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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?"
"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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Main page: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons


Tip of the Day

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Tip of the moment...
 
Supercharge your browser

There are a number of ways to improve your web browser to make it a more effective Wikipedia tool:

As you can see, tools are implemented in a number of ways. There are tools available for many different purposes, and with many different functions, and some that are multipurpose. Many of these are explained at Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools, which includes a list of tools, for each major browser.

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}


Tip of the day...
Spell Checkers

Here are some spelling checkers to assist you in your Wikipedia editing. Please spell check before you save an article. (Also nice for spot checking articles).

Read more:
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

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

Another styletip ...


 
Quotations: allowable typographical changes


Although the requirement of minimal change in direct quotations is strict, a few purely typographical elements of quoted text should be conformed to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment. These include the following:

  • Use the style chosen for the article: unspaced em dash or spaced en dash.
  • Set apostrophes and quotation marks straight, not curly.
  • Remove spaces before punctuation such as periods, colons, and %.
  • When integrating the quotation into the grammar of a larger sentence, downcase the first letter of a quotation that is in upper case purely because it starts a sentence in the source (It turned out to be true that "a penny saved is a penny earned").

But generally preserve bold and italic face, and the variety of English.


Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

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

{{Styletips}}

Barnometer

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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

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Mottos

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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...
→ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.


Nominate one today!

Thoughtboxes

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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

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

Quote of the Week

Random quote: {{Randomquote}}

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

— Aristotle

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Pics and images

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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

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

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

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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
2026: January February March April May June July August September October November December

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:

Picture(s) of the day

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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}}

The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is a written agreement that was signed on the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. It formalized the surrender of Japan and marked the end of hostilities in World War II. The agreement was signed on behalf of Emperor Hirohito by Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, and on behalf of the Japanese armed forces by General Yoshijirō Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff. It was then signed by representatives from the Allied nations: the United States, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. This image shows the Allied copy of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which is now housed in the United States National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.Document credit: United States Department of War; scanned by the National Archives and Records Administration, restored by Lise Broer
Archive – More featured pictures...


{{POTD}}


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

 

The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is a written agreement that was signed on the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. It formalized the surrender of Japan and marked the end of hostilities in World War II. The agreement was signed on behalf of Emperor Hirohito by Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, and on behalf of the Japanese armed forces by General Yoshijirō Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff. It was then signed by representatives from the Allied nations: the United States, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. This image shows the Allied copy of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which is now housed in the United States National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.

Document credit: United States Department of War; scanned by the National Archives and Records Administration, restored by Lise Broer

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

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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:

 

From the negative collection of the City Antiquarian Museum of Trondheim.



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:
 
Lightning storm in southern France.



Commons picture of the day

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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:

 Coral (Favia favus), Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt. This species of stony corals is massive and forms thickly encrusting dome-shaped colonial corals. There is a great diversity of form even among the same species. The corallites project slightly above the surface of the coral and each has its own wall. The septa and costae linked to the corallite wall are well developed and covered by fine teeth. The polyps only extend and feed during the night. Each one has a small number of tapering tentacles which often have a darker coloured tip; these are called stinger tentacles, or sweeper tentacles. They use these to sweep the water to see if any other coral is in its area; if so, then they begin to sting the other coral. This is commonly known as coral war. Each coral is trying to make sure it has enough room around it so it can continue to grow and have more surface area for its offspring.

Fun art

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Signs

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Troll-free zone

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WikiLove-zone

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Logos & symbols

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<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

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Caught you

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(Refresh) 		        Instead of doing something useful,
You have been staring at this page since 18:17 Tuesday, September 2, 2025 UTC.

Other template

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

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