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This is the coordination page for the Tip of the day department.

See Tip of the day scheduling queue for the complete schedule of tips.

See Wikipedia:Tips for the complete library of tips arranged by subject.

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Welcome!

The tip of the day (or TOTD) is a helpful tip on how to use or edit Wikipedia. It is displayed by template on prominent help and community pages (and many user pages), presenting a different tip each day. The template displays the tip page named for the current date. The year is left off of the page titles, so that the same collection of tips redisplays automatically year after year.

Our purpose here is to keep the tips relevant. This means keeping tip pages up-to-date, and replacing tips with new ones when they become obsolete. In addition to this, we are constantly on the lookout for better tips to improve the overall collection, replacing not-as-useful tips with more useful ones.

As you probably guessed, that means there are 366 tip pages that need to be maintained. We welcome your help in maintaining and adding tips.

To suggest a new tip or report a problem with a tip, create a new section at the very bottom of this Talk page to let us know. Feel free to make corrections directly to tip pages, and please let us know at the bottom of this page when you do. Other ideas and comments are also welcome.

To view and check the TOTD a day before it goes live, place {{totd-tomorrow}} on your user Talk page (including the four curly braces).

If you would like to join this department, please add yourself to the participants list below.

Invitation to the Tip of the day WikiProject Hello Tip of the day, You are invited to join the Tip of the day, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to providing useful daily advice on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. To join the project, just add your name to the participants list. We're so glad you're here!                       –

How to invite

To invite another editor to contribute to Tip of the day, copy and paste {{subst:Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Invitation}} into a new section on their talk page. Feel free to include your own personal message as well. Cheers!

There is a bot automatically generated list of active editors.

If you'd like to be kept up-to-date on what is going on with TOTD, and receive task assignments, please add your name below:

• JoeHebda (talk)
• The Transhumanist
• Sachinmtk Hope for life. 09:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC) (inactive on WP since May 2015)
• Learnerktm
• blackhat999
• {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
• Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk)
• Eddie Blick 10:57, 2 May 2017‎
• Ammarpad (talk) 16:01, 18 October 2017‎
• Thinker78 (talk) 05:32, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
• Nick Moyes (talk) 20:06, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
• ThatOneWolf ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:42, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Here is a plain Welcome message for posting to new participant's talk page. To post the message copy and paste this:
{{totd plain welcome}} (including the four curly braces).

Remember to sign the message with your four tilde signature: ~~~~

* Welcome! Thank you for your recent edits for the Wikipedia Tip of the day and for joining the Tip of the day department.

• New tips (or major rewrites) should be proposed via a New section at the very bottom of this Talk page. Ping other editors if possible. Wait for comments and consensus.
• Minor updates and copy-edits to existing tips can be done directly at that tip's RAW template found via the Tip of the day scheduling queue.
• The 366 slots (one for each day of the yearless calendar, including February 29 for leap year) are set up on Wikipedia:Tip of the day so whenever any new tip is added, or an obsolete tip is removed, one of the 366 days needs to be chosen. Put the new tip in a slot that is already duplicated in another slot (e.g.- the same tip is repeated for January 17 and July 17). Replace the duplicate slot that is coming up the soonest using the general workflow checklist below.

General workflow checklist to add a new tip to replace an existing tip

1. Directly place the updated (Done) tip into the Tip of the day scheduling queue at one of the 366 subpages by editing the tip.
2. Update the tip's description at:
   1. Wikipedia:Tip of the day#Chronological list of tips.
   2. WP:ALPHATIP – Alphabetical list of tips page.
   3. Wikipedia:Tips, the complete library of tips arranged by subject (pipe the description, link the date to the piped description per the other listings).
      1. If you add a tip you may need to remove a tip too. Check for duplicates.
3. Update Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day#Tip library maintenance below. You will also need to remove the added date from other months where it is duplicated- e.g.- if you add a tip in place of one in January and it is duplicated in July you will need to remove the January reference in the July maintenance listing.

How to prevent new tip archiving

Use Bump which is a wrapper for the invisible template {{do not archive until}} that is used to prevent bots archiving a discussion thread.

It produces a visible message that the thread has been bumped, and how long for (defaults to 30 days), if a value of days has been specified. It will auto-sign the notification.

{{subst:Bump}} produces:

Bumping thread. Example (talk) 09:45, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

{{subst:Bump|30}} produces:

Bumping thread for 30 days. Example (talk) 09:45, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Always use the subst prefix, and place under the section title.

Tip library maintenance

As of August 1, 2016, the count of tips (from the scheduling queue) contained within the Tip library:

From the above list, it appears that there are not 366 unique individual tips, which opens the door for new tips to be added to the schedule as well as removal of duplicate tips.

To keep the Tip library in step with the scheduling queue, additional editors may help by reviewing the Tip library and performing cleanup. When each month is completed, please add the {{Done}} template to that month's line in the list above.

Until we reach 366 tips, new tips can be placed into the TOTD Schedule Queue by replacing a duplicate entry from the monthly maintenance lists below.

January maintenance

February maintenance

March maintenance

April maintenance

May maintenance

June maintenance

TOTD Schedule Queue	Tip	Tips library
June 1	Placing category tags	June 1
June 2	Page history	June 2
June 3	Tag your image uploads	June 3
June 4	Placing interlanguage links	June 4
June 5	Sorting entries in the categories	June 5
June 6	Look before you leap	June 6
June 7	How to start a new article	June 7
June 8	Talking to Wikipedians	June 8
June 9	Cite the source on all image uploads	June 9
June 10	Preventing markup glitches	June 10
June 11	Use your watchlist	June 11
June 12	Navigation popups	June 12
June 13	How to insert a picture into an article	June 13
June 14	Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox	June 14
June 15	Section edit button	June 15
June 16 March 28 June 28	Ask intelligent questions  In progress, see ARCHIVE (June 16) – Thanks – template WikiThanks	March 28
June 17	Beware of instruction creep	June 17
June 18	Fix double redirects	June 18
June 19	Alphabetical list of articles	June 19
June 20	Screenshots	June 20
June 21	Please read department instructions	June 21
June 22	When not to use links	June 22
June 23	A better wiki editor: WikEd	June 23
June 24	Change text size quickly (with Ctrl-mouse wheel)	June 24
June 25	Portals	June 25
June 26	What are templates used for?	June 26
June 27	Pretty tables	June 27
June 28 June 16 March 28	Ask intelligent questions	June 28
June 29	Wikipedia for your mobile...	June 29
June 30	Custom signatures	June 30

July maintenance

TOTD Schedule Queue	Tip	Tips library
July 1	Citation Requests	July 1
July 2	Love thy neighbor	July 2
July 3	Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board	July 3
July 4	Band articles	July 4
July 5	List the things to do for an article	July 5
July 6	Wikipedia's Manual of Style	July 6
July 7	Welcoming Committee	July 7
July 8	The three revert rule	July 8
July 9	Avoid using neologisms	July 9
July 10	The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away	July 10
July 11	Jump to the search box ⇧ Shift+Alt+F	July 11
July 12	How to use red links	July 12
July 13	Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement	July 13
July 14	Using Math	July 14
July 15	Be forgiving to new users	July 15
July 16	Search Wikipedia from any website	July 16
July 17	Join the fight against vandalism	July 17
July 18	Short link pipe trick	July 18
July 19	Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia	July 19
July 20	How to make a table on a page	July 20
July 21 - October 1	July 21 – Displaying tips on your userpage Note. Do not change this tip. It is a linked tip on displaying tips! :-) Oct. 1 – How to display the Tip of the day on your user page	July 21 - October 1
July 22	What did he say?	July 22
July 23	Wikipedia industrial-powered search	July 23
July 24	Forums and emails are not acceptable sources	July 24
July 25	Wikipedia in brief	July 25
July 26	Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips Contains wikilinks to many tips	July 26
July 27	Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips	July 27
July 28	Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page	July 28
July 29	Another way to read or share Wikipedia: Books.	July 29
July 30	Wikipedia's Quick directory	July 30
July 31	How to link to a category without categorizing the page	July 31

August maintenance

September maintenance

October maintenance

TOTD Schedule Queue	Tip	Tips library
October 1 see July 21	How to display the Tip of the day on your user page	October 1
October 2	Wikimedia-wide issues	October 2
October 3	Editcountitis	October 3
October 4	Category tips	October 4
October 5	Avoid trademarks	October 5
October 6	Wikipedia-specific searching with Google	October 6
October 7 see February 29	Please sign your name on talk pages	-
October 8	User scripts	October 8
October 9	Linking articles: the internal link	October 9
October 10	How to find legal photographs and graphics	October 10
October 11	Keep track of your questions	October 11
October 12	How to transclude a page into the page you are editing	October 12
October 13	Why have lists when there are categories?	October 13
October 14	Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox	October 14
October 15 March 21	Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts	October 15
October 16	Power tool: Navigation Popups  In progress, see ARCHIVE (October 16) – Thanks – detail logs	October 16
October 17	Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser	October 17
October 18	Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other Contains wikilinks to many tips	October 18
October 19	Translating content	October 19
October 20	The five pillars	October 20
October 21	Using Special:MyPage to make private links	October 21
October 22	Double click editing	October 22
October 23	Be neutral, like Wikipedia	October 23
October 24	Wikipedia has 22 sections, called namespaces	October 24
October 25	How to see a list of the pages in a namespace	October 25
October 26	A plain & simple introduction	October 26
October 27	Basic copyediting	October 27
October 28	S.W.A.T., T.I.M, & the U.S.D.A	October 28
October 29	How to enhance Recent changes Note: twice at Tips library	October 29 October 29
October 30	Namespace entry points	October 30
October 31 (keeper) March 16	Do you need administrator assistance?	October 31

November maintenance

December maintenance

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