Welcome to my user page edit

Hello. I am a Wikipedia user, and interested in adding new material and editing existing material. Been registered for a few years now. This is my user page. I find Wikipedia incredibly useful and after some years of using it and seeing it grow, I got inspired to join the many others who are contributing to it. As I am new to this, I am keeping personal information to the bare minimum until I learn my way around. I like the name DonToto so I am keeping it.

[20 March 2016] Well it's been a few years since I wrote the note above. I still like keeping a low profile. I have come to one conclusion so far - some people have an axe to grind. You can tell by some of the edits that get reverted. (:>)

Job edit

Self-employed in the IT (Information Technology) industry, in Toronto, Canada.

Interests edit

Computer science, movies, biography, history, which is what I mainly use Wikipedia for. Actually I use Wikipedia for a lot of reference work.

Family edit

I have one.

Tip of the day edit

Tip of the day...
 
Displaying one page within another = Transclusion

Including the contents of a template page on a different page (by surrounding the page name with double braces, i.e. "{{}}" and leaving out the "Template:" prefix) is called transclusion.

This allows the other page to be automatically updated whenever the template page is updated.

Besides templates, pages in the following namespaces can be transcluded:

  • Category:
  • Help:
  • Portal:
  • User:
  • Wikipedia:

The only difference between transcluding these and templates is that you must include the prefix (followed by a colon) with the page's name inside the double braces.

Images also can be transcluded, but this is done using double square brackets instead of braces.

Here are some examples of transclusion:

{{Pic of the day}} · {{Help:Contents}} · [[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png]]

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{tip of the day}}

Page stats tool edit

"Wikipedia page stats tool".