Wikipedia:User page design guide/Decor

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Hall of Fame

If you'd like a continuous refill reminder, the floating cup of coffee can be put in place by using this code: {{User:Yworo/havacuppa}}

"Have a cuppa... Coffee?"

You are getting very sleepy...

I can't wait to edit another page!

Whatever does this mean?!

Banners and buttons

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Tip of the Day

Tip of the moment... The lead section The lead section is an essential summary of an article, located above the first heading. In the source text (the text in the edit window), a heading looks like this: == This is a heading == The lead section is a very important part of every article. The length should correspond to the overall length of the article: an article of 50,000 characters might well have a three paragraph lead, while one of 15,000 or less should limit itself to one or two paragraphs. The text should give a good overview of the article, but it should also get the reader hooked and interested in learning more. Take a look at some featured articles for inspiration. It is often a good idea to align a representative image with the lead by placing [[File:Filename.jpg|thumb|caption]] just before the first heading. (Filename is the name of the desired file and caption is a description of the image). Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Guide to writing better articles, lead section   Wikipedia:How to create and manage a good lead section   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

Tip of the day... Transclusion caveat When you transclude a page (that is, automate the display of a page's content on another page), all its tags (like {{TOCRight}}) go with it, which will be implemented on the host page. Just add the following code if you want to add a right-aligned TOC to a page, but do not want it to be displayed on "derivative" pages: <noinclude> {{TOCright}} </noinclude> For a more detailed explanation, see Help:Wiki markup#Templates and transcluding pages. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Help:Template   Wikipedia:Transclusion   Wikipedia:Substitution   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}

The Tip of the Day project provides a different piece of advice for using Wikipedia every day. Like the Picture of the Day, you can include it on your userpage by adding {{totd}} somewhere (at the top of your talk page is a good place for it). The randomized version (displayed above) is {{totd-random}}, and shows a different tip each time it is displayed on your screen. Other formats for the TOTD exist, such as the more compact {{totd3}}, or you can make your own by including {{Wikipedia:Tip of the day/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} on your userpage (which includes the raw text, without any formatting) and then enclose it in your own formatting. To float the tip of the day to the right of content (as it is displayed here), place this code where you want the tip to show up: {{right|{{totd3}}}}.

Style tips

A spin off of the tip of the day, this is another template that provides useful instruction a little at a time.

... Dates Don't link dates or date-fragments unless there's a very good reason to do so (however, date- and year-themed articles themselves, such as January 3 and 1981, are an exception to this). Avoid numerical date formats such as "03/04/2005" (this could refer to 3 April or March 4—who knows?). Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

To place it on your userpage, copy and paste this:

{{Styletips}}

Barnometer

This is an example of a Barnometer, to display the barnstars you've received in a humorous timescale. You can check the coding and then tweak it according to your own needs. Hold your mouse pointer over each barnstar to read each greeting.

Barnometer™
	noob	involved	been around	veteran	seen it all	older than the Cabal itself

Mottos/slogans/quotes/thoughtboxes

Mottos

There's a motto of the day project, called, you guessed it: Wikipedia:Motto of the day. To use it, just place {{Motd}} on your user page!

Here's what it looks like:

Today's motto...
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nominate one today!

Thoughtboxes

This positive thoughtbox was found on Lord Voldemort's userpage:

What happens when a Wikipedian dies? He or she just doesn't show up to edit anymore. Does anybody notice? Does anybody really even care? To all those Wikipedians who may have died and been forgotten here, Thank you for your contributions and Rest in Peace.

Quotes

Quote of the week: {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Quote}}

Quote of the Week

“

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

” — Fred Rogers

Random quote: {{Randomquote}}

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one, since its beginning and end are not under the control of the same man.

— Sallust

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Pics and images

There is a huge selection of pictures on Wikipedia and its sister site Wikimedia Commons. Pictures can be a powerful way to express yourself...

Terrorists don't have the Bomb... Yet.

Mountains in New Hampshire.

Pictures can be found all over Wikipedia, but it can be very time-consuming to hunt for them in the encyclopedia's articles. Another option is to browse Wikipedia's collections...

Image categories

Some images can be found in the categorical index, at:

• Category:Wikipedia images
• Category:Wikipedia featured pictures

But most of the images used on Wikipedia are kept at:

• Wikimedia Commons (plus a whole lot more)

Featured pictures

Featured pictures can also be found in the picture of the day archive:

A monthly archive of Wikipedia's featured pictures

2004:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2005:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2006:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2007:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2008:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2009:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2010:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2011:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2012:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2013:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2014:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2015:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2016:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2017:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2018:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2019:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2020:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2021:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2022:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2023:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2024:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2025:	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December

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There is usually a long delay before a featured picture is scheduled into the picture of the day system, so two other places to look for featured pictures are:

• Wikipedia:Featured pictures
• Featured picture thumbnails

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Picture(s) of the day

The Picture of the Day, which changes daily, is currently displayed every day on the Main Page, and you can use it to decorate your userpage as well...

Here's what the various picture of the day templates look like. To place them on your user page, include the corresponding double-curly bracket code, and the picture will be displayed automagically:

{{pic of the day}}

Picture of the day

InSight was an American spacecraft mission launched by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, consisting of a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars. Launched in 2018, the mission was active until late 2022, when contact with the lander was lost. InSight's objectives were to place a seismometer on the surface of Mars to measure seismic activity and provide accurate three-dimensional models of the planet's interior, and to measure internal heat transfer using a heat probe to study Mars's early geological evolution. This was intended to provide a new understanding of how the Solar System's terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) as well as the Moon formed and evolved. This 2015 photograph shows three technicians working on the InSight lander with its solar panels deployed during preflight testing in a cleanroom in Denver, Colorado.Photograph credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Lockheed Martin

{{POTD}}

Picture of the day

InSight

Photograph credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Lockheed Martin

• Archive
• More featured pictures

{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}

InSight was an American spacecraft mission launched by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, consisting of a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars. Launched in 2018, the mission was active until late 2022, when contact with the lander was lost. InSight's objectives were to place a seismometer on the surface of Mars to measure seismic activity and provide accurate three-dimensional models of the planet's interior, and to measure internal heat transfer using a heat probe to study Mars's early geological evolution. This was intended to provide a new understanding of how the Solar System's terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) as well as the Moon formed and evolved. This 2015 photograph shows three technicians working on the InSight lander with its solar panels deployed during preflight testing in a cleanroom in Denver, Colorado.

Photograph credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Lockheed Martin

• Archive
• More featured pictures

If you'd rather have it without the text (to make it smaller), you can use {{Wikipedia:POTD/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}_{{CURRENTDAY}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}} instead.

Alternate picture of the day

To display the alternate picture of the day from the no-restrictions anybody-can-add-a-pic-right-now picture project, use {{rpotd}}, which displays this:

Random picture of the day

Church of Abbaye de Chelles

Image credit: Chabe01 (talk · contribs)

Unlike PotD, these pictures are not featured. You can use {{rpotd}} to add the daily random picture to your userpage.

To display the alternate cool random picture of the day from User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator, use {{User:FormalDude/Contributions/Templates/Random Cool Picture Generator}}, which displays this:

Random Cool Picture:

Common Kingfisher hunting in water.

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Commons picture of the day

You can also display the Commons Picture of the Day, which is different from the featured picture displayed on the main page, with {{WP:Wikimedia Commons/POTD}}. Which shows this:

Praying women in Nepal. Today is the Nepalese national holiday Buddha Purnima.

Fun art

Can you become the Supreme Leader of the Supreme Cabal?

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Signs

Troll-free zone

WikiLove-zone

Logos & symbols

• Stolen from Supernerd11's page,

<div style="position:absolute; top:-13.2em; left:-15em; background:#f6f6f6; z-index:1;"></div>

should create a logo that roughly covers the boring default logo. This needs to be tweaked a bit, but gives you an empiric formula of sorts.

Jokes, including prank markup

Caught you

(Refresh)

Instead of doing something useful, You have been staring at this page since 06:10 Thursday, May 23, 2024 UTC.

Other template

Other joke templates can be found at the department of fun.