get a list of a page's subpages – March 8 How to improve Wikipedia's reliability – January 5 How to insert a picture into an article – June 13 How to link to a category without categorizing the page – July 31 How to link to a category – August 23 How to link to a section of an article – August 26 How to link to word definitions – September 25 How to look at the changes to an article – December 4 How to make a table on a page – July 20 How to make links look the way you want – March 11 How to make links to articles – April 30 How to make your watchlist easier to read – January 4 How to move/rename a page – April 23 How to plant a CategoryTree! – March 1 How to provide a Google search in a link – November 18 How to provide a link to a specific Google Search – February 7 How to reduce or enlarge font sizes – January 22 How to request help on your Talk page – January 28 How to review user contributions – May 18 How to search Wikipedia with Google – August 11 How to see a list of the pages in a namespace – October 25 How to send a message to other editors – January 6 How to skip scrolling and clicking – December 9 How to start a new article – June 7 How to transclude a page into the page you are editing – October 12 How to turn links to disambiguation pages orange – November 16 How to turn redirects green – March 17 How to use red links – July 12 How to use Wikipedia offline: xowa – September 5 How to watch for pages that do not exist yet – August 8 If you have privileged access to web pages... – December 27 Image processing tools – January 7 In conflicts, reach consensus – August 5 Install your first javascript – September 3 Interwiki links and shortcuts – September 30 Introduction to navigating Wikipedia – January 10 Introduction to tables – February 12 Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning) – January 29 Join a WikiProject. – February 4 Join the fight against vandalism – July 17 Join the Recent Changes Patrol! – August 27 Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift+Alt+F – July 11 Keep track of your questions – October 11 Keyboard shortcuts – April 26 Lead Section Size – November 24 Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts – December 14 Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt: – March 25 Linking articles: the internal link – October 9 Linking to a section of an article – May 6 Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis – November 8 List building – May 12 List the things to do for an article – July 5 Look before you leap – June 6 Love thy neighbor – July 2 Making the editbox more visually pleasing – November 22 Main page - Did you know – May 30 Main page - Did you know – September 24 Mediation – November 14 Mobile view sidebar from the desktop – February 17 Motto of the day... – April 13 My link disappeared! – August 31 Namespace entry points – October 30 Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts – March 21 Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts – October 15 Navigation popups – June 12 No copies of primary sources – December 1 Not everything that is true is verifiable – December 31 Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?) – April 27 Page history – June 2 Permission requests – November 23 Pick from a list of template parameter choices – November 26 Placing category tags – June 1 Placing "External links" sections – May 29 Placing interlanguage links – June 4 Placing templates – May 28 Please fill-in edit summaries – March 7 Please read department instructions – June 21 Please return the favor – May 25 Please sign your name on talk pages – February 29 Please sign your name on talk pages – March 12 Please sign your name on talk pages – October 7 Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box – February 9 Portals – June 25 Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board – July 3 Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser – October 17 Power tool: Navigation Popups – October 16 Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser – August 24 Pretty tables – June 27 Preview tomorrow's Featured Article – January 19 Prove it with ProveIt – May 3 Redirect synonymous topic names – February 2 Redirects – May 15 Referencing for beginners – February 10 Report problems on noticeboards – November 2 Running MediaWiki on your own computer – March 20 S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A – October 28 Same titles, different meanings – November 28 Screen readers for accessibility – February 25 Screenshots – June 20 Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB – January 24 Search and replace while editing an article. – January 23 Search box bookmarklet for your browser – April 9 Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex) – March 22 Section edit button – June 15 Section editing – December 11 Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone – April 29 Short link pipe trick – July 18 Shortcut for minor edit box – February 13 Shortcuts – May 31 Sister projects & interwiki linking – May 7 Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other – October 18 Sorting entries in the categories – June 5 Souping up your Smartphone editing of Wikipedia – January 26 Speed up your learning curve... – August 19 Spell Checkers – September 2 Spoken Wikipedia – November 13 Spreading the WikiLove – February 14 Stop by the Reference Desk – April 3 Subject bar template – September 6 SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit – March 26 Super-customize your account with gadgets – April 25 Supercharge your browser – March 4 Table of contents – May 22 Tag your image uploads – June 3 Tagging pages for problems – September 26 Talking to Wikipedians – June 8 Templates for Age and Dates – February 15 Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia – July 19 Test-drive your edits using a sandbox – March 2 Thanks - send a notification – February 16 The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away – July 10 The five pillars – October 20 The lead section – August 3 The semi-automated article peer-reviewer – January 27 The three revert rule – July 8 The Wikipedia Adventure! – April 24 The Wikipedia Curriculum – November 11 Time-saving links II – May 4 Time-saving links: the "pipe trick" – May 2 Title searches – August 7 To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches – May 1 To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area... – August 14 Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most – March 31 Topic lists – September 29 Transclusion caveat – May 23 Transclusion vs. Substitution – March 24 Translating content – October 19 Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins – December 29 Try to see it my way! – November 25 Undoing edits – November 30 Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences – December 25 Uploading Free Images – April 16 Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles – March 6 Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia – May 19 Use your watchlist – June 11 User scripts examples – January 20 User scripts – October 8 User Sub Pages – November 19 Userboxes – May 11 Using Math – July 14 Using Special:MyPage to make private links – October 21 Using templates – May 9 Using the Authority control template – February 18 Visit the Village Pump for technical issues – April 2 Watching for changes – December 26 Welcome to Wikipedia! – November 21 Welcoming Committee – July 7 What are dummy edits good for? – January 8 What are page history diffs? – January 30 What are templates used for? – June 26 What can be included in Wikipedia? – December 19 What did they say? (Wikijargon) – July 22 What is a Talk page? – January 17 What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – September 27 What is Page curation? – February 27 What the world knows about us – August 20 What writing style to use – December 12 When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search – August 22 When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject? – May 13 When not to use links – June 22 When to use external links – December 6 When to use subpages – February 19 Where did that fact come from?! – August 28 "Where do I begin?" – November 9 Where on the page to put images – May 27 Where to begin? – January 1 Where to look for help – August 25 Where to post requests – March 10 Where to upload images and media files – April 4 Where to write about current events – December 13 Why create an account? – December 22 Why have lists when there are categories? – October 13 Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia... – November 15 Wikimedia has mailing lists – December 24 Wikimedia links and shortcuts – November 5 Wikimedia-wide issues – October 2 Wikipedia banners and buttons – February 22 Wikipedia Database reports – September 14 Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette – December 10 Wikipedia for your mobile... – June 29 Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces – October 24 Wikipedia in brief – July 25 Wikipedia industrial-powered search – July 23 Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help... – December 17 Wikipedia Search box - advanced – September 8 Wikipedia Search box - basic – February 8 Wikipedia search box focus – April 22 Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox – October 14 Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox – September 20 Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles – November 3 Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips – July 26 Wikipedia's Manual of Style – July 6 Wikipedia's Quick directory – July 30 Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips – July 27 Wikipedia's top ten essential tips – September 1 Wikipedia's top ten power tips – March 15 Wikipedia-specific searching with Google – October 6 Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox – June 14 Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement – July 13 Work faster with keyboard shortcuts – March 27 Working on the Main page – I - March 29 Working on the Main Page – II - March 30 World of fiction – November 27 Writing articles for The Signpost – February 28 Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub – September 28 Your user page – December 23 Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page – July 28

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Tip templates

This is the list of tip display templates (also posted at Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 21). Here is a gallery of display templates for you to view the display templates listed below:

• {{totd}} – the main userspace version of the tip of the day template, with border, centered in the middle of the page. Complete with inspirational light bulb.
  • {{totd b}} – a more compact version of the above template. Useful for columns.
• {{totd3}} – a purple box version, useful for displaying the tip in columns.
• {{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. If it doesn't update, try clearing your browser cache.
• {{totd-tomorrow}} – this 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.
• {{tip of the day}} – the borderless version, with lightbulb.
• {{tip of the day with h3 heading}} – the tip in heading/paragraph format (No light bulb).
• {{totd2}} – the borderless version used on Wikipedia's Help page (which already has its own borders). (No lightbulb).
• {{totd CP}} – like the help page version, but with a box & light bulb. Spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in.
• {{totd-static}} –  like the totd version but the date is static. You have to manually change the date. Good for testing purposes.

Random tip

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The following template {{Totd-random}} is for Wikipedians who can't wait until tomorrow for their next tip! It presents a random tip each time you reload the page it is presented on:

Tip of the moment... World of fiction Our culture is full of fiction, entire fictional universes inhabited by millions of fictional characters. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that seeks to describe facts and opinions about reality. When writing about fiction, please be sure to establish the necessary context for the reader, so that it is clear that the article describes a fictional entity from a specific work. It is also often a good idea to combine many minor fictional characters or places into a single article about the fictional realm in question, especially when there is only a very limited amount that could be said about each of them. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: WP:Check your fiction   WP:Avoid writing "in universe"   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

Tomorrow's tip

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This template {{Totd-tomorrow}} is for monitoring the tip queue one day in advance for any editing needs:

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... Where to write about current events The current events portal is used to describe current world-wide events of note, not just in politics, but also in science, culture, technology, sports, entertainment and many other areas. The information in question should be added to any relevant articles as well. However, Wikipedia does not offer first-hand news reports on breaking stories (use Wikinews for that). Instead, the in the news section on our Main Page mentions and links to entries of timely interest that are (and this is crucial) nonetheless encyclopedia articles that have been updated to reflect an important current event. Non-Administrators can suggest items or changes to this Main Page section by editing the candidates page, from which administrators will update the live template from time to time. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Portal:Current events   Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}

Day-after-next's tip

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This template {{Totd-day-after-next}} is for monitoring the tip queue two days in advance to make sure the tip is proofread before it goes live anywhere in the world:

Please proofread the daily tip before it goes "live"... It's displayed below two days early, so it can be error-checked and made ready-to-display for all time zones. 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 Day-after-next's tip of the day... Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts Do you know any languages other than English? If so, you also can contribute to the Wikipedia in those languages, or translate articles from that Wikipedia into the English Wikipedia. Do not forget to include an interlanguage link when you translate a new article. To help coordinate with other language Wikipedias, you can join the Wikimedia Embassy. Also, check out how other languages are doing with our multilingual statistics. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-day-after-next}}

Note: with {{totd-tomorrow}}, it isn't tomorrow for all time zones, and so it may have already gone live for part of the world before you've edited it.

See also

• Wikipedia:Tips – the tip library arranged by subject.
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia tipster – about the people that write the tips
• Wikipedia:Department directory – the closest thing to a site map of the Wikipedia namespace.
• Wikipedia:Shortcuts – another map of the Wikipedia namespace.

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