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This is the coordination page for the Tip of the day department.
See Tip of the day scheduling queue for the complete schedule of tips.
See Wikipedia:Tips for the complete library of tips arranged by subject.
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Welcome! 
The tip of the day (or TOTD) is a helpful tip on how to use or edit Wikipedia. It is displayed by template on prominent help and community pages (and many user pages), presenting a different tip each day. The template displays the tip page named for the current date. The year is left off of the page titles, so that the same collection of tips redisplays automatically year after year.
Our purpose here is to keep the tips relevant. This means keeping tip pages up-to-date, and replacing tips with new ones when they become obsolete. In addition to this, we are constantly on the lookout for better tips to improve the overall collection, replacing not-as-useful tips with more useful ones.
As you probably guessed, that means there are 366 tip pages that need to be maintained. We welcome your help in maintaining and adding tips.
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How you can help
To suggest a new tip or report a problem with a tip, create a new section at the very bottom of this Talk page to let us know. Feel free to make corrections directly to tip pages, and please let us know at the bottom of this page when you do. Other ideas and comments are also welcome.
To view and check the TOTD a day before it goes live, place {{totd-tomorrow}} on your user Talk page (including the four curly braces).
If you would like to join this department, please add yourself to the participants list below.
Invitation
The following has been transcluded from the invitation subpage.
Invitation to the Tip of the day WikiProject
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How to invite
To invite another editor to contribute to Tip of the day, copy and paste {{subst:Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Invitation}} into a new section on their talk page. Feel free to include your own personal message as well. Cheers!
Participants
There is a bot automatically generated list of active editors.
If you'd like to be kept up-to-date on what is going on with TOTD, and receive task assignments, please add your name below:
- JoeHebda (talk)
- The Transhumanist
- Sachinmtk Hope for life. 09:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC) (inactive on WP since May 2015)
- Learnerktm
- blackhat999
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}- Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk)
- Eddie Blick 10:57, 2 May 2017
- Ammarpad (talk) 16:01, 18 October 2017
- Thinker78 (talk) 05:32, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
- Nick Moyes (talk) 20:06, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
- ThatOneWolf (talk|contribs) 21:42, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Welcome message
Here is a plain Welcome message for posting to new participant's talk page. To post the message copy and paste this:{{totd plain welcome}} (including the four curly braces).
Remember to sign the message with your four tilde signature: ~~~~
| * Welcome! Thank you for your recent edits for the Wikipedia Tip of the day and for joining the Tip of the day department. |
Instructions
- New tips (or major rewrites) should be proposed via a New section at the very bottom of this Talk page. Ping other editors if possible. Wait for comments and consensus.
- Minor updates and copy-edits to existing tips can be done directly at that tip's RAW template found via the Tip of the day scheduling queue.
- The 366 slots (one for each day of the yearless calendar, including February 29 for leap year) are set up on Wikipedia:Tip of the day so whenever any new tip is added, or an obsolete tip is removed, one of the 366 days needs to be chosen. Put the new tip in a slot that is already duplicated in another slot (e.g.- the same tip is repeated for January 17 and July 17). Replace the duplicate slot that is coming up the soonest using the general workflow checklist below.
General workflow checklist to add a new tip to replace an existing tip
- Directly place the updated (Done) tip into the Tip of the day scheduling queue at one of the 366 subpages by editing the tip.
- Update the tip's description at:
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day#Chronological list of tips.
- WP:ALPHATIP – Alphabetical list of tips page.
- Wikipedia:Tips, the complete library of tips arranged by subject (pipe the description, link the date to the piped description per the other listings).
- If you add a tip you may need to remove a tip too. Check for duplicates.
- Update Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day#Tip library maintenance below. You will also need to remove the added date from other months where it is duplicated- e.g.- if you add a tip in place of one in January and it is duplicated in July you will need to remove the January reference in the July maintenance listing.
How to prevent new tip archiving
Use Bump which is a wrapper for the invisible template {{do not archive until}} that is used to prevent bots archiving a discussion thread.
It produces a visible message that the thread has been bumped, and how long for (defaults to 30 days), if a value of days has been specified. It will auto-sign the notification.
<nowiki>{{subst:Bump}}</nowiki> produces:
<nowiki>{{subst:Bump|30}}</nowiki> produces:
Always use the subst prefix, and place under the section title.
Tip library maintenance
As of August 1, 2016, the count of tips (from the scheduling queue) contained within the Tip library:
From the above list, it appears that there are not 366 unique individual tips, which opens the door for new tips to be added to the schedule as well as removal of duplicate tips.
To keep the Tip library in step with the scheduling queue, additional editors may help by reviewing the Tip library and performing cleanup. When each month is completed, please add the {{Done}} template to that month's line in the list above.
Until we reach 366 tips, new tips can be placed into the TOTD Schedule Queue by replacing a duplicate entry from the monthly maintenance lists below.
January maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| January 1 | Where to begin? | January 1 |
| January 2 | Article development | January 2 |
| January 3 | Are your hands full? (Use search box as a small but convenient clipboard) | January 3 |
| January 4 | How to make your watchlist easier to read | January 4 |
| January 5 | How to improve Wikipedia's reliability | January 5 |
| January 6 | How to send a message to other editors | January 6 |
| January 7 | Image processing tools | January 7 |
| January 8 | What are dummy edits good for? | January 8 |
| January 9 | Digital audio editors | January 9 |
| January 10 | Introduction to navigating Wikipedia | January 10 |
| January 11 | Captions | January 11 |
| January 12 | Avoiding common mistakes | January 12 |
| January 13 | A self-guided tutorial | January 13 |
| January 14 | Article quality assessments | January 14 |
| January 15 | Archives for lengthy pages | January 15 |
| January 16 | Article banner templates | January 16 |
| January 17 | What is a Talk page? | January 17 |
| January 18 | How to easily recall a username | January 18 |
| January 19 April 19 | Preview tomorrow's Featured Article Preview tomorrow's Featured Article | January 19 |
| January 20 | User scripts examples | January 20 |
| January 21 | Good article nominations | January 21 |
| January 22 | Using intuitively named templates to reduce or enlarge font sizes | January 22 |
| January 23 | Search and replace while editing an article. | January 23 |
| January 24 | Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB | January 24 |
| January 25 | Ask for help at Wikipedia's Help Desk | January 25 |
| January 26 | Souping up your Smartphone editing of Wikipedia | January 26 |
| January 27 | The semi-automated article peer-reviewer | January 27 |
| January 28 | How to request help on your Talk page | January 28 |
| January 29 | Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning) | January 29 |
| January 30 | What are page history diffs? | January 30 |
| January 31 | Find articles for cleanup | January 31 |
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February maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| February 1 | Automatic page loader. | February 1 |
| February 2 | Redirect synonymous topic names | February 2 |
| February 3 | Fixing bare URLs to prevent link rot | February 3 |
| February 4 | Join a WikiProject. | February 4 |
| February 5 | Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat) | February 5 |
| February 6 | Articles about books | February 6 |
| February 7 | How to provide a link to a specific Google Search | February 7 |
| February 8 | Wikipedia Search box – basic | February 8 |
| February 9 March 7 April 7 August 9 | Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box March 7-Please fill-in edit summaries April 7-Automatic edit summary reminder Aug. 9-Abbreviating edit summaries | February 9 March 7 April 7 Aug. 9 |
| February 10 | Referencing for beginners | February 10 |
| February 11 | Another way to search Wikipedia with Google | February 11 |
| February 12 | Introduction to tables | February 12 |
| February 13 | Shortcut for minor edit box | February 13 |
| February 14 | Spreading the WikiLove | February 14 |
| February 15 | Templates for Age and Dates | February 15 |
| February 16 | Thanks – send a notification | February 16 |
| February 17 | Mobile view sidebar from the desktop | February 17 |
| February 18 | Using the Authority control template | February 18 |
| February 19 | When to use subpages | February 19 |
| February 20 | How to enable right-click section editing | February 20 |
| February 21 | Biographies | February 21 |
| February 22 | Wikipedia banners and buttons | February 22 |
| February 23 | Help for new contributors | February 23 |
| February 24 | Calendar date display for your user pages | February 24 |
| February 25 | Screen readers for accessibility | February 25 |
| February 26 | Editing projects for school and university classes | February 26 |
| February 27 | What is Page curation? | February 27 |
| February 28 | Writing articles for The Signpost | February 28 |
| February 29 March 12 August 17 October 7 | Please sign your name on talk pages Please sign your name on talk pages Please sign your name on talk pages Please sign your name on talk pages | February 29 - - - |
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March maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| March 1 | How to plant a CategoryTree! | March 1 |
| March 2 | Test-drive your edits using a sandbox | March 2 |
| March 3 | Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups | March 3 |
| March 4 | Supercharge your browser | March 4 |
| March 5 | How to create a link to another article | March 5 |
| March 6 | Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles | March 6 |
| March 7 see February 9 | Please fill-in edit summaries | March 7 |
| March 8 April 28 | March 8-How to get a list of a page's subpages April 28-Getting a subpage listing | March 8 |
| March 9 | Becoming an Administrator | March 9 |
| March 10 | Where to post requests | March 10 |
| March 11 | How to make links look the way you want | March 11 |
| March 12 see February 29 | Please sign your name on talk pages | - |
| March 13 | Are you lost? | March 13 |
| March 14 | How to create a new page | March 14 |
| March 15 | Wikipedia's top ten power tips | March 15 |
| March 16 October 31 (keeper) | Do you need administrator assistance? | October 31 |
| March 17 | How to turn redirects green | March 17 |
| March 18 April 10 | Cite your sources | March 18 |
| March 19 | Link tricks | March 19 |
| March 20 | Running MediaWiki on your own computer | March 20 |
| March 21 October 15 | Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts | October 15 |
| March 22 | Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex) | March 22 |
| March 23 | Getting your edit count | March 23 |
| March 24 | Transclusion vs. Substitution | March 24 |
| March 25 | Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt: | March 25 |
| March 26 April 17 | March 26 – SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit April 17 – A fun way to pick pages to edit | March 26 |
| March 27 | Work faster with keyboard shortcuts | March 27 |
| March 28 June 16 June 28 | Ask intelligent questions | March 28 |
| March 29 | Working on the Main page - I | March 29 |
| March 30 | Working on the Main page - II | March 30 |
| March 31 | Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most | March 31 |
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April maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| April 1 | Don not believe everything you read | April 1 |
| April 2 | Visit the Village Pump for technical issues | April 2 |
| April 3 | Stop by the Reference Desk | April 3 |
| April 4 | Where to upload images and media files | April 4 |
| April 5 | How to fix unsigned comments | April 5 |
| April 6 | Don not use forums or emails as sources | April 6 |
| April 7 | Automatic edit summary reminder | April 7 |
| April 8 | Collaborations | April 8 |
| April 9 | Search box bookmarklet for your browser | April 9 |
| April 10 | Cite your sources | March 18 |
| April 11 | Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowser | April 11 |
| April 12 | Help Wikipedia help you | April 12 |
| April 13 | Motto of the day... | April 13 |
| April 14 | Create a user account | April 14 |
| April 15 | Copyrights? Copyleft | April 15 |
| April 16 | Uploading Free Images | April 16 |
| April 17 | A fun way to pick pages to edit | April 17 |
| April 18 | How to change your username | April 18 |
| April 19 January 19 | Preview tomorrow's Featured Article | - |
| April 20 | Explore Wikipedia's contents | April 20 |
| April 21 | Featured article candidates | April 21 |
| April 22 | Wikipedia search box focus | April 22 |
| April 23 | How to move/rename a page | April 23 |
| April 24 | The Wikipedia Adventure! | April 24 |
| April 25 | Super-customize your account with gadgets | April 25 |
| April 26 | Keyboard shortcuts | April 26 |
| April 27 | Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?) | April 27 |
| April 28 | Getting a subpage listing | April 28 |
| April 29 | Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone | April 29 |
| April 30 | How to make links to articles | April 30 |
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May maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| May 1 | To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches | May 1 |
| May 2 | Time-saving links: the "pipe trick" | May 2 |
| May 3 | Prove it with ProveIt | May 3 |
| May 4 | Time-saving links II | May 4 |
| May 5 | Browsing Mobile Wikipedia on your big screen | May 5 |
| May 6 | Linking to a section of an article | May 6 |
| May 7 | Sister projects & interwiki linking | May 7 |
| May 8 | Displaying one page within another = Transclusion | May 8 |
| May 9 | Using templates | May 9 |
| May 10 | General topics lists | May 10 |
| May 11 | Userboxes | May 11 |
| May 12 | List building | May 12 |
| May 13 | When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject? | May 13 |
| May 14 | Centralizing project discussion | May 14 |
| May 15 | Redirects | May 15 |
| May 16 | Footnotes | May 16 |
| May 17 | How to add hidden editor notes in an article | May 17 |
| May 18 | How to review user contributions | May 18 |
| May 19 | Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia | May 19 |
| May 20 | Formatting disambiguation pages | May 20 |
| May 21 | Featured content | May 21 |
| May 22 | Table of contents | May 22 |
| May 23 | Transclusion caveat | May 23 |
| May 24 | Go to the right desk | May 24 |
| May 25 | Please return the favor | May 25 |
| May 26 | Check your work before you save, using Preview | May 26 |
| May 27 | Where on the page to put images | May 27 |
| May 28 | Placing templates | May 28 |
| May 29 | Placing "External links" sections | May 29 |
| May 30 Sept 24 | Main page - Did you know | May 30 |
| May 31 | Shortcuts | May 31 |
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June maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| June 1 | Placing category tags | June 1 |
| June 2 | Page history | June 2 |
| June 3 | Tag your image uploads | June 3 |
| June 4 | Placing interlanguage links | June 4 |
| June 5 | Sorting entries in the categories | June 5 |
| June 6 | Look before you leap | June 6 |
| June 7 | How to start a new article | June 7 |
| June 8 | Talking to Wikipedians | June 8 |
| June 9 | Cite the source on all image uploads | June 9 |
| June 10 | Preventing markup glitches | June 10 |
| June 11 | Use your watchlist | June 11 |
| June 12 | Navigation popups | June 12 |
| June 13 | How to insert a picture into an article | June 13 |
| June 14 | Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox | June 14 |
| June 15 | Section edit button | June 15 |
| June 16 March 28 June 28 | Ask intelligent questions In progress, see ARCHIVE(June 16) – Thanks – template WikiThanks | March 28 |
| June 17 | Beware of instruction creep | June 17 |
| June 18 | Fix double redirects | June 18 |
| June 19 | Alphabetical list of articles | June 19 |
| June 20 | Screenshots | June 20 |
| June 21 | Please read department instructions | June 21 |
| June 22 | When not to use links | June 22 |
| June 23 | A better wiki editor: WikEd | June 23 |
| June 24 | Change text size quickly (with Ctrl-mouse wheel) | June 24 |
| June 25 | Portals | June 25 |
| June 26 | What are templates used for? | June 26 |
| June 27 | Pretty tables | June 27 |
| June 28 June 16 March 28 | Ask intelligent questions | June 28 |
| June 29 | Wikipedia for your mobile... | June 29 |
| June 30 | Custom signatures | June 30 |
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July maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| July 1 | Citation Requests | July 1 |
| July 2 | Love thy neighbor | July 2 |
| July 3 | Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board | July 3 |
| July 4 | Band articles | July 4 |
| July 5 | List the things to do for an article | July 5 |
| July 6 | Wikipedia's Manual of Style | July 6 |
| July 7 | Welcoming Committee | July 7 |
| July 8 | The three revert rule | July 8 |
| July 9 | Avoid using neologisms | July 9 |
| July 10 | The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away | July 10 |
| July 11 | Jump to the search box ⇧ Shift+Alt+F | July 11 |
| July 12 | How to use red links | July 12 |
| July 13 | Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement | July 13 |
| July 14 | Using Math | July 14 |
| July 15 | Be forgiving to new users | July 15 |
| July 16 | Search Wikipedia from any website | July 16 |
| July 17 | Join the fight against vandalism | July 17 |
| July 18 | Short link pipe trick | July 18 |
| July 19 | Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia | July 19 |
| July 20 | How to make a table on a page | July 20 |
| July 21 - October 1 | July 21 – Displaying tips on your userpage Note. Do not change this tip. It is a linked tip on displaying tips! :-) Oct. 1 – How to display the Tip of the day on your user page | July 21 - October 1 |
| July 22 | What did he say? | July 22 |
| July 23 | Wikipedia industrial-powered search | July 23 |
| July 24 | Forums and emails are not acceptable sources | July 24 |
| July 25 | Wikipedia in brief | July 25 |
| July 26 | Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips | July 26 |
| July 27 | Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips | July 27 |
| July 28 | Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page | July 28 |
| July 29 | Another way to read or share Wikipedia: Books. | July 29 |
| July 30 | Wikipedia's Quick directory | July 30 |
| July 31 | How to link to a category without categorizing the page | July 31 |
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August maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
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| August 1 | Customize appearance of dates | August 1 |
| August 2 | Find uncategorized articles | August 2 |
| August 3 | The lead section | August 3 |
| August 4 | Articles for Creation (AFC) process | August 4 |
| August 5 | In conflicts, reach consensus | August 5 |
| August 6 | How to add an article to a category | August 6 |
| August 7 | Title searches | August 7 |
| August 8 | How to watch for pages that do not exist yet | August 8 |
| August 9 | Abbreviating edit summaries | August 9 |
| August 10 | How to create a category | August 10 |
| August 11 | How to search Wikipedia with Google | August 11 |
| August 12 | How to create reusable boilerplates | August 12 |
| August 13 | Acronyms and initialisms | August 13 |
| August 14 | To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area... | August 14 |
| August 15 | Explaining Wiki markup to other users | August 15 |
| August 16 | How to create a subcategory | August 16 |
| August 17 | Article size | August 17 |
| August 18 | How does Wikipedia stack up? | August 18 |
| August 19 | Speed up your learning curve... | August 19 |
| August 20 | What the world knows about us | August 20 |
| August 21 | How reliable is Wikipedia? | August 21 |
| August 22 | When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search | August 22 |
| August 23 | How to link to a category | August 23 |
| August 24 | Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser | August 24 |
| August 25 | Where to look for help | August 25 |
| August 26 | How to link to a section of an article | August 26 |
| August 27 | Join the Recent Changes Patrol! | August 27 |
| August 28 | Where did that fact come from? | August 28 |
| August 29 | How popular is Wikipedia? | August 29 |
| August 30 | Google search link | August 30 |
| August 31 | My link disappeared! | August 31 |
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September maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
|---|---|---|
| September 1 | Wikipedia's top ten essential tips | September 1 |
| September 2 | Spell Checkers | September 2 |
| September 3 | Install your first javascript | September 3 |
| September 4 | Guestbooks | September 4 |
| September 5 | How to use Wikipedia offline: xowa | September 5 |
| September 6 | Subject bar template | September 6 |
| September 7 | Article construction stages | September 7 |
| September 8 | Wikipedia Search box - advanced | September 8 |
| September 9 | Good article reassessment | September 9 |
| September 10 | Biography articles needing attention | September 10 |
| September 11 | Article deletion process | September 11 |
| September 12 | Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) | September 12 |
| September 13 | Copyright Cleanup | September 13 |
| September 14 | Wikipedia Database reports | September 14 |
| September 15 | CopyPatrol Tool | September 15 |
| September 16 | Featured world of Wikipedia | September 16 |
| September 17 | Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click | September 17 |
| September 18 | Difference between wikiprojects and portals? | September 18 |
| September 19 | Graphics Lab | September 19 |
| September 20 | Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox | September 20 |
| September 21 | How do you pronounce that? | September 21 |
| September 22 | External links | September 22 |
| September 23 | Counting your edits | September 23 |
| September 24 May 30 | Main page - Did you know | May 30 |
| September 25 | How to link to word definitions | September 25 |
| September 26 | Tagging pages for problems | September 26 |
| September 27 | What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle | September 27 |
| September 28 | Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub | September 28 |
| September 29 | Topic lists | September 29 |
| September 30 | Interwiki links and shortcuts | September 30 |
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October maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
|---|---|---|
| October 1 see July 21 | How to display the Tip of the day on your user page | October 1 |
| October 2 | Wikimedia-wide issues | October 2 |
| October 3 | Editcountitis | October 3 |
| October 4 | Category tips | October 4 |
| October 5 | Avoid trademarks | October 5 |
| October 6 | Wikipedia-specific searching with Google | October 6 |
| October 7 see February 29 | Please sign your name on talk pages | - |
| October 8 | User scripts | October 8 |
| October 9 | Linking articles: the internal link | October 9 |
| October 10 | How to find legal photographs and graphics | October 10 |
| October 11 | Keep track of your questions | October 11 |
| October 12 | How to transclude a page into the page you are editing | October 12 |
| October 13 | Why have lists when there are categories? | October 13 |
| October 14 | Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox | October 14 |
| October 15 March 21 | Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts | October 15 |
| October 16 | Power tool: Navigation Popups In progress, see ARCHIVE (October 16) – Thanks – detail logs | October 16 |
| October 17 | Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser | October 17 |
| October 18 | Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other | October 18 |
| October 19 | Translating content | October 19 |
| October 20 | The five pillars | October 20 |
| October 21 | Using Special:MyPage to make private links | October 21 |
| October 22 | Double click editing | October 22 |
| October 23 | Be neutral, like Wikipedia | October 23 |
| October 24 | Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces | October 24 |
| October 25 | How to see a list of the pages in a namespace | October 25 |
| October 26 | A plain & simple introduction | October 26 |
| October 27 | Basic copyediting | October 27 |
| October 28 | S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A | October 28 |
| October 29 | How to enhance Recent changes Note: twice at Tips library | October 29 October 29 |
| October 30 | Namespace entry points | October 30 |
| October 31 (keeper) March 16 | Do you need administrator assistance? | October 31 |
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November maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
|---|---|---|
| November 1 | Flashback to Wikipedia's past | November 1 |
| November 2 | Report problems on noticeboards | November 2 |
| November 3 | Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles | November 3 |
| November 4 | Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog | November 4 |
| November 5 | Wikimedia links and shortcuts Note: twice at Tips library | November 5 November 5 |
| November 6 | Advanced signatures | November 6 |
| November 7 | Be neutral when editing Wikipedia | November 7 |
| November 8 | Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis Note: twice at Tips library | November 8 November 8 |
| November 9 | "Where do I begin?" | November 9 |
| November 10 | Editing articles for web accessibility | November 10 |
| November 11 | The Wikipedia Curriculum | November 11 |
| November 12 | Giving editor awards | November 12 |
| November 13 | Spoken Wikipedia | November 13 |
| November 14 | Mediation | November 14 |
| November 15 | Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia... | November 15 |
| November 16 | How to turn links to disambiguation pages orange | November 16 |
| November 17 | Fansites, forums, & other web page articles | November 17 |
| November 18 | How to provide a Google search in a link | November 18 |
| November 19 | User Sub Pages | November 19 |
| November 20 | A comprehensive index for editors | November 20 |
| November 21 | Welcome to Wikipedia! | November 21 |
| November 22 | Making the editbox more visually pleasing | November 22 |
| November 23 | Permission requests | November 23 |
| November 24 | Lead Section Size | November 24 |
| November 25 | Try to see it my way! | November 25 |
| November 26 | Pick from a list of template parameter choices | November 26 |
| November 27 | World of fiction | November 27 |
| November 28 | Same titles, different meanings | November 28 |
| November 29 | Brilliant pictures | November 29 |
| November 30 | Undoing edits | November 30 |
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December maintenance
More information TOTDSchedule Queue, Tip ...
| TOTD Schedule Queue | Tip | Tips library |
|---|---|---|
| December 1 | No copies of primary sources | December 1 |
| December 2 | Dates in Wikipedia articles | December 2 |
| December 3 | Find stubs and expand them | December 3 |
| December 4 | How to look at the changes to an article | December 4 |
| December 5 | How to customize your signature | December 5 |
| December 6 | When to use external links | December 6 |
| December 7 | How to adjust the height of your edit window | December 7 |
| December 8 | How to add a picture to an article | December 8 |
| December 9 | How to skip scrolling and clicking | December 9 |
| December 10 | Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette | December 10 |
| December 11 | Section editing | December 11 |
| December 12 | What writing style to use | December 12 |
| December 13 | Where to write about current events | December 13 |
| December 14 | Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts | December 14 |
| December 15 | Advice for parents | December 15 |
| December 16 | Automating tasks on Wikipedia | December 16 |
| December 17 | Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help... | December 17 |
| December 18 | Accuracy, quality and peer review | December 18 |
| December 19 | What can be included in Wikipedia? | December 19 |
| December 20 | Freedom of speech and profanity | December 20 |
| December 21 | Cannot find what you are looking for? | December 21 |
| December 22 | Why create an account? | December 22 |
| December 23 | Your user page | December 23 |
| December 24 | Wikimedia has mailing lists | December 24 |
| December 25 | Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences | December 25 |
| December 26 | Watching for changes | December 26 |
| December 27 | If you have privileged access to web pages... | December 27 |
| December 28 | Help test the MediaWiki software | December 28 |
| December 29 | Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins | December 29 |
| December 30 | Come visit the Teahouse | December 30 |
| December 31 | Not everything that is true is verifiable | December 31 |
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Tip Suggestion
Some tips outdated?
Hi there, MusikAnimal raised a concern that some tips were very outdated, in the talk page of a Signpost article (we republished a week of recent tips). Please see Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-03-27/Tips and tricks for more. Thanks! 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 21:04, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
BLOCKED,UNBLOCKED
I recently have gone threw this PROBLEM, "being blocked ".Something needs to be done about" blocking "? I mean for the people that haven't done anything wrong.Some HOW need to come up with away to tell that the person using there device IPaddress 'wrongly?maybe Something like a sign (image)or that can signal like A'color change in the system of there PHONE or Desktop,.?" instead of blocking everyone within a range of the IPaddress " maybe some HOW shorting the IPaddress or changing or tracing the actial. Crazylady492 (talk) 14:06, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
"Wikipedia:CopyPatrol" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wikipedia:CopyPatrol and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 24 § Wikipedia:CopyPatrol until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:18, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
Question for December 3 tip - Finding stubs and making them grow
At Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 3 it says set the threshold for stub display in your user Preferences. I searched all of user Pref. and cannot find where to set stub threshold? JoeNMLC (talk) 10:44, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
- That might be outdated then, as I feel the majority of January 9 is. It mentions iTunes and Windows Media Player, which both have multiple successors. Maybe in the Tip for December 3, that could be removed, and the current tip for January 9 could see mentions of older software replaced. Xan ✨ talk 07:41, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS
WHERE DO I LOG IN? 103.216.193.98 (talk) 16:53, 9 January 2024 (UTC)