How to link to a category without categorizing the page
Category links don't work like other links. Instead, they go invisible and put the page in the category specified. For example, if you write a message that says I think [[Category:Living people]] would be appropriate", it will appear as "I think would be appropriate" and the talk page you wrote the message on will be added to the Living people category. The link disappeared!
Sometimes it is useful to provide links to categories, such for listing categories on portals, or when you are discussing categories.
To make category links work like normal links, add a colon after the opening brackets. Then "I think [[:Category:Living people]] would be appropriate", appears as "I think
Category:Living people would be appropriate".
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.
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:
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.
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.
{{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
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:
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.
Rule of thumb: If a topic deserves a heading or subheading, then it deserves short mention in the lead.
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:
Under the "Date and time" tab in
Special:Preferences, you may specify the format in which you view dates. This applies primarily to dates on your watchlist and other lists of changes.
It also affects dates in Wikipedia articles and other pages, but only if the day, month and year are
wikified (e.g. [[May 14]], [[2007]]). Current recommended editing style is not to wikify dates for this purpose—most years and dates appearing in articles should not be wikilinked, and their format will therefore not be customized.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use{{totd-tomorrow}}
Day-after-next's tip
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.
Articles created without a category should be tagged with a maintenance tag. Use the {{
Uncategorized}} tag to put articles in a maintenance category. Optionally add a date parameter like {{Uncategorized|date=July 2024}} to put articles in by-date maintenance categories.
Such tagged articles are found at Uncategorized pages. You can try to categorize articles yourself. One useful technique is to follow links in the article to other similar articles and see how they are categorized, so you know what to copy.
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.
How to link to a category without categorizing the page
Category links don't work like other links. Instead, they go invisible and put the page in the category specified. For example, if you write a message that says I think [[Category:Living people]] would be appropriate", it will appear as "I think would be appropriate" and the talk page you wrote the message on will be added to the Living people category. The link disappeared!
Sometimes it is useful to provide links to categories, such for listing categories on portals, or when you are discussing categories.
To make category links work like normal links, add a colon after the opening brackets. Then "I think [[:Category:Living people]] would be appropriate", appears as "I think
Category:Living people would be appropriate".
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.
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:
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.
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.
{{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
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:
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.
Rule of thumb: If a topic deserves a heading or subheading, then it deserves short mention in the lead.
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:
Under the "Date and time" tab in
Special:Preferences, you may specify the format in which you view dates. This applies primarily to dates on your watchlist and other lists of changes.
It also affects dates in Wikipedia articles and other pages, but only if the day, month and year are
wikified (e.g. [[May 14]], [[2007]]). Current recommended editing style is not to wikify dates for this purpose—most years and dates appearing in articles should not be wikilinked, and their format will therefore not be customized.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use{{totd-tomorrow}}
Day-after-next's tip
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.
Articles created without a category should be tagged with a maintenance tag. Use the {{
Uncategorized}} tag to put articles in a maintenance category. Optionally add a date parameter like {{Uncategorized|date=July 2024}} to put articles in by-date maintenance categories.
Such tagged articles are found at Uncategorized pages. You can try to categorize articles yourself. One useful technique is to follow links in the article to other similar articles and see how they are categorized, so you know what to copy.
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.