Taranah

It's now 14:27 (UTC) on Wednesday June 26, 2024.

Hi,

I'm not a very active editor anymore, but aspire to get back into it as time allows. I teach social studies to middle schoolers in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

I created this account on January 23, 2007. It is named after a fictional character: a wise, but somewhat mad, prophet. Below this introduction is a dusty collection of tips and links which I have found useful.

- Taranah

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Tip of the day...

What are templates used for?

Templates are pages that you can include on another page. They are usually used to insert boilerplate messages that need to be displayed on more than one page. Templates are quite versatile and can be used to accomplish many things. For example, some specialized uses for templates are:

• Displaying a different page each day (like the Tip of the day, Pic of the day, etc.)
• Infoboxes (e.g., Template:Infobox philosopher). To see Socrates in this infobox, click here.
• Displaying a random page (see this implemented at Wikipedia:Featured content).
• Navigation bars (e.g., Template:Portals browsebar).
• Navigation boxes (e.g., Template:Greek myth).
• WikiProject task boxes (e.g., Template:PhilosophyTasksBox).
• Page headers, like the header at the top of the Help Desk

To include a template on a page, enclose it in double curly brackets, leaving out the prefix "Template:", like this: {{In the news}}

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Read more:

Templates  

Become a Wikipedia tipster

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

Useful Links

• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Wikipedia: Manual of Style
• purge function
• Template:Fact
• Citation templates
• Wannabe Kate Counter