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If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  —Crowstar^{Vaseline-on-the-lens-Jitsu!fwends!} 00:56, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

August 2007

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to 2007. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. THF 00:57, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

How to add "Today's featured picture to your userpage

{{helpme}}

I need help on posting daily pictures on my user page.

Copy the following source code to your userpage:

The result should look like this:

Today's featured picture The Giechburg is a partly reconstructed hilltop castle located in the town of Scheßlitz in Bavaria, Germany. There was a hilltop fort at the site from at least Neolithic times, and the castle enters written history in 1125. In 1390, it entered the possession of the prince-bishops of Bamberg, and its history thereafter is closely allied to the bishopric and the city of Bamberg. The castle was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the subsequent centuries before undergoing extensive redevelopment between 1599 and 1609. It became less useful to the prince-bishops over the subsequent centuries however, and eventually fell into ruin. After a period in the 19th and 20th centuries in the hands of the von Giech family, the castle was eventually acquired by the district of Bamberg in 1971 and reconstructed as a conference and hospitality centre. This 2021 aerial photograph shows the Giechburg viewed from the north, with the village of Peulendorf in the background. Photograph credit: Reinhold Möller Recently featured: Plains-wanderer Ethel Smyth InSight

Shalom ^Hello 19:42, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

If you want to post a different set of pictures to your userpage, ask me specifically. For example, if you want to post the comic at Portal:Comics to your userpage, I can help you with that. Shalom ^Hello 19:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bigearedtiger, it's pretty simple to do. (I assume you mean that you'd like to show the current Featured picture of the day on your user page.) You can add it to your userpage by including the right on your user page. (Basically, when you include a template, you ask the Wiki software to include the text of another page in the current one.) The template in this case is called POTD; to include it, simply place this text on your userpage:

{{POTD}}

This version will include something that's a little smaller than Shalom's solution. Iknowyourider (t c) 19:46, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and there's also {{Pic of the day}}, which is a bit in-between in size. Iknowyourider (t c) 19:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Shalom and Iknowyourider! I have now successfully put on the picture of the day. Thanks!