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This is the tip of the day project, providing useful advice daily on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. It is responsible for maintaining the tip of the day templates, and the collection of tips that are displayed by those templates.
For the complete schedule of tips, see below .
See also Wikipedia:Tips , the complete library of tips arranged by subject.
Displaying tips on your user pages [ edit ]
To add one of the many versions of the tip of the day template to your user page, Click here .
Participating... [ edit ]
To participate in developing, proofreading, and scheduling new tips, see the instructions on the talk page .
Tip of the day scheduling queue [ edit ]
List of tips
This is the tip scheduling queue. The TOTD system operates on the "yearless year" approach, in which each tip's page is automatically displayed year after year.
Each tip needs to be proofread before its upcoming presentation date arrives, to ensure that it hasn't grown out of date or obsolete!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.
Now, without further ado, here are Wikipedia's daily tips, by presentation date:
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 1 – Where to begin?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 2 – Article development
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 3 – Are your hands full? (Use search box as a small but convenient clipboard)
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 4 – How to make your watchlist easier to read
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 5 – How to improve Wikipedia's reliability
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 6 – How to send a message to other editors
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 7 – Image processing tools
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 8 – Please sign your name on talk pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 9 – Digital audio editors
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 10 – WikiDefcon (vandalism level indicator)
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 11 – Captions
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 12 – Avoiding common mistakes
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 13 – A self-guided tutorial
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 14 – Article quality assessments
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 15 – Archives for lengthy pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 16 – Searching Wikipedia from any website
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 17 – Join the fight against vandalism
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 18 – Short link pipe trick
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 19 – Preview tomorrow's featured article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 20 – User scripts examples
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 21 – Good article nominations
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 22 – What did he say? (Wikijargon )
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 23 – Search and replace while editing an article.
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 24 – Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 25 – Ask for help at Wikipedia's Help Desk
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 26 – Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 27 – Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 28 – Change text size quickly (with Ctrl-mouse wheel)
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 29 – Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning).
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 30 – Create links faster
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/January 31 – Find articles for cleanup
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 1 – Automatic page loader.
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 2 – Redirect synonymous topic names
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 3 – The lead section
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 4 – Join a WikiProject.
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 5 – In conflicts, reach consensus
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 6 – How to add an article to a category
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 7 – How to provide a link to a specific Google Search
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 8 – How to watch for pages that don't exist yet
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 9 – Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 10 – How to create a category
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 11 – Another way to search Wikipedia with Google
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 12 – How to create reusable boilerplates
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 13 – Acronyms and initialisms
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 14 – To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 15 – Explaining Wiki markup to other users
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 16 – How to create a subcategory
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 17 – How to plant a CategoryTree!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 18 – Wikipedia-specific searching with Google
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 19 – When to use subpages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 20 – What the world knows about us
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 21 – How reliable is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 22 – When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 23 – How to link to a category
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 24 – Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 25 – Are you looking for help?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 26 – How to link to a section of an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 27 – Join the Recent Changes Patrol!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 28 – Where did that fact come from?!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/February 29 – Please sign your name on talk pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 1 – Wikipedia's top ten essential tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 2 – How to turn redirects green
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 3 – Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 4 – Supercharge your browser
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 5 – How to create a link to another article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 6 – Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 7 – Please fill-in edit summaries
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 8 – How to get a list of a page's subpages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 9 – Becoming an Administrator
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 10 – Where to post requests
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 11 – How to make links look the way you want
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 12 – Please sign your name on talk pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 13 – Are you lost?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 14 – How to create a new page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 15 – Wikipedia's top ten power tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 16 – Do you need administrator assistance?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 17 – Test-drive your edits using a sandbox
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 18 – Cite your sources
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 19 – Link tricks
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 20 – Running MediaWiki on your own computer
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 21 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 22 – Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 23 – Getting your edit count
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 24 – Transclusion vs. Substitution
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 25 – Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt:
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 26 – SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 27 – Work faster with keyboard shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 28 – Time-saving links: the pipe trick
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 29 – Ask intelligent questions
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 30 – Working on the Main page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 31 – Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 1 – Don't believe everything you read
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 2 – Visit the Village Pump for technical issues
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 3 – Stop by the Reference Desk
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 4 – Where to upload images and media files
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 5 – How to fix unsigned comments
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 6 – Don't use forums or emails as sources
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 7 – Automatic edit summary reminder
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 8 – Collaborations
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 9 – Search box bookmarklet for your browser
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 10 – Cite your sources
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 11 – Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowser
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 12 – Help Wikipedia help you
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 13 – Motto of the day...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 14 – Create a user account
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 15 – Copyrights? Copyleft
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 16 – Uploading Free Images
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 17 – A fun way to pick pages to edit
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 18 – How to change your username
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 19 – Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 20 – Explore Wikipedia's contents
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 21 – Featured article candidates
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 22 – Wikipedia search box focus
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 23 – How to move/rename a page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 24 – The Wikipedia Adventure!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 25 – Super-customize your account with gadgets
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 26 – Keyboard shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 27 – Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?)
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 28 – Getting a subpage listing
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 29 – How to help prepare the Main page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 30 – How to make links to articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 1 – To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 2 – Time-saving links: the "pipe trick"
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 3 – Prove it with ProveIt
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 4 – Time-saving links II
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 5 – Browsing Mobile Wikipedia on your big screen
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 6 – Linking to a section of an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 7 – Sister projects & interwiki linking
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 8 – Displaying one page within another = Transclusion
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 9 – Using templates
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 10 – General topics lists
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 11 – Userboxes
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 12 – List building
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 13 – When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 14 – Centralizing project discussion
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 15 – Redirects
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 16 – Footnotes
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 17 – How to add hidden editor notes in an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 18 – How to review user contributions
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 19 – Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 20 – Formatting disambiguation pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 21 – Featured content
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 22 – Table of contents
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 23 – Transclusion caveat
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 24 – Go to the right desk
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 25 – Please return the favor
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 26 – Check your work before you save, using Preview
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 27 – Where on the page to put images
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 28 – Placing templates
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 29 – Placing "External links" sections
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 30 – Working on the Main Page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 31 – Shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 1 – Placing category tags
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 2 – Page history
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 3 – Tag your image uploads
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 4 – Placing interlanguage links
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 5 – Sorting entries in the categories
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 6 – Look before you leap
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 7 – How to start a new article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 8 – Talking to Wikipedians
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 9 – Cite the source on all image uploads
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 10 – Preventing markup glitches
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 11 – Use your watchlist
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 12 – Navigation popups
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 13 – How to insert a picture into an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 14 – Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 15 – Section edit button
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 16 – Ask intelligent questions
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 17 – Beware of instruction creep
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 18 – Fix double redirects
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 19 – Alphabetical list of articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 20 – Screenshots
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 21 – Please read department instructions
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 22 – When not to use links
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 23 – A better wiki editor: WikEd
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 24 – Change text size easily when reading a page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 25 – Portals
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 26 – What are templates used for?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 27 – Pretty tables
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 28 – How to help prepare the Main page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 29 – Wikipedia for your mobile...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/June 30 – Custom signatures
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 1 – Citation Requests
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 2 – Love thy neighbor
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 3 – Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 4 – Band articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 5 – List the things to do for an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 6 – Navigate fast using shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 7 – Welcoming Committee
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 8 – The three revert rule
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 9 – Avoid using neologisms
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 10 – The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 11 – Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift +Alt +F
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 12 – How to use red links
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 13 – Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 14 – Using Math
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 15 – Be forgiving to new users
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 16 – Search Wikipedia from any website
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 17 – Join the fight against vandalism
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 18 – Short link pipe trick
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 19 – Preview tomorrow's featured article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 20 – User scripts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 21 – Displaying tips on your userpage Note. Don't change this tip. It is a linked tip on displaying tips! :-)
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 22 – What did he say? (Wikijargon )
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 23 – Wikipedia industrial-powered search
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 24 – Forums and emails are not acceptable sources
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 25 – Working on the Main page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 26 – Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 27 – Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 28 – Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 29 – Another way to read or share Wikipedia: Books.
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 30 – Create links faster with link tricks
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 31 – How to link to a category without categorizing the page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 1 – Customize appearance of dates
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 2 – Find uncategorized articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 3 – The lead section
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 4 – Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 5 – In conflicts, reach consensus
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 6 – How to add an article to a category
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 7 – Title searches
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 8 – How to watch for pages that don't exist yet
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 9 – Abbreviating edit summaries
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 10 – How to create a category
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 11 – How to search Wikipedia with Google
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 12 – How to create reusable boilerplates
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 13 – Acronyms and initialisms
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 14 – To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 15 – Explaining Wiki markup to other users
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 16 – How to create a subcategory
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 17 – Please sign your name on talk pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 18 – How does Wikipedia stack up?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 19 – When to use subpages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 20 – What the world knows about us
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 21 – How reliable is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 22 – When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 23 – How to link to a category
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 24 – Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 25 – Where to look for help
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 26 – How to link to a section of an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 27 – Join the Recent Changes Patrol!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 28 – Where did that fact come from?!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 29 – How popular is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 30 – Google search link
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 31 – My link disappeared!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 1 – Wikipedia's top ten essential tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 2 – Spell Checkers
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 3 – Install your first javascript
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 4 – Supercharge your browser
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 5 – How to create a link to another article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 6 – Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 7 – Please fill-in edit summaries
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 8 – How to get a list of a page's subpages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 9 – Becoming an Administrator
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 10 – Where to post requests
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 11 – How to make links look the way you want
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 12 – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 13 – Are you lost?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 14 – How to create a new page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 15 – Wikipedia's top ten power tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 16 – Do you need administrator assistance?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 17 – Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 18 – Cite your sources
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 19 – Link tricks
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 20 – Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 21 – Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 22 – External links
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 23 – Counting your edits
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 24 – Transclusion vs. Substitution
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 25 – How to link to word definitions
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 26 – SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 27 – Work faster with keyboard shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 28 – Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 29 – Topic lists
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 30 – Interwiki links and shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 1 – How to display the Tip of the day on your user page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 2 – Wikimedia-wide issues
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 3 – Editcountitis
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 4 – Category tips
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 5 – Avoid trademarks
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 6 – Wikipedia-specific searching with Google
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 7 – Please sign your name on talk pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 8 – User scripts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 9 – Linking articles: the internal link
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 10 – How to find legal photographs and graphics
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 11 – Keep track of your questions
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 12 – How to transclude a page into the page you are editing
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 13 – Why have lists when there are categories?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 14 – Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 15 – Use Wikipedia shortcuts to navigate faster
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 16 – Power tool: Navigation Popups
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 17 – Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 18 – Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 19 – Speed up your learning curve...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 20 – The five pillars
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 21 – Using Special:MyPage to make private links
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 22 – Double click editing
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 23 – Be neutral, like Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 24 – Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 25 – How to see a list of the pages in a namespace
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 26 – A plain & simple introduction
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 27 – Basic copyediting
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 28 – S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 29 – How to enhance Recent changes
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 30 – Namespace entry points
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/October 31 – How to catch admin attention fast
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 1 – How to enable right-click section editing
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 2 – Report problems on noticeboards
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 3 – Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 4 – Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 5 – Wikimedia links and shortcuts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 6 – Advanced signatures
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 7 – Be neutral when editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 8 – Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 9 – "Where do I begin?"
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 10 – Editing articles for web accessibility
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 11 – The Wikipedia Curriculum
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 12 – Giving editor awards
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 13 – Spoken Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 14 – Mediation
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 15 – Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 16 – Google Toolbar Current Site Search Button
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 17 – Fansites, Forums, & other Webpage Articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 18 – How to provide a Google search in a link
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 19 – User Sub Pages
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 20 – A comprehensive index for editors
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 21 – Welcome to Wikipedia!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 22 – Making the editbox more visually pleasing
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 23 – Permission Requests
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 24 – Lead Section Size
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 25 – Try to see it my way!
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 26 – Pick from a list of template parameter choices
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 27 – World of fiction
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 28 – Same titles, different meanings
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 29 – Brilliant pictures
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/November 30 – Undoing edits
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 1 – No copies of primary sources
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 2 – Dates in Wikipedia articles
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 3 – Find stubs and expand them
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 4 – How to look at the changes to an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 5 – How to customize your signature
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 6 – When to use external links
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 7 – How to adjust the height of your edit window
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 8 – How to add a picture to an article
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 9 – How to skip scrolling and clicking
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 10 – Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 11 – Section editing
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 12 – What writing style to use
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 13 – Where to write about current events
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 14 – Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 15 – Advice for parents
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 16 – Automating tasks on Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 17 – Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 18 – Accuracy, quality and peer review
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 19 – What can be included in Wikipedia?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 20 – Freedom of speech and profanity
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 21 – Can't find what you are looking for?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 22 – Why create an account?
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 23 – Your user page
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 24 – Wikimedia has mailing lists
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 25 – Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 26 – Watching for changes
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 27 – If you have privileged access to web pages...
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 28 – Help test the MediaWiki software
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 29 – Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 30 – Come visit the Teahouse
Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 31 – Not everything that's true is verifiable
Tip templates [ edit ]
This is the list of tip templates (also posted at Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 21 ).
{{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.
{{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 lightbulb).
{{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 & lightbulb. Spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in.
Random tip [ edit ]
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 load the page it is presented on:
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Portals
What are portals? They are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. Very often, they are maintained by one or more WikiProjects on many topics .
Portals have a special namespace (Portal:). The idea of a portal is to help readers and/or editors navigate their way through Wikipedia topic areas through pages similar to the Main Page . In essence, portals are useful entry-points to Wikipedia content.
There is a special kind of portal, called featured portals . The community reaches a consensus that these portals are useful, attractive, and well-maintained. For details on featured portals, you can read more at "What is a featured portal?"
Prior tip - Next tip
To add this template to your user page, use {{Totd-random}} .
Become a Wikipedia tipster - Tips library, by subject
Tomorrow's tip [ edit ]
This template {{Totd-tomorrow }} is for monitoring the tip queue one day in advance for any editing needs:
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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 Wikipedia Talk:Tip of the day .
Tomorrow's tip of the day ...
Lead Section Size
The lead section of a Wikipedia article is the section before the first heading . The table of contents, if displayed, generally appears between the lead section and the first subheading.
The lead section should contain up to four paragraphs, depending on the length of the article, and should provide a preview of the main points the article will make, summarizing the primary reasons the subject matter is interesting or notable. The lead should be capable of standing alone as a concise overview of the article, should be written in a clear and accessible style, should be carefully sourced like the rest of the text, and should encourage the reader to want to read more. The following table has some general guidelines for the length of the lead section:
< 15,000 characters
medium size
> 30,000 characters
one or two paragraphs
two or three paragraphs
three or four paragraphs
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