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

To help centralize discussions and keep related topics together, all Tip-of-the-day sub-template talk pages and their related category talk pages are to be posted here.

Welcome!

The tip of the day (or TOTD) is a helpful tip on how to use or edit Misplaced Pages. 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.

For the complete schedule of tips, see Tip of the day scheduling queue.
See also Misplaced Pages:Tips, the complete library of tips arranged by subject.

How you can help

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).

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.

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

Participants

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)
• Tortle
• The Transhumanist
• Sachinmtk Hope for life. 09:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC) (inactive on WP since May 2015)
• Fdizile (developer)
• AmRit GhiMire "Ranjit"
• - Kiwuser (talk)
• Learnerktm
• blackhat999
• {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
• LupusDeSol —Preceding undated comment added 04:08, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Welcome message

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 Misplaced Pages Tip of the day and for joining the Tip of the day department.

Instructions

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 Misplaced Pages: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 following general workflow:

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

1. Directly place the updated 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. Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day#Chronological list of tips.
   2. WP:ALPHATIP - Alphabetical list of tips page.
   3. Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages talk:Tip of the day#Tip library maintenance (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).

Tip library maintenance

As of October 2, 2015, the count of tips (from the scheduling queue) contained within the Tip library:

• January - 31 tips
• February - 29 tips
• March - 29 tips
• April - 28 tips
• May - 30 tips
• June - 28 tips
• July - 19 tips
• August - 9 tips
• September - 11 tips
• October - 29 tips
• November - 27 tips
• December - 30 tips

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

TOTD Schedule Queue	Tip	Tips library
February 1	Automatic page loader.	February 1
February 2	Redirect synonymous topic names	February 2
February 3	Fixing bare URLs to prevent link rot	February 3
February 4	Join a WikiProject.	February 4
February 5 August 5	In conflicts, reach consensus  In progress, see Talk below (February 5) - Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat)	February 5
February 6 August 6	How to add an article to a category  In progress, see Talk below (February 6) - Flashback to Misplaced Pages's past	February 6
February 7	How to provide a link to a specific Google Search	February 7
February 8 August 8	How to watch for pages that do not exist yet  In progress, see Talk below (February 8) - Searching help pages	February 8
February 9 March 7 April 7 August 9 September 7	Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box March 7-Please fill-in edit summaries April 7-Automatic edit summary reminder Aug. 9-Abbreviating edit summaries Sept. 7-Please fill-in edit summaries	February 9 March 7 April 7 Aug. 9 -
February 10	Referencing for beginners	February 10
February 11	Another way to search Misplaced Pages with Google	February 11
February 12	Introduction to tables	February 12
February 13	Shortcut for minor edit box	February 13
February 14 August 14	To see everything on Misplaced Pages about a subject area...  In progress Thanks - send a notification	February 14
February 15	Using the Authority control template (moved to Feb. 18)  In progress Thanks - template WikiThanks	February 15
February 16 August 16	How to create a subcategory  In progress Thanks - detail logs	February 16
February 17	How to plant a CategoryTree!  In progress, see Talk below Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 17 - Show page in mobile view while browsing the desktop site (in progress)	February 17
February 18	Using the Authority control template	February 18
February 19 August 19	When to use subpages	February 19
February 20 August 20	What the world knows about us	February 20
February 21 August 21	How reliable is Misplaced Pages?	February 21
February 22 August 22	When and how to exclude Misplaced Pages from your Google search	February 22
February 23 August 23	How to link to a category	February 23
February 24 August 24	Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser	February 24
February 25 August 25	Where to look for help	August 25
February 26 August 26	How to link to a section of an article	February 26
February 27	What is Page curation?	February 27
February 28 August 28	Where did that fact come from?!	February 28
February 29 March 12 August 17 October 7	Please sign your name on talk pages Please sign your name on talk pages Please sign your name on talk pages Please sign your name on talk pages	February 29 - - -

March maintenance

April maintenance

May maintenance

June maintenance

July maintenance

August maintenance

September maintenance

October maintenance

November maintenance

December maintenance

Daily tips kind of obsolite

I'd like to design a template that spits out one of the tips. Is there a list of them? In my design the template will take a parameter of how often the tip should change which /can/ be daily and it won't suffer from problems such as leap year. -- A Certain White Cat 03:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm in the process of revising the tips. If there are any tips that you know are obsolete, please let me know.

Note that {{Totd-random}} presents a random tip, each time the page it is displayed upon is accessed or purged. It's the tip of the moment. It's source text might be worth copying and modifying to make a new template.

For all the various TOTD template formats available, see Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/July 21 (How to display the tip-of-the-day on your user page). The Transhumanist 04:27, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not aware of a leap year problem. There's a tip for February 29. The Transhumanist 16:09, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Are these the 10 most powerful tips?

A tip that will be displayed on January 27th presents the following 10 tips as the most powerful tips (for using or editing Misplaced Pages):

1. Use your watchlist
2. Super-customize your account with gadgets (Navigation popups, etc.)
3. Work faster using keyboard shortcuts
4. Navigate faster using Misplaced Pages shortcuts
5. Edit Misplaced Pages faster with AutoWikiBrowser
6. Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift+Alt+F
7. Search Misplaced Pages from any website
8. Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Misplaced Pages
9. Templates
10. User scripts

My question for you is, are these the most powerful tips?

If not, what are?

Thank you. The Transhumanist 10:42, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

3 and 6 (keyboard shortcuts) can go to "esoteric" from my very not-neutral POV, pick what you like better and be BOLD. –Be..anyone (talk) 11:09, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

User:Be..anyone, what's the most powerful trick or technique that you use? The Transhumanist 11:15, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

I like mw:Help:Magic words, mw:Help:Parser functions, {{Cite web}} (excl. the bogus YYYY-MM "error"), the new mw:Help:TemplateData, I hope to grok more of d: (wikidata) soon, and I link to SoFixIt often, unless I'm busy fixing something. –Be..anyone (talk) 12:14, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

I would extend "Misplaced Pages shortcuts" to interwiki prefixes as well. For example, you can type "mw:LUAREF" into the search bar to go to the Lua reference manual on mediawiki.org, or just "mw:" to go to its main page. Also, for beginners, turning on VisualEditor is probably going to be the most powerful tip out there. I'm guessing that quite a few people give up when they first set eyes on the raw wikitext of a properly formatted article. And I hear that many editors swear by WP:REFLINKS. — Mr. Stradivarius 05:03, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Just the other day, found Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/August 25 list of 4 help articles that clarifies where to look for help. Don't know if it would qualify to be one of the most powerful though. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 14:40, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: Maybe this can be included in a "10 most useful tips for beginners". The Transhumanist 06:58, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Here's an example of the type of things I'm looking for

Idea:

Throughout your activities on Misplaced Pages, no doubt you've picked up a useful trick or two that few other people know about.

Here's an example of such a trick:

You've just grabbed the page's title to place a link on another page, but now you want to add a section title to it to create a section link, but the copy cache is already full. Instead of making two trips back and forth to the page you wish to add the link to, try this...

...use the search box as a quick-and-dirty edit window:

1. Copy/paste the title into the search box, followed by a "#"
2. Copy/paste the section title after the "#"
3. Enclose in double square brackets and copy/paste the whole string to the page you wish to edit.

The search box is also a handy place to store copy text while you copy/paste something else.

Do you use any interesting or useful tricks or little known but cool tools (for navigating, editing, anything to do with using or improving WP)? If so, please tell... The Transhumanist 23:01, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: I would do it this way:

1. Scroll up to the table of contents, and click on the section you wanted
2. Copy the article title and section from the browser's URL
3. Paste the string in the page you wish to edit, and add the double square brackets

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 00:24, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: Cool, I hadn't thought of that. What other cool tricks do you know? The Transhumanist 00:32, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: You can use CTRL+C and CTRL+V to do the copy and paste. I also have a list of tools I use on my talk page. GoingBatty (talk) 01:37, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: I amended your post - {{button}} is for marking up clickable buttons, keystrokes are marked up with {{keypress}}. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:40, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: You can also use User:Bility/copySectionLink to generate sections links directly. I've made a prettier version on User:Zhaofeng Li/common.js along with other tools I use. Zhaofeng Li 14:41, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Speaking of little-known shortcuts, you may have a need to convert a full URL into a wikilink. See User:Js/urldecoder for that. If you have the script installed, you place the cursor at the end of the URL (in your edit window) and click a button. It converts the URL into a proper wikilink, with square brackets and everything. EdJohnston (talk) 18:19, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

You can also use my very own Template:Urltowiki for that if you don't feel like installing a script. — Mr. Stradivarius 00:07, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

TOTD

I'm in the process of updating the WP:TOTD department's tip collection, as some of the tips have gone obsolete. So I'm looking for useful techniques and tools, that is, tips, to replace them with.

Any leads on the latest and greatest wiki-related programs, extensions, plug-ins, scripts, commands, or methods, would be most appreciated.

So far, I've added the following new tips:

• Misplaced Pages industrial-powered search
• How to make redirects turn green so you can see them

If you spot any errors in them, please let me know. Or edit them directly. Thank you. The Transhumanist 08:16, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Some 2007 stuff might be seriously obsolete. You can ask Help desk or Teahouse regulars what new users would want to see, if they add the TotD-template to their page. Some tricks for the Visual Editor (I don't use it and therefore can't judge it) or the Media Viewer, maybe, because that certainly didn't exist eight years ago. New ways to archive talk pages could be interesting. Or something about user boxes, #babel:-extension, and scribunto. How to get Tech News or Signpost, what's a Village Pump, where are the real help pages, the works. –Be..anyone (talk) 10:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, some things to do with VisualEditor might be nice. It is very useful for basic to intermediate editing, and especially for editing tables. However, any tips relating to VE would have to include information about turning it on, and would also need to be updated in the future when VisualEditor becomes available by default for all users. — This, that and the other (talk) 11:43, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

To summarize:

1. Visual editor
2. Media viewer
3. Archiving talk pages
4. User boxes   (see Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/May 11)
5. #babel:-extension
6. Scibunto
7. Tech news
8. Signpost
9. Village Pump
10. "Real" help pages (MediaWiki manual, etc.)

Thank you for the suggestions. The Transhumanist 16:12, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Tip Suggestion

Advice For New Editors Don't be nervous about editing Misplaced Pages. Misplaced Pages was founded so that everyone can edit and contribute. As long as your are making good-faith edits, you'll be fine. Just be yourself!

Tip Suggestion of May

Do not worry about your own account's own looks. Everybody can edit almost thousands of articles at once, but don't worry about the looks of your profile, this is not Facebook. Give ideas to yourself at people of those around you so that they can know you more better, understand you even further. Give your own compliments to them, and always contribute to the Wiki itself. :) ~Cry (talk) 10:13, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

TOTD for User scripts - can 3 be combined?

The tips for January 20, plus July 20 & October 8 are similar. Wondering if they can be combined? Since I am new to Misplaced Pages and have not used any of these scripts so asking for help here.

January 20 different from July 20, Oct. 8

User Scripts - January 20

You can install user scripts written in JavaScript to add features to your account, and to automate various tasks.

You could write your own scripts. But many user scripts have already been written by Wikipedians, and are ready for you to make use of. To enable these scripts, simply paste them into your vector.js file. (Only logged-in users can install scripts).

Examples of scripts:

wiktLookup – Double-click a word, and go to its definition on Wiktionary. Watchlist sorter – Sorts your watchlist by namespace, and shows the pages for each namespace in alphabetical order. Also adds spacing for further ease of reading. Some of the most popular scripts have become gadgets, which can be enabled simply by checking an option in your preferences.

These next two, very similar / July 20 - User scripts / October 8 – User scripts

User Scripts - July 20

Many different tasks on Misplaced Pages can be automated with user scripts. For example, you can create tabs to automate different vandalism warnings or even perform an AfD nomination.

These scripts can also add a Google search link to your toolbox, and display the current time in a place of your choosing.

Many scripts have been written by Wikipedians, and are ready for you to make use of.

To enable these scripts, simply paste them into your monobook.js Afile.

A number of scripts can be activated by checking a box in Preferences, under the Gadgets tab.

User Scripts - October 8

Many different tasks on Misplaced Pages can be simplified (automated) with user scripts. For example, you can create tabs to automate different vandalism warnings or even perform an AfD nomination.

These scripts can also add a Google search link to your toolbox, and display the current time in a place of your choosing.

Many scripts have been written by Wikipedians, and are ready for you to make use of.

To enable these scripts, simply paste them into your common.js file.

Hoping that an expert editor will be able to solve since this is totally beyond me. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 14:40, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

I think that they could be combined JoeHebda, opening up two new slots for new tips like your wikipedia adventure one and if there are no other proposals, I could come up with one. Again though I just joined and am calling in User:The Transhumanist. Thanks Tortle (talk) 19:13, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Greetings Tortle and User:The Transhumanist After taking a second look at these three: the tip from January 20 is different, so I retitled it to 'User scripts examples'; and did the updates to TOTD Schedule Queue, Tips library, and above January maintenance wikitable. Remaining now are Tips July 20 and October 8 to be somehow merged together into the same tip. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 15:09, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Sounds fine.

Joe, the TOTD department is fairly simple. There are 366 tip pages that get displayed year after year (except the leap year day). Just make sure something good is on each of them, and keep the lists (scheduling queue, library) up to date (like you have been).

You guys are doing good. The Transhumanist 04:25, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: Is this situation handled? If so, I can Archive it. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:05, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Quickly checking the minor edit box

 Done

Here's an idea for a tip: when filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check the minor edit box quickly. —George8211 / T 09:06, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Greetings George8211  – Thank you for this tip idea. After reviewing, I did include it at Help:Minor edit page. And plan to add into our TOTD schedule queue and Tips library. Regards,  JoeHebda  talk  15:36, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

February 13 - Shortcut for minor edit box - Done

Greetings, The following new tip can replace existing (duplicate of August 13) tip: Acronyms and initialisms.

Tip title: Shortcut for minor edit box

When you are done making changes in the edit window, here is a shortcut to tag the article's updates with minor edits. Right after filling in the edit summary, press Tab ↹+Space to check Y mark the minor edit box quickly.

See also: Help:Minor edit

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here.  JoeHebda  talk  19:32, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
* Discussion:

 Done At Tips library, posted to Tips on working faster section.  JoeHebda (talk)  15:38, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

New section - Instructions

Greetings, Today I added the Instructions section above to clarify TOTD maintenance, both for the schedule queue and the Tips library. I intentionally did not sign that new section with the usual tilde as I'm placing the explanation here, and inviting discussion & comments from interested editors. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 14:55, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

One possible way to go about this is to work on one tip per day, to make sure the tip that goes live each day is accurate and up to date. This chore could include properly placing the tip in the library. The Transhumanist 13:34, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Like with the other "of the day" departments, it's nice to have a buffer of entries prepared in advance, so that if you need to take a few days off, plenty of days are still prepped. Then when you get back, you can build the buffer back up again. Thirty days of tips checked and ready for the spotlight makes for a pretty good buffer. The Transhumanist 15:40, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Lightbulb Update

Hi User:JoeHebda and User:The Transhumanist. You guys seem like the only active users involved in the project so I figured I would consult you. I think it is time to update the lightbulb icon and I have two proposals of the template do you like the original,:

On Misplaced Pages, you can look things up by searching or browsing... If you know what topic you want, type it into Misplaced Pages's search box and press ↵ Enter

If you would like to explore Misplaced Pages's coverage, overall, or for a particular subject, browse these pages:

• Portal:Contents/Outlines‍—‌site maps by subject
• Portal:Contents/Categories‍—‌classified index
• Portal:Contents/Portals‍—‌collections of excerpts, by subject

If you would like to edit Misplaced Pages, just click the tab (to use VisualEditor which is a WYSIWYG editor) or click the tab to use the Misplaced Pages text editor. Both tabs are at the top of the desired page or page section.

To create a new article, type the name of the topic in the search box and press ↵ Enter. If a page doesn't already exist with that name, Misplaced Pages will let you create one. Follow the instructions on the screen. As an alternative, the Misplaced Pages Article Wizard helps you through the process of submitting a new article to Misplaced Pages. Redlinks are another way to create new articles. Mouse click on the red link and Misplaced Pages will let you create a new article with that name.

• Read more:
• Help:Searching
• Portal:Contents
• Misplaced Pages:Tutorial

Number 1,:

Tip of the day... "Where to begin?" On Misplaced Pages, you can look things up by searching or browsing... If you know what topic you want, type it into Misplaced Pages's search box and press ↵ Enter If you would like to explore Misplaced Pages's coverage, overall, or for a particular subject, browse these pages: Portal:Contents/Outlines‍—‌site maps by subject Portal:Contents/Categories‍—‌classified index Portal:Contents/Portals‍—‌collections of excerpts, by subject If you would like to edit Misplaced Pages, just click the tab (to use VisualEditor which is a WYSIWYG editor) or click the tab to use the Misplaced Pages text editor. Both tabs are at the top of the desired page or page section. To create a new article, type the name of the topic in the search box and press ↵ Enter. If a page doesn't already exist with that name, Misplaced Pages will let you create one. Follow the instructions on the screen. As an alternative, the Misplaced Pages Article Wizard helps you through the process of submitting a new article to Misplaced Pages. Redlinks are another way to create new articles. Mouse click on the red link and Misplaced Pages will let you create a new article with that name. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Help:Searching Portal:Contents Misplaced Pages:Tutorial To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Misplaced Pages tipster

Or Number 2 more:

Tip of the day... "Where to begin?" On Misplaced Pages, you can look things up by searching or browsing... If you know what topic you want, type it into Misplaced Pages's search box and press ↵ Enter If you would like to explore Misplaced Pages's coverage, overall, or for a particular subject, browse these pages: Portal:Contents/Outlines‍—‌site maps by subject Portal:Contents/Categories‍—‌classified index Portal:Contents/Portals‍—‌collections of excerpts, by subject If you would like to edit Misplaced Pages, just click the tab (to use VisualEditor which is a WYSIWYG editor) or click the tab to use the Misplaced Pages text editor. Both tabs are at the top of the desired page or page section. To create a new article, type the name of the topic in the search box and press ↵ Enter. If a page doesn't already exist with that name, Misplaced Pages will let you create one. Follow the instructions on the screen. As an alternative, the Misplaced Pages Article Wizard helps you through the process of submitting a new article to Misplaced Pages. Redlinks are another way to create new articles. Mouse click on the red link and Misplaced Pages will let you create a new article with that name. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Help:Searching Portal:Contents Misplaced Pages:Tutorial To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Misplaced Pages tipster

Please let me know so I can enact the change. Thanks, Tortle (talk) 19:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Greetings User:Tortle and User:The Transhumanist. A change of the light bulb should get the daily Tips more visibilty. I noticed that both suggested b/w images are larger than present icon. Two things (aren't there always?) - first, over at Commons there are a whole raft of possible icons. To find more, this is the ] Commons search tool, and type in light bulb icon. And secondly, from that list, I really like . If we use the 240px size, people will not think it's a push-button with a link. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 20:09, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

I looked at the icons at commons and they seem outdated and I wanted to go with a modern update and the icon you proposed, if blown up, will be way too pixelated. What would you think if I colored the two icons I suggested yellow like a lightbulb? User:JoeHebda. Thanks Tortle (talk) 20:14, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Actually, there are versions that wont be pixellated but I do feel that it is too busy and the square around the lightbulb makes it detract from the tip. Tortle (talk) 20:15, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Tortle - there is no need to enlarge the icon I suggested above. If you click on the icon shown above (File:Light Bulb Icon.svg) it shows there are six different sizes available none of which are pixelated (blurry). The current lightbulb is 128px X 128px size, although the wikicode might be downsizing (or thumb) it.

My concern is to not make whatever icon used too large. The bigger the icon, it reduces precious space for the Tip text and forces the text further down the page with more text lines.

Note that I fixed the ] Commons search tool above.

Another icon choice might be which I set to 128px in the wikicode & staying with the b/w. With WP being an encyclopedia, I like the idea of something plain. With WP readers around the world, there may be people or places without the newer swirly bulbs vs the traditional bulbs being more universally understood. JoeHebda (talk) 01:06, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

I do like that icon, I actually saw it online and was considering it. Here it is JoeHebda:

Tip of the day... "Where to begin?" On Misplaced Pages, you can look things up by searching or browsing... If you know what topic you want, type it into Misplaced Pages's search box and press ↵ Enter If you would like to explore Misplaced Pages's coverage, overall, or for a particular subject, browse these pages: Portal:Contents/Outlines‍—‌site maps by subject Portal:Contents/Categories‍—‌classified index Portal:Contents/Portals‍—‌collections of excerpts, by subject If you would like to edit Misplaced Pages, just click the tab (to use VisualEditor which is a WYSIWYG editor) or click the tab to use the Misplaced Pages text editor. Both tabs are at the top of the desired page or page section. To create a new article, type the name of the topic in the search box and press ↵ Enter. If a page doesn't already exist with that name, Misplaced Pages will let you create one. Follow the instructions on the screen. As an alternative, the Misplaced Pages Article Wizard helps you through the process of submitting a new article to Misplaced Pages. Redlinks are another way to create new articles. Mouse click on the red link and Misplaced Pages will let you create a new article with that name. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Help:Searching Portal:Contents Misplaced Pages:Tutorial To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Misplaced Pages tipster

Tortle (talk) 01:10, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

I actually do like it once it is in the template much better JoeHebda. The black of mine stood out too much. There are like two other tip of the day templates that are more compact and we can use smaller sizes for those. I have this one above at 125px which seems good. If it looks good to you, Ill update the templates. Tortle (talk) 01:16, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Tortle I agree, the only think I see is the Yellow lightbulb tip above has only 5 lines of text vs. this one shows 6 lines. May need to go to even smaller pixels. Looking at the yellow lightbulb image, it contains a substantial white space surrounding the bulb, vs. this b/w image extends right to the very edges. Maybe something like 100px (just a guess) would be better? JoeHebda (talk) 01:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

JoeHebda, Ill see if I can get it down to 5 lines while keeping a larger size. Im thinking maybe 105-120 bc I know that 100 is a little too small. Ill update within the minute so the template above will auto. update Thanks Tortle (talk) 01:25, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

I changed the size JoeHebda and it takes up the same amount of space while being smaller at least on my device:

Tip of the day... "Where to begin?" On Misplaced Pages, you can look things up by searching or browsing... If you know what topic you want, type it into Misplaced Pages's search box and press ↵ Enter If you would like to explore Misplaced Pages's coverage, overall, or for a particular subject, browse these pages: Portal:Contents/Outlines‍—‌site maps by subject Portal:Contents/Categories‍—‌classified index Portal:Contents/Portals‍—‌collections of excerpts, by subject If you would like to edit Misplaced Pages, just click the tab (to use VisualEditor which is a WYSIWYG editor) or click the tab to use the Misplaced Pages text editor. Both tabs are at the top of the desired page or page section. To create a new article, type the name of the topic in the search box and press ↵ Enter. If a page doesn't already exist with that name, Misplaced Pages will let you create one. Follow the instructions on the screen. As an alternative, the Misplaced Pages Article Wizard helps you through the process of submitting a new article to Misplaced Pages. Redlinks are another way to create new articles. Mouse click on the red link and Misplaced Pages will let you create a new article with that name. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Help:Searching Portal:Contents Misplaced Pages:Tutorial To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Misplaced Pages tipster

Tortle (talk) 01:31, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Tortle Seeing same here. Just a guess, but I'm wondering if it displays different in Sandbox namespace vs. out-there live? I know with web HTML, there are Border & Margin parameters, so might be something in wikicode that needs to be set? JoeHebda (talk) 01:38, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Well there are border and margin parameters in wikicode but they werent included for the yellow bulb. Ill do a couple tests but I dont think that will work. Maybe the text is too long to fit on the rest of the line and has to be on the next and it will resolve itself with tomorrows tip JoeHebda. Thansk Tortle (talk) 01:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Tortle Now seeing 5 lines of text, so should be OK to go-live (and I'm going offline now. Thanks & good-nite). JoeHebda (talk) 01:47, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Its just with today's tip User:JoeHebda. Wht is happening is just with the text.

For example I will still have space on the next line but the following word will be too long to fit on it jsjskfksjkfkdjfjdkkdkj.

So i think that is happening in todays tip with the links somehow. It is not a big problem though and the bulb looks good with other tips. Below, every time you refresh the page, it will show with a new tip.

Another Tip of the moment... Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences Have you tried the Advanced options in your Recent changes user preferences settings? It requires a modern browser to work and is disabled by default. Unlike the normal "recent changes" page, these options can summarize edits to the same page and let you dynamically expand and collapse the list items. For multiple edits to the same page, it also provides a single "changes" link which will show you a view of the differences (diffs) between these combined edits and the last non-recent revision. After changing the Advanced options, the "Recent changes" list takes effect immediately and can be reversed by unchecking any option. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more:Help:Recent changes  m:Help:Recent changes   To add this template to your user page, use {{Totd-random}}. Become a Misplaced Pages tipster

Ill do the change now, goodnight. Thanks, Tortle (talk) 01:50, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Done

Greetings Tortle, Had a chance to re-think overnight about the Lightbulb Icon sizing & now have the answer, really easy answer. Without being Logged-In, when I go to ] page, the Lightbulb is a nice size (smaller). After Loggin, since I'm using Skin - Modern and Zoom of 133 percent, the lightbulb is larger. So for the majority of Misplaced Pages non-editors the Lightbulb is an OK size.  Done Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 14:40, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Lightbulb metaphor

"What a bright idea!"

Keep up the good work, guys. The Transhumanist 13:35, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

The new icon blended in perfectly at Help:Contents. Excellent choice of icon. The Transhumanist 19:59, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Update: two more TOTD templates

On Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day page, after I added/updated the Tip templates section, I checked each of those templates for the new lightbulb. Templates Totd b and Tip of the day had the yellow lightbulb, so I updated those. Learning something new every day :-) JoeHebda (talk) 13:38, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: To cater to different tastes, a variety of styles is nice. After all, the various templates are for users to choose from to post on their user pages. The Transhumanist 15:58, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Obsolete tips that need to be replaced

@JoeHebda: @Tortle:

• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 11 (Another way to search Misplaced Pages with Google)
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 18 (Misplaced Pages-specific searching with Google)

Misplaced Pages's search engine has been improved immensely since these tips were written, and so there is little reason to use google to search Misplaced Pages. Replacing these with Misplaced Pages search tips would be nice. The Transhumanist 04:50, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist:

@Tortle:

At the TOTD Schedule Queue, these are the Google search tips:

• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 7 – How to provide a link to a specific Google Search
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 11 – Another way to search Misplaced Pages with Google

• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 18 – Misplaced Pages-specific searching with Google
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/October 6 – Misplaced Pages-specific searching with Google

• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 22 – When and how to exclude Misplaced Pages from your Google search
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/August 22 – When and how to exclude Misplaced Pages from your Google search

• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/August 11 – Ways to search Misplaced Pages with Google
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/August 30 – Google search link
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 16 – Google Toolbar Current Site Search Button
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 18 – How to provide a Google search in a link

Wondering if all of these can or should be removed? JoeHebda (talk) 17:43, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: I hadn't tried google for searching WP in awhile, so I thought it would be a good idea to test the assertion I made above. It seems google has been improving. So, I used WP:LINKY to cycle through the tips above, tip by tip. Here are my current thoughts:

• Feb 7 – useful in AfD notability discussions or to show the most common version of a title phrase. Keep.
• Feb 11 – google returned more relevant results when I entered List of topics. I was surprised. Keep.
• Feb 18 – google has different features, and different results. And different settings. Therefore, having two search engines are better than one. Keep.
• Oct 6 – redundant. Keep or replace.
• Feb 22 – the tip explains when it is useful. Keep.
• Aug 22 – I tried this by entering Misplaced Pages -wiki, and it seems to work! Keep.
• Aug 11 – very cool. Tell's how to search Misplaced Pages using google via WP's search box and by WP internal link. Keep.
• Aug 30 – google search boxes are ubiquitous these days (in firefox, etc.). So there is little or no need for a general link to google like this. This tip is obsolete. Replacing it wouln't hurt.
• Nov16 – you are on your own here. I don't use the Google Toolbar. Keep?
• Nov 18 – general google search via internal WP link. Useful for discussions, and for predefining entire search sessions (can use WP:LINKY to open all the searches in tabs all at once). Very powerful. Keep.

I hope these observations help. I refined (edited) the tips as I went. The Transhumanist 18:46, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Should we have a Wiki2 tip?

https://wiki2.org/

The Transhumanist 06:25, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

* Discuss

Greetings Checkingfax and The Transhumanist – After visiting this website, here are my thoughts:

1. Wiki2 does provide a very visual & interesting GUI (Graphical User Interface) which may be useful for better viewing on table and smartphone devices as well as desktop & laptop PCs.
2. I did find this wording at the page bottom: Misplaced Pages® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
3. On IXquick (my fav search engine) WIKI 2 results show a listing for WIKI 2. Misplaced Pages Republished.
4. Also found this entry WIKI 2 may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes.

• Not include – Mainly because WIKI2 is not directly affiliated with Misplaced Pages, so it would be like External links in an article.  JoeHebda (talk)  17:08, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
• Not include – Per Joe. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 19:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Bird's eye view

@JoeHebda: Do you have all of the tips watchlisted?

 Done – Yes, watching all, plus Tips library as well.  JoeHebda (talk)  16:51, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

If not, the easiest way I know of to add them is to make a list of them using WP:AWB (gathering links from the totd page using links on page in AWB's list maker), and then pasting the list into your raw watchlist. The Transhumanist 16:44, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Being that I'm on old DOS dog & like to simplify, I did the flip through URLs to watchlist only January Tips. Plus watchlist for Tips I've updated. The reason being that January is the only month completed for Tip maintenance section above. As each month is done, I would watchlist it. At least that is the plan... JoeHebda (talk) 00:44, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: What about watching for vandalism, and keeping an eye on what other editors are doing to the tip collection? (Such as in the case a tip is replaced, but they forget to update the title in the scheduling queue or at the tip library. Or they make a tip incomprehensible or erroneous?). Just some thoughts.

DOS dog. Hehehe, you're showing your age.  :)  Yep, thank the stars for DOSBox. I wish someone would figure out how to make those legacy programs work on Unicode data. Too bad they have to rewrite them from scratch. The Transhumanist 02:33, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

(September 28) updated Tip: 'Your customizable Misplaced Pages navigation hub'

 Fixed  – * Discuss

Greetings, Today for this tip, Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/September 28 I changed the keystroke instructions from Alt-shift-(period) to Alt-(period). The original instructions did not work, no brower response. The revised instructions change the browser window to the editor's user page. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 17:58, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: I just tried Alt+Shift+period and my userpage came up, but when I tried Alt+period nothing happened. I am using Pale Moon which is a sister browser to Firefox. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:50, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Greetings Checkingfax} (and The Transhumanist), Being that I'm not a very good typist, on this laptop I often hit the "CapsLock" key & it throws me off. Wondering if that could be happening with your keyboard? Secondly, can you try the previous suggestion of Alt-shift-(period) & see if that works? And BTW, yes at one time I also used Pale Moon browser, and am now switched to "Chromodo" a clone of chrome & like it the best of all, after tweaking & add-ons of course. :-) Regards,  JoeHebda  talk  17:54, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, @JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: Alt+period no-go on Firefox, but Alt+Shift+period opens my User page. CAPS LOCK is off Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:57, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

For this Sept. 28 tip, I added a "Read more" link to Misplaced Pages:Keyboard shortcuts. On that shortcut page, at the Older browsers bar, it shows that for Firefox, it might work if you use the 'Control key (instead of Alt). Please try this & let me know if it works. Thanks.  JoeHebda  talk  18:05, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done Fixed the wording. Now it is accurate. The Transhumanist 00:04, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, @JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: I have Firefox v. 43.0.4 which is the latest and updated. No-go with Ctrl+period nor with Ctrl+Shift+period. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:00, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Greetings Checkingfax, On my browser (Chromodo) I have a "Misplaced Pages Speedup extension" installed. For your Pale Moon browser, wondering if there might be an add-on or extension for Misplaced Pages? Regards,  JoeHebda  talk  12:57, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Superfluous tip?

 Done

Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 1 – How to enable right-click section editing

I don't know how it is for others, but the edit button sits right next to each subheading, making this tip of no added benefit. Is that the same for you? The Transhumanist 20:38, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

|@The Transhumanist: Keeping in mind the above tip about web accessibility, I think this Preference is extremely helpful for Editors that may be visually impaired, and those with difficulty moving a mouse/pointing device. Before answering this message, I tried this option on my browser (Chromodo) & it really does help, especially when section title is rather long & Edit button is way over there on the right. Guess I will leave this Pref. turned ON. My laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad) is rather touch pad sensitive (stupid Win7) & I'm constantly parking mouse out of WP edit window so cursor is not jumping around where I don't want it to be.

At WP:Tips library, this Nov.1 tip is listed under Tips on editing and might be better placed at the Tips on working faster section instead.

My recommendation would be to improve Nov. 1 tip by adding a new first sentence, relating to web accessibility and easier and faster editing. JoeHebda (talk) 23:30, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Interesting. I'm glad I asked. :) The Transhumanist 00:24, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Obsolete/erroneous tips for November

 Done Using WP:LINKY and Firefox's Ctrl+W hot key to cycle through the links in the tip scheduling queue, I came across the following tips that need to be replaced:

• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 2 – Gain feedback on your editing from other editors
  • Misplaced Pages:Editor review is inactive
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 4 – How to disable the section edit links
  • I can't find this in Preferences anywhere. I don't think it exists anymore.
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 10 – Search Misplaced Pages with Lycos
  • no longer applies. Link in tip is dead. Instructions are erroneous.
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 12 – Making the edit summary input field larger
  • this one was written when monobook was the default skin.
• Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 21 – Viewing Persondata
  • deprecated as of May 26, 2015

Those are all I could find in November. The Transhumanist 03:58, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist and Tortle: Wondering if October tips has been checked? I will be away from computer until this afternoon but wanted to ask this before leaving. And I do have a small list of new tip ideas waiting in the wings to be written. Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 12:49, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

I have not checked October. I figured you would be working on that. I did November to help with your safety buffer before tips go live. The Transhumanist 13:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: ctrl+W closes the active window in Firefox. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:26, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Tip of the day/November 2

 Done

Current tip name = Gain feedback on your editing from other editors

Recommendation: Rewrite this tip, changing title to Noticeboards to request assistance and ask questions

Pull this tip's content from Misplaced Pages:Noticeboards lead section. For example:

Noticeboards on Misplaced Pages are pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual noticeboard. They are to be used for specific problems that editors encounter in writing and maintaining Misplaced Pages articles.

Posting a message to a noticeboard can also be an appropriate early step in resolving disputes on Misplaced Pages. Noticeboards are best used for simple and urgent matters. If an editor needs a more complex response, and is willing to wait for it, the WP:Requests for comment process may be more suitable.

If you want feedback on an article that you have planned, or that you have recently made major changes to, try the Teahouse or help desk. If you have a question about an encyclopedic subject, leave a note for the Misplaced Pages:Reference desk.

If you need general help with creating and editing articles on Misplaced Pages, try Misplaced Pages:Questions or Misplaced Pages:Help desk. New editors may find the WP:New contributors' help page a valuable resource.

Read more: Misplaced Pages:Noticeboards

Discussion for consensus: If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please feel free to communicate here. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. JoeHebda (talk) 03:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: You should feel free to edit tips directly, including replacing them. Then the tip can be modified and improved in place. This discussion method works too, but the obsolete tip remains in place for as long as the discussion takes.

That being said, about half of the above tip is about noticeboards. Maybe streamline it down:

Noticeboards are for reporting problems that editors encounter in writing and maintaining Misplaced Pages articles. They are monitored by administrators or experienced editors.

For a list of noticeboards, see Template:Noticeboard links.

Noticeboards are best used for simple and urgent matters. Posting a message to a noticeboard can also be an appropriate early step in resolving disputes on Misplaced Pages.

Read more: Misplaced Pages:Noticeboards

How's that? The Transhumanist 00:32, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done Posted: 18:54, 27 September 2015‎ The Transhumanist

Thank you! JoeHebda (talk) 19:28, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done

Tip of the day/November 4

 Done

Current tip name = How to disable the section edit links

Recommendation: replace with new tip below.

Tip title: Help reduce the Misplaced Pages backlog

There are a number of tasks that should be done to improve Misplaced Pages. First of all, while reading any article, and you notice something in the article that can be improved, if you are not able to cleanup the article immediately, then feel free to add the necessary cleanup templates. Template messages may be added to articles needing a cleanup.

Articles with these templates will appear in the backlog, and help other editors to easily identify the needed changes. Some editors help to reduce the backlog by specializing in certain specific types of cleanup and are experts for these types of improvements.

The Misplaced Pages backlog page lists important tasks that should be done and invites editors to help.

Read more: Category:Misplaced Pages backlog

Discussion for consensus: If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please feel free to communicate here. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. JoeHebda (talk) 03:45, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

This one hits a sore spot. I feel the thing that needs to be cleaned up the most are the tags themselves. Misplaced Pages is ridden with tag cruft. The above tip encourages adding more tags, which increases tag cruft, and adds to the backlog rather than reduces it!

How about this:

There are many chores that need to be done to maintain Misplaced Pages, from fixing typos, to adding citations, to removing dead external links. And many many more.

There is a tremendous backlog on all the types of chores, which can be found on Misplaced Pages's backlog page.

Please help!

Read more: Category:Misplaced Pages backlog

Misplaced Pages:Job Center

 Done posted: 18:40, 27 September 2015‎ The Transhumanist

Also, copy & paste Nov. 4 tip into August 4.

Updated Aug. 4 tip title at TOTD Schedule Queue

Changed Aug. 4 date to Nov. 4 at Tips library

Thanks! JoeHebda (talk) 19:45, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done

Tip of the day/November 10

 Done

Current tip name = How to search Misplaced Pages with Lycos

Recommendation: replace with new tip below, discussed above at (November 10) Lycos tip is no longer applicable.

Tip title: Editing articles for web accessibility

Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers.

While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Misplaced Pages web accessible. All users, regardless of disability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Misplaced Pages easily.

The Accessibility section of Misplaced Pages's Manual of Style is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled or otherwise disadvantaged users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page.

Read more: Misplaced Pages:Accessibility dos and don'ts

Discussion for consensus: If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please feel free to communicate here. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. JoeHebda (talk) 12:26, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

It looks ready to go. The Transhumanist 01:27, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done Posted: 15:55, 27 September 2015

Thanks! JoeHebda (talk) 20:03, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done

Tip of the day/November 12

 Done

@The Transhumanist:

Current tip name = Making the edit summary input field larger

Recommendation: replace with new tip below.

Tip title: Giving editor awards

Whether an editor collaborates with a team of editors on a WikiProject or is improving articles independently, an editor can give a Misplaced Pages award (often a barnstar) to another deserving editor.

Editors may reward vigorous Misplaced Pages contributors for their hard work and due diligence by awarding them a fitting barnstar, or other award. In additional to these virtual awards, editors may nominate someone to receive a gift, in the mail, from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Read more: Misplaced Pages awards
WikiProject Misplaced Pages Awards

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please feel free to communicate here. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 20:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done This replacement tip is now posted at TOTD Schedule Queue, and at Tips library.

JoeHebda (talk) 21:03, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done

Tip of the day/November 21

 Done

Current tip name = Viewing Persondata

Recommendation: replace with new tip below.

Tip title: Welcome to Misplaced Pages!

As a new editor you may be wondering, "How can I help?" and be overwhelmed by the extent and scope of the entire Misplaced Pages project.

An introduction for new contributors is available at Help:Getting started which provides a self-guided roadmap of tutorials, introductions, training topics and other resources allowing you to learn more about how you can help improve Misplaced Pages.

Read more: Contributing to Misplaced Pages

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please feel free to communicate here. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. JoeHebda (talk) 21:08, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist and Tortle:

ω Awaiting feedback & discussion on above TOTD.

Thank you JoeHebda (talk) 11:12, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Added link (to title). The Transhumanist 01:32, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!

 Done This replacement tip is now posted at TOTD Schedule Queue, and at Tips library. JoeHebda (talk) 15:04, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 Done

(February 29) issue: Next tip goes to March 2.

 Done Greetings @Tortle and The Transhumanist: For Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 29, when I click on Next tip, it loads March 2 tip instead of March 1. I looked at the wikicode & it's beyond anything that I can understand.

It is possible that because of Feb. 29 being a leap day it might need something special? Maybe a hard-coded wikilink to force March 1:

]

In addition, whenever there is a leap year, how does Feb. 28 Tip know to use Feb. 29 and not skip fwd to March 1?

Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 21:27, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

The calendar incrementation is handled by the software. Mathematically speaking, the 29th day of February in 2015 is March 1st. That's probably why you are getting March 2 - in terms of the correct next numerical day of the year, March 2 it is correct. Try the same thing on January 1st, 2016, and it will probably show March 1. The Transhumanist 23:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Greetings to PrimeHunter (PrimeHunter—The Transhumanist—JoeHebda) Re: Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 29: Can you update the {{totd nav}} template so it jumps to March 1 after February 29 instead of jumping from February 29 to March 2? Thank you. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:40, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Done with code to bypass the behaviour of #time. It's only relevant when you somehow end up on February 29 in a non-leap year, e.g. by using {{Totd-random}}. In non-leap years, "Next" goes from February 28 to March 1. In leap years it goes from February 28 to February 29 to March 1. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:16, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

(March 30) - Working on the Main Page = lengthy

Greetings, Wonder if the Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/March 30 tip can be divided into two? I noticed this tip is quite long. Does it make sense to make two seperate tips?

1. Main Page departments (top half of current tip)
2. Main Page schedule queues (bottom of current tip)

Discussion for consensus:

Please feel free to communicate feedback here. Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 23:45, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: Is this still up in the air? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

TOTD Archives

Greetings, This talk page is getting somewhat lengthy & I'm thinking that by/after Dec. 31 might be a good time to create another archive (Archive 6). For now, wondering if it would be worthwhile to move all of the Archive 1 to Archive 5 subpages into a single subpage (Archives)? Since I have not done any archiving, asking for advice please. JoeHebda (talk) 16:10, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
* Discussion

@JoeHebda: There are a number of ways to do archiving. They are covered at Help:Archiving a talk page.

Cutting and pasting existing archive pages into a single page is not advisable for a couple reasons:

1. it creates a page that is too cumbersome for some readers (which is why we archive in the first place), and...
2. it unnecessarily disconnects the archive content from its edit histories (assuming the move/rename method of archiving was used).

There are some other things you can do. If you want a page with all the archives on it, you can transclude them like this:

{{Misplaced Pages talk:Tip of the day/Archive 1}}

{{Misplaced Pages talk:Tip of the day/Archive 2}}

{{Misplaced Pages talk:Tip of the day/Archive 3}}

{{Misplaced Pages talk:Tip of the day/Archive 4}}

{{Misplaced Pages talk:Tip of the day/Archive 5}}

To see how well this works, see Misplaced Pages talk:Tip of the day/Sandbox.

Note that this department uses the automated template {{archivebox}} to display links to standard numbered archive pages. It is used like this:

{{archivebox|auto=yes|search=yes}}

By the way, the way I handle archives on my user talk page is with a menu subpage. Click on it to see the menu:

Archives

Well, that is all I know off the top of my head about archiving. I hope this has been useful advice. The Transhumanist 00:11, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: I reworked the Archive script so we can use 1CA (One Click Archiver). It is very easy to use once you install 1CA. I started an Archive-6 and have been carefully archiving this page so it is not so topheavy. I hope you like it. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 05:34, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Proposal: add Tips library to TOTD templates

Greetings: Now that the Tips library improvements are well under way, the nine TOTD templates can each have the following added to the template footer, directing tip readers to the library.

* Discussion

If there should be alternate wording, or better placement suggestions, please respond here. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 20:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

 Done posted to TOTD templates. JoeHebda (talk) 15:24, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: The ndash confuses me a bit – like the sentence is supposed to continue instead of being separated. Can we switch to a pipe or a bold bullet? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 05:37, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

A lightbulb went off

I just discovered a way to float the tip at the bottom of a page...

... by including it anywhere on the page as a ref, like so:

<ref>{{totd}}</ref> The Transhumanist 23:13, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Deprecated HTML markup

JoeHebda and others re: Deprecated HTML markup. Since <big>...</big> is obsolete, this template {{big}} may be used as a replacement for presentation markup. If you click on the blue linked word big you can see the other related templates like {{huge}} which is 180% of standard size while big is only 120% of standard size. There is also small, etc.

A caveat: The big, huge, etc. templates will not function outside of a {{center}} template, so the big or huge, etc. templates must be nested inside of the center template. Right now we have the HTML big tags outside of the {{center}} templates.

I tried huge on today's template and it looks pretty good, IMHO. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:29, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax So an example would be like this:

The Misplaced Pages Adventure!

And I found the Category, Misplaced Pages XHTML tag-replacing templates for even more.

Also wondering why the {{br}} redirects to Template:Clear?

In addition, should Misplaced Pages:Line-break handling be updated to at least have a lead notice about the Deprecated HTML markup?

Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 12:56, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

JoeHebda, I'm heading out for some winery tours with my visiting Cousin so I'll check that later. I'm not liking {{br}} because it behaves more like a <p> HTML tag than like a true br tag. Did you notice how much extra white space the templated version of br throws in? Might be a full extra line break. Haven't dug in yet to find out. Nice work finding the extra templates and documentation. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 18:44, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

JoeHebda, My Cousin is running late so I dug in: The template to replace HTML br is {{break}}. There is no shorthand for it. One cool feature is you can do, for example, a {{break|5}} which will perform five line breaks. I think the limit is 5.

As for {{br}} that is a redirect to {{clear}} which I do not agree with. I think template br should redirect to template break instead of to template clear. Clear has three shortcuts: {{-}}, {{br}} and {{clr}} IIRC. Using br as a redirect to clear makes no logical sense to me, but now I understand why template br was behaving more like an HTML tag p. So if we want a line break only, we should use template {{break}}. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 19:31, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax Today, for TOTD - November 11 at Read more, I changed the break template back to br template because it is throwing a blank line between first & second read-mores. Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 12:41, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax - FYI I changed the {{br}} template to {{clear}} & that seems to work. It has the same effect as the br without using br. JoeHebda (talk) 13:51, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

JoeHebda, {{br}} and {{clear}} both pull up the parent template which is {{clear}}. If you want to perform a <br> you need to use the template {{break}} which is equivalent but more powerful than the HTML br tag. I also created a shortcut to {{break}} called {{brk}} so you can use either to perform a br. You can use them with a pipe too if you want up to five line breaks. Your implementation of these templates looks much more tidy than the previous HTML and style tags. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:12, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

What about a br tip? Are you going to write one? :) The Transhumanist 21:42, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax - Just to clarify: for the January 1 tip, I changed {{brk}} to {{clear}} at the Read more. Using {{brk}} or {{break}} throws a blank line between Read more when more than one line is needed. {{clear}} or {{br}} works good and should be used. Not sure if this discussion is complete? Might be too soon for a br tip. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 00:20, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

The Transhumanist and Checkingfax - found the stack template which may be a better solution. Check the update at TOTD for January 1 and January 6.

{{stack| float=right |1=Read more: ''']'''{{spaces|2}} |2=''']'''{{snds}}''']'''{{spaces|2}}}}

Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 03:39, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist:, I think this would work a wee bit better:
{{stack| float=right |1=Read more: |2=''']'''{{spaces|2}} |3=''']'''{{snds}}''']'''{{spaces|2}}}}{{clear}}

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

 Done - all TOTD now updated. JoeHebda (talk) 01:48, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

TOTD invite example

Greetings @The Transhumanist, Tortle, and Checkingfax: - Recently on my talk page, I received an invite to a WikiProject Notre Dame, which I did decline. However, it is a very nice visual and was wondering if we could make something like this for TOTD? Would it help build up more interest? JoeHebda (talk) 19:07, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Wow, Notre Dame provides two ideas there. One, an invite. And two, a greeting for newcomers. I think both are great ideas, and while they go well together, each may have even more impact in a version of its own. Imagine a greeting to newcomers that included the daily tip (one of the {{totd}} templates) as a welcoming gift.

An invite would also be utterly cool, and is another nice context in which to provide the {{totd}} templates directly to users on their talk pages. In the accompanying message, we could emphasize that we are looking for cool tricks on using and editing Misplaced Pages in faster and more powerful ways, and invite them to share their methods. In addition to being posted on user talk pages, it could be adapted to posting on the help desk, village pump:technical, and so on.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Whatever you decide to do, I'm sure you will be creative, and you have my full support. The Transhumanist 20:45, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

• Support – {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:58, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

How...

...can we find power users so we can invite them here to share their cool tips? The Transhumanist 20:50, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

The Transhumanist - First thoughts would be Teahouse hosts and people at the Help WikiProject. From both there may be power users. Right now, I'm dividing my time between TOTD and doing article assessments on another WP. Starting week of Nov. 23, I will have limited availability for X number of weeks (partly why I'm pushing to get more stuff done ahead of time). JoeHebda (talk) 21:45, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Where else could the TOTD be posted?

Currently, the TOTD is presented on the main help page, the community portal page, the help menu page, at Misplaced Pages:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Misplaced Pages, and many users have posted it on their user page. It is also presented at Misplaced Pages:User page design center/Decor.

I wonder if the Help Desk would go for posting it as a permanent feature on the Help Desk page... The Transhumanist 20:38, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

I've been adding the tip template to the Welcoming Committee's welcome notices. The Transhumanist 02:14, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

I've just added {{right|{{totd3}}}} to the tip of the day section at Misplaced Pages:User page design center/Decor. The Transhumanist 02:14, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Ooh: links

Open

We could linkify the word "tip" on help pages (as ]).

I just linkified it at Misplaced Pages:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Misplaced Pages/Intro. :) The Transhumanist 21:04, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Another way to transclude the totd

Open

This is how it is transcluded at Misplaced Pages:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Misplaced Pages

{{Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}}}

Have fun. The Transhumanist 21:14, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

The Transhumanist - wondering why there is an Edit option there? Opens up entire TOTD page including the Job Schedule Queue for editing. Would just a View option be better? Or no option at all, just showing the TODT? Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 00:36, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

This page was transcluded: Misplaced Pages:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Misplaced Pages/box-header The Transhumanist 12:12, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunate text wrapping

I use {{totd b}} to serve TOTD to my User page. The problem is the Prior tip – Next tip line wraps on to two lines. See screenshot (circled in red):
http://i68.tinypic.com/2h6zf2g.jpg

So I see:
Prior Read more:
tip – Next tip

instead of: Prior tip – Next tip Read more:

I'm going to go over and tweak tonight's tip so it looks right on my User page. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 02:53, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Greetings Checkingfax - just a thought, you might like to try {{right|{{totd3}}}} like above or {{totd CP}} which is what I use on my talk page. Another option... Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 15:33, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Greetings Checkingfax and The Transhumanist - I have a solution in mind for the Prior tip/Next tip navigation that will more closely resemble other WP pages. When I removed the br brk and variations it is to reduce vertical length of the tips using up valuable display realestate. At the time I had no idea that removal would cause this issue. While I am working up this different navigation I would ask to refrain from adding that clear as it will likely not be part of the new nav. It is okay to leave those few clears out there for now. Thanks. JoeHebda (talk) 19:25, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

See Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/January 2 for an example of clickable buttons. Cheers! JoeHebda (talk) 20:30, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist:, OK, will do.

FYI: it is confusing but {{br}} and {{brk}} are not the same command. br is a template shortcut to template {{clear}} and brk is a template shortcut to template {{break}}.

The template "Clear" is to prevent images or templates, etc. from bleeding beyond headings, etc.

The template "Break" functions exactly like the HTML tag <br /> which is a self-closing single line break only. Neither template {{break}} nor its identically functioning template shortcut {{brk}} will clear an image like template {{clear}} or its identically functioning template shortcut {{br}} will. Bonus tip: you can add a number to template "Break" to indicate the number of line breaks you want, for example: {{brk|6}} or {{break|6}} will perform 6 line breaks in a row. PS: I created the template shortcut brk because the template shortcut br confused me

I will check out the clickable buttons in a minute. Thanks for the tip on the other TOTD layouts. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 22:20, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: OK, I checked out the "clickable buttons" on Jan 1 tip. Very snappy. Are there any accessibility or browser issues to worry about? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 02:02, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax and The Transhumanist - Is there a BOT that could read through entire TOTD schedule queue (all 366 days) and do this update for us? After countless hours (and fighting boredom) making that last Stack - Read more update, a BOT update would be great! I recall seeing an article about requesting a BOT. Wonder if there is an BOT existing where we could feed two parameters: wikicode to add and wikicode to delete, or same but processed in two passes instead of one... This is something I have no WP experience with although I have used mainframe data patching tools previously (several lifetimes ago). JoeHebda (talk) 12:24, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Add this wikicode before stack | float = right wikicode

{{stack|float=left |1={{Clickable button 2|{{day-1|{{SUBPAGENAME}}|Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/|}}|Prior tip}}{{snds}}{{Clickable button 2|{{day+1|{{SUBPAGENAME}}|Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/|}}|Next tip}} }}

At noinclude, remove this wikicode

] - ]

JoeHebda (talk) 12:39, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

JoeHebda, the tool you need is WP:AWB. It's a semi-automatic editor designed for search/replace on batches of pages. The Transhumanist 21:21, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist:This is the tip for the 9th (tomorrow). It renders properly in its directory: https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Tip_of_the_day/December_9

The clickable buttons aren't working once the tip is encapsulated in a display template.

RAW TIP:

When you are done editing, you do not have to scroll or click to summarize your edits, nor to Preview or Save the article.

You can jump to the Edit summary box by pressing the Tab ↹ key.

To preview the article, press Alt+⇧ Shift+p.

To save the article, press Alt+⇧ Shift+s or press ↵ Enter when the cursor is in the Edit summary box.

To see the changes you have made so far, press Alt+⇧ Shift+v.

ENCAPSULATED IN TEMPLATE {{totd-tomorrow}}:

Please proofread the daily tip... It's displayed below one day early. Some tips are obsolete. So we need new tips too. Please share your best tips and tip ideas at the Tip of the day department. edit Tomorrow's tip of the day... Article development Newly created articles are checked for obvious problems by members of the New pages patrol. These editors collaborate to identify articles which do not meet the criteria for inclusion and/or to tag them for any glaring issues that need attention. Article classification codes are assigned (on the article's talk page) based on an assessment of the article's quality. The assessment class codes may be updated by any contributor as the article is improved. Typically, an article may begin with a Stub-class or Start-class code and be upgraded to C-class, then B-class as the article becomes more complete. Next, an article might be submitted to the peer review process to receive ideas and critical feedback from other editors. Upon successful completion of the peer review, an article might then be nominated for GA-Class (Good Article) status. At each step, the nominator is expected to implement the feedback they receive. Articles achieving GA status are then potential candidates for FA-Class (Featured Article) status. Examples of featured articles are viewable daily at Misplaced Pages's Main Page. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more:Misplaced Pages:Article development  An example of article evolution   Become a Misplaced Pages tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: TOTD tomorrow is no longer displaying the RAW tip. It only displays a link to the RAW tip now. PS: Just noticed it is not displaying the previous/next links either. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 05:56, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 12:25, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax and The Transhumanist Sorry, this is way mbeyond me. I just started on WP about April 2014, don't know what encapsulated means. Could this be solved over at Village pump-Technical? In the past, they helped me solve few issues. Problem = why clickablebutton works okay as a standalone tip but not in a template. Second question: is this error only in the totd-tomorrow template? Or in all the templates? Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 17:03, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Conjoining three tips in to one

Open

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: There are three tips on the same topic that could be modified: Signature Customization:

1. Custom signatures – Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/June 30
2. Advanced signatures – Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/November 6
3. How to customize your signature – Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/December 5

I propose melding the three in to one unified content (their content differs), renaming two of them the same, and then inserting my proposed tip to replace the empty 3rd slot. Or, I can take the simple route and take the slot of an already cloned/duplicated tip. Thoughts? I'll work on unifying the three in to one content today and you folks can refine it.

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: I conjoined the three versions of the signature-enhancement-tips in to one tip but the tip is too big. Please edit it here: User:Checkingfax/sandbox (edit the "hybrid" version). Cheers! Maybe some of the extra detail could be folded in to Misplaced Pages:Signatures.{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 06:55, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/Alphabetical list of tips

 Done

Just created this.

First I copied the tip schedule to the new page

Then I used regex in wp:WikEd to switch the order of data in each entry like this:

Search: \* (\\]) – (.*)

Replace: $2 – $1

($N refers to the nth parens set, that is to the data between the parentheses of the nth pair of parentheses)

(a period refers to any charachter, and a period followed by an asterisk means all charachters up to the next character specified in the search string - regex is set to non-greedy in WikEd)

(the backslash is the escape character, so when placed in front of a special regex character, that character is treated as the actual character. So \* means just an asterisk)

Then I sorted the list by selecting the whole list and clicking on WikEd's alphasort button.

I hope you find it useful. The Transhumanist 18:55, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

P.S.: Regex is very powerful. I highly recommend it.

The alphabetical list is awesome and learning how you sorted it quickly was awesome too. So clever. I think the alphabetized list page should transclude to the Project page, below the chronological list. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 00:41, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: Very spiffy and helpful. I was bold and transcluded it so folks don't get lost venturing over to the actual page. I put it below the chronological version. I hope you like it. It was easy. Can you put regex arguments within a table or list? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 01:08, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

@Checkingfax and The Transhumanist: Thanks for the alpha list, very practical! Does this mean that whenever a tip title is changed (replacing an existing tip) on the Chrono list (which used to be the TOTD Schedule Queue) it will automatically update on the alpha list? If yes, that's great.

BTW, I'm still on restricted internet access for at least another 4 weeks, so I'm not able to do as much as previously, and there may be a delay in my responding. Happy to see continuing improvements! :-) Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 16:18, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Nope, not automatic. Just make a new list using the above procedure every month or so. The Transhumanist 21:22, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: I have refined and updated the TOTD landing page. I hope you like it. I also went through all the lists and expanded contracted words in title names (don't → do not, etc.). Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Adding TEST display template to each RAW template

Idea: @JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: I think each RAW daily tip template should display a dressed template below it when you hit Preview or Save (in the documentation section). It would be a <noinclude> feature for testing functionality and format before saving a template. It would have a static date in it instead of a dynamic date. I might be smart enough to figure it out on my own. We shall see. Although, a smart version of this would be a single, dynamic template that would sense the date of the tip template it was displaying. Instead of having to paste the entire code in to the 366 tip templates. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:49, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

@Checkingfax: The previous/next links are needed in the tips themselves, so that when you are on one of those tip pages, you can go to the previous or next tip! The Transhumanist 03:53, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

GTG, will catch ya later. The Transhumanist 04:06, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: For the meantime I quickly created a tip display template and added it to the display template gallery called {{totd-static}} (based on {{totd}}) where you can edit the display template, insert/save a static date, and test the RAW tip before you save the RAW tip. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 02:10, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

(February 5) - Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

Idea: @JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: This would replace the tip: In conflicts, reach consensus – February 5

Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

The freenode network‍—‌irc.freenode.net‍—‌has chat rooms dedicated to Misplaced Pages 24 hours a day, in which Wikipedians can engage in real-time discussions with each other. Many Wikipedians have IRC chatting open in one window and hop back and forth between it and other windows in which they are working on Misplaced Pages.

You can set your computer to make a sound or your browser tab to blink when you have IRC open and somebody is replying to you. Users with a "+" sign next to their nickname are IRC helpers.

See more:
m:IRC/Channels  
Misplaced Pages:IRC  

Misplaced Pages:IRC/Tutorial  

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:21, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

• Discuss:

Wondering if this Feb. 5 tip can be installed? I do not do IRC so I have no feedback to offer. Only ce I did is for second paragraph to be an easier read. Regards,  JoeHebda  talk  15:09, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

ω Awaiting  – Checkingfax and The Transhumanist, Should we ask for Expert help on this one? Regards,  JoeHebda (talk)  16:32, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, @JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: I have used IRC quite a few times. Try it, Joe. Just click on a link from this list, enter a username on the fly, check off the CAPTCHA box, hit connect, enter your question at the bottom of the window, hit enter and wait for a reply. IRC will blink in your URL tab when you get a reply. To the right of the IRC window will be a list of who is logged in. Some of the rooms move pretty slow even if populated. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 19:59, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

* Awaiting – February 5 is approaching. @Checkingfax and The Transhumanist: If there is no further discussion, would it be okay to go-live?  JoeHebda (talk)  20:03, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Approved – Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:26, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Idea for new tip: Article banner templates

 Done Idea:

Greetings, Today at Misplaced Pages:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 427#WIP_Banner is an interesting discussion about tagging an article with In use and Under construction templates. Have not had a chance to writeup a draft yet but wanted to capture the moment here. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 19:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: Great idea, Joe. When you're drafting it be sure to point out that Misplaced Pages does not use under-construction banners for long-term initial use. New articles are left in the Draft namespace until they are ready for primetime. Under-construction and in-use are intended for subsequent tune-ups. Maybe throw in a mention of the {{stub}} templates (along with their switches) that can be used for articles still needing plumping up. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 19:38, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

(January 16) - Article banner templates - Replacement tip

 Done Greetings, The following new tip for January 16 can replace obsolete tip: Searching Misplaced Pages from any website.

Tip title: Article banner templates

New articles are usually created and left in the Draft namespace (or a user's subpage) until they are ready for primetime.

{{Under construction}} and {{In use}} templates are intended for subsequent article tune-ups, and are posted at the article page top.
{{In use}} template is for articles actively undergoing a major edit for a short time to list them in Category:Pages actively undergoing a major edit.
{{Under construction}} is for articles actively undergoing construction to list them in Category:Pages actively undergoing construction.

As the article is developed, {{stub}} templates along with their switches (posted at article bottom) are used for articles still needing additional content.

See also: Category:Misplaced Pages maintenance templates

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here. JoeHebda (talk) 20:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
* Discussion:

This tip can be posted at the Tips library, Tips on working faster section. JoeHebda (talk) 21:17, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Changed date on this tip from Feb. 13 to January 16 - see #Alert: January 16 tool does not exist below.  JoeHebda | Talk  02:33, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Adding interlanguage wikilinks to bottom of tips

Idea:

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: Many of the tips have this ] interlanguage wikilink (Persian). They go at the very bottom of the article outside of the </noinclude> tag. Should we add this Persian one to all the tips that lack it? If so, we should probably use ]. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:51, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Before doing this for each tip, check for to see if there is a translated page. The Transhumanist 14:46, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: Also need to change and see if the links are date specific. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 06:34, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

(February 6) - Flashback to Misplaced Pages's past

Idea:

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: This tip would replace: Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 6 – How to add an article to a category

Nostalgia is a link to what Misplaced Pages looked like back in 2001 when we had only 9000 articles.

The English Misplaced Pages now has over 6,933,330 articles. (purge server to refresh number.) The five-millionth article, Persoonia terminalis, about a rare shrub, was written by an editor in Australia just after midnight on November 1, 2015.

To view an archived version of Misplaced Pages between between 2001 and now, see the Wayback Machine

Read more:
Nost: (Shortcut)   

History of Misplaced Pages  

The Misplaced Pages Revolution  

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 01:16, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

• Discuss: Perhaps add the sentence "To view a version between then and now, see the Wayback Machine." The Transhumanist 14:40, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Would recommend not using blast in view of recent on-going world violence. How about flashback instead? JoeHebda (talk) 14:50, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

But it doesn't rhyme! :) The Transhumanist 00:28, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Added Read more History of Misplaced Pages article & book The Misplaced Pages Revolution. JoeHebda (talk) 13:37, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Wondering if this Feb. 6 tip can be installed? Looks to be a good one. Cheers!  JoeHebda  talk  15:13, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

ω Awaiting  – Checkingfax and The Transhumanist Since this WP milestone happened on November 1, should this new tip be posted at TOTD November 1? Regards,  JoeHebda (talk)  16:41, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

• Approve – For WP:Tip of the day/November 1 Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 19:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Nice work, but it was 19,000 articles (as stated on the Nostalgia Misplaced Pages's homepage), not 9,000. Graham87 14:42, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

(February 8) - Searching help pages

Idea: @JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: – Would replace: Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 8 - How to watch for pages that do not exist yet

If you type keywords of your question into the search box, a page relevant to your question will usually turn up in the search results, e.g. How do I create an article? ( type in: create an article ), 'What size are thumbnails?' ( type in: thumbnail size ). If your search needs to be limited to the help pages then use the advanced search page (which appears after you have clicked search) or you can use the search box in Help:contents (accessed at any time by clicking Help displayed on the left side of all pages.). This is duplicated below.

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 02:34, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

• Discuss:

This doesn't work with "the search box" that appears on every page of wikipedia. The Transhumanist 13:00, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

idea for tip

Idea:

how to link to a specific point in an article

(WP:ANCHOR)

--The Transhumanist 15:32, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

February 10 tip - Referencing for beginners - Done

Greetings, The following new February 10 tip can replace existing (duplicate of August 10) tip: How to create a category.

Tip title: Referencing for beginners

References (or refs), on Misplaced Pages, are important to validate writing and inform the reader of the source of the text. When adding something to an article, it is highly advisable to cite a reference which describes the source of the information to help the reader who wishes to verify it, or to pursue it in greater depth. It is also useful to update or improve existing references.

See also: Help:Citations quick reference
Help:Footnotes

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here. JoeHebda (talk) 13:51, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
* Discussion:

 Done Added this new tip to Tips library, Tips for contributors on getting started section. JoeHebda (talk) 20:10, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

February 12 tip - Introduction to tables - Done

Greetings, The following new February 12 tip can replace existing (duplicate of August 18) tip: Another way to search Misplaced Pages with Google.

Tip title: Introduction to tables

Tables are a common way of displaying data. There is a four part guide Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup about putting tables in pages. It consists of these sections:

• Introduction to tables
• Creating tables manually
• Sortable tables
• HTML and tables

This tutorial provide a guide on making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style.

See also: Table and column templates  

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here. JoeHebda (talk) 19:10, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
* Discussion:

 Done this new tip posted to Tips library, Tips on working with articles section. JoeHebda (talk) 20:58, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

(tip idea) DRAFT

Idea:

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: This tip would replace: TBD

When creating external links on Misplaced Pages the server gods instruct us to strip off the https: or http: portion of long links. The receiving user site or browser will decide how to append the link when it is received. They call this protocol-relative URLs.

So a long URL that starts out like this:
https://www.longlink/folder.com

Will be submitted by you like this:
//www.longlink/folder.com

Or, one that starts out like this:

Will be submitted by your like this:

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 07:19, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

• Discuss here:

See Misplaced Pages:Protocol-relative URL. Some sites only allow either https: or http:. Both should be tested before making a protocol relative link. Some users make bare url's like https://www.longlink/folder.com, e.g. with <ref>https://www.longlink/folder.com</ref>. The protocol relative //www.longlink/folder.com doesn't make a link unless it's in square brackets: . When used as a ref, the url is in another section and users may not notice if it doesn't link. I think "server gods instruct us" is misleading. It's decided by the editors and there is not full agreement about when to do it or whether it's important. I'm not sure this is suited for a tip. external links would probably be better to pipe to Misplaced Pages:External links. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:43, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

He's right. Providing an instructional tip on a controversial issue is probably not a good idea. It may be better to wait until a consensus has been reached by the community and a resultant practice becomes standardized. The Transhumanist 21:03, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

(TBD) - Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual

Idea:

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: This tip would replace: TBD

Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual

Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual is a how-to guide that explains the process of contributing to the English Misplaced Pages, both for novice users and experienced editors.

Anyone can edit Misplaced Pages‍—‌including you. That is right. There is no fee, and you do not have to register. You do not even have to have an email account. As the Introduction explains, all Misplaced Pages articles are collaborative efforts. You can jump right in and add your own knowledge with just a few clicks and some typing.

See also:
Help:Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual (complete: online)  

Misplaced Pages – The Missing Manual (backstory only)  

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:02, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

• Discuss:

@Checkingfax and JoeHebda: The tip doesn't explain why we have a manual in addition to the help system.

Perhaps change it to this:

Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual

Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual is a how-to guide that explains the process of contributing to the English Misplaced Pages.

It was originally published as a book on the open market. The author and publisher have made it available as part of Misplaced Pages's help system where it can be improved by us.

It explains the core aspects of editing, and is a good introduction to the process of encyclopedia building.

See also:

Misplaced Pages – The Missing Manual (the backstory)  

• Discuss:

(January 10) Tip posted; Why archived?

Greetings, Just curious as to why January 10 tip was archived so soon after posting live? Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 14:39, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Me too. I haven't made it through all the postings yet. Concerning this tip...

I see a problem with the tutorial itself. The tutorial's title implies it is more general, but it's contents are aimed at editors more than readers. I've added "If you are interested in editing Misplaced Pages," to the tip to make this clearer. The Transhumanist 19:31, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

(January 19) Why tip to be skipped?

Greetings, Wondering why Jan. 19th tip (Preview tomorrow's Featured Article) is listed to be skipped? It is a duplicate of July 19th so I do not understand why it should not be replaced. Or at least wait until after Jan. 19th has passed? Please explain. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 14:44, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

@JoeHebda and The Transhumanist: Joe, T T suggested skipping it because (paraphrased for brevity): "the FA folks need all the help they can get". Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 17:28, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Where's the list with "skipped" in it? The Transhumanist 19:56, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion...At January 19 above, I added this tip to April 19, July 19 and Oct. 19 dates (and removed the skipped). JoeHebda (talk) 20:24, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

February 27 - What is Page curation? - Done

 Done

Greetings, The following new February 27 tip can replace existing (duplicate of August 27) tip: Join the Recent Changes Patrol!.

Tip title: What is Page curation?

Misplaced Pages:Page Curation is a suite of tools developed by Wikimedia Foundation to help experienced editors review new pages on the English Misplaced Pages. The recommendations and guidelines for new page patrollers described at WP:NPP which should be studied carefully before using these tools.

Page curation provides two main features:

1. the New Pages Feed, a dynamic list of new pages for review by community patrollers.
2. the Curation Toolbar, an optional panel on articles that enables editors to review them more effectively.

See also: Misplaced Pages:Page Curation/Help
Recent changes patrol
Category:Misplaced Pages new page patrol

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here. JoeHebda (talk) 17:16, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
* Discussion:

@JoeHebda and Checkingfax: I wonder why they named it that. Do you know? What does it have to do with curation? Perhaps the tip should explain what the activity "page curation" is. The Transhumanist 20:17, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

JoeHebda Hi, The Transhumanist, sorry I did not receive your pings on the 23rd. The first time the ping was set but the date/time was not changed so it did not go out; 2nd time the ping was reset, time/date were refreshed, but ping was not reset Re-pinging is frustrating sometimes.

I can see it being page curation in an abstract way, or if curation was redefined in Wiktionary We can always edit Wiktionary to suit our needs. Not.

Firefox spell-check does not even recognize curation as a real word. LOL.

Clarification always helps. I will do what I can to help clarify what curation means in this context.

As an aside, There is a link in the lefthand Tools section of each article page called 'RTRC' that links to 'Special:BlankPage/RTRC' which is supposed to 'Monitor and Patrol Recent Changes in Real-Time'. When I click on it I get a mostly blank page. What is up with that link? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:31, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

UPDATE: I refreshed the ] page five times and an interface finally appeared instead of a blank page. Cheers! Checkingfax — Preceding unsigned comment added by Checkingfax (talk • contribs) 04:59, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

This new tip can be posted at Tips library Watchdogging (monitoring) Misplaced Pages section. JoeHebda (talk) 21:33, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done Cheers!  JoeHebda  talk  13:09, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Suggestion

When starting a thread on a particular tip (from the schedule) on this talk page, providing a link to that tip would be a nice convenience. The Transhumanist 19:34, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

In the MOS, I thought I read that it's not a good practice to put links into a section title. However I do agree that it is helpful to include the link when discussing. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 20:19, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

The MOS includes publishing standards for articles. It's less critical for talk pages. But you don't necessarily have to put the links in the headings -- they are just as easily added to the body of a message. The Transhumanist 20:09, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

3 days of vandalism

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: The January 2 tip was vandalized three times starting here. Should the tips be protected by PC Protection (Pending Changes Protection)? We would still have unfettered access to updates but newly registered or anonymous editors would not. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 15:02, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Checkingfax} and The Transhumanist} - IMO let's wait a few more days & see if the vandalism ends. I have seen this type of drive-by vandalism on Community Portal & other pages (Jesus for example). Sometimes there is a BOT that auto-reverts these updates. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 17:18, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

I agree with Joe, seek protection only if it becomes a recurring problem. The Transhumanist 22:31, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

FYI - interlanguage wikilinks (fa) updated

Greetings, Today I placed a question at Village Pump-Technical about why the interlanguage wikilink was not showing for all TOTD templates. It might be an issue with my browser & skin. After reading Help:Interlanguage links#Method I tested the Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/January 2 tip by adding a leading colon & it now displays correctly. Then I used AWB to add a leading colon to all the other fa interlanguage wikilinks in TOTD tips. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 17:27, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

At VP-Tech, PrimeHunter mentioned possibly using a pipe on these links (for example, ]) so as to be reader-friendly. Wondering if there should be some kind of Prefix before the word Persian? Cheers, JoeHebda (talk) 17:46, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

* Discuss:

Language(s): Persian
or
Translation(s): Persian

For January 2 tip (mentioned above) I moved the interlanguage wikilnk (Persian) before 'totd nav' buttons as an example. It contains the pipe trick and looks like this:

Persian: ویکی‌پدیا:نکته روز/۱۲ دی

Since this link is a translation of that page tip, I think it makes sense to place above the navigation buttons. When updating with AWB, I noticed a few tips with es for language (Spanish) so those can be updated as well.

JoeHebda (talk) 13:53, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist and JoeHebda: In Persian it says: Tip of the Day/Day 12.

It reads right to left. I do not think it should go in the body of the tip. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 14:16, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

I Added it to the left sidebar Languages section. So now it can be removed from article. JoeHebda (talk) 14:28, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, JoeHebda. I do not think it will work that way either. If it is placed below the noinclude section it should show up in the left hand side of the page for the person viewing the article. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:38, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done  – Alert: January 16 tool does not exist

The tool linked to in the Jan 16 tip no longer exists, making the tip in error and totally obsolete.

We need a new tip for that date.

Just a heads up. The Transhumanist 01:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Changed tip Feb. 13 tip above to #(January 16) - Article banner templates - Replacement tip  JoeHebda | Talk  02:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done Updated with replacement new tip Article banner templates.  JoeHebda | Talk  02:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Alert: January 27 tip is in error

In the January 27 tip, the peer reviewer doesn't appear to be a gadget anymore.

That means that the script User:AndyZ/peerreviewer will need to loaded by the user, or he can use the link provided at the end of the tip to access an online version (which doesn't have all the functionality of the script).

The tip needs to be revised.

Just a heads up. The Transhumanist 03:07, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

It's still in the MoreMenu gadget which has a working link to it. The tip correctly describes how to access the tool with the gadget. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:51, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: I'm not seeing it. Following the instructions, I hover on Page, then hover on Tools, and there is no Peer reviewer in the drop down menu. All I see is:

Check external links

Check redirects

Copyright vio detector

Disambiguate links

Transclusion count

View history

Not sure what is going on. The Transhumanist 00:18, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Some options are namespace dependent. On articles and some other namespaces there is also "Peer reviewer" under Tools. The tip calls it "article peer-reviewer" and I think few people will try to use it on talk pages so I'm not sure it needs to be mentioned in the tip. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:25, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter:  Done Okay, I see it when at an article page. I'll adjust the wording to account for this. Thank you! The Transhumanist 00:29, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Regarding , it's also in the User and Draft namespaces. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:41, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

(February 15) - Using the Authority control tag - Done

 Done – Moved to February 18 on January 21, 2016.  JoeHebda (talk) 

Greetings, The following new February 15 tip can replace existing tip (duplicate of August 15): Explaining Wiki markup to other users.

Tip title: Using the Authority control template

Authority control is an aspect of library science that involves assigning a unique identifying number to a discrete topic. There are several systems used worldwide, which is why you may see several code numbers listed. As an example, the Misplaced Pages authority control information for the Alexander Graham Bell article looks like this: Please read WP:Authority control for an editor explanation and Help:Authority control for reader help.

For the English Misplaced Pages, this template draws most of its values from Wikidata, but they can be overridden by locally entered data; adding the data to Wikidata is preferable.

See also:
Template:Authority control
Authority control FAQ

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here.  JoeHebda  talk  20:45, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
* Discussion:

 Done Added this new tip to Tips library.  JoeHebda (talk)  16:08, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

'Central' template for TOTD

Greetings,

1. On the Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day page, I changed the Central template wording to include a link pointing to this talk page.
2. On this page, I added a Central template here.

 Done  – Thanks to Checkingfax for first adding the central template. Cheers!  JoeHebda  talk  15:07, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 17 - Show page in mobile view while browsing the desktop site (in progress)

Idea:

Tip would replace redundant tip: Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 17 - How to plant a CategoryTree!

Enable it in your Gadgets section of your Preferences.

Check off the box for: Mobile sidebar preview - Show page in mobile view while browsing the desktop site, then scroll to bottom of page and save your changes.

There is a Smartphone shaped icon (highlighted here with red box and arrow for illustrative purposes) that can be pressed to toggle the mobile view on and off. You can also turn off the mobile view by pressing the white-X in the black button at the bottom of the Smartphone frame. The Smartphone frame includes its own scrollbar independent of the Desktop scrollbar.

Read more:
Misplaced Pages:Gadget

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:51, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

• Discuss – 

Note: – Moved February 16 to February 17. Need to run tips for Feb. 14, 15 & 16 together.  JoeHebda (talk)  20:21, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Searching a Tip-of-the-day

Hey, y'all. What is the best way to search the Tip of the day library for a string of text? (The Transhumanist—JoeHebda) Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 13:47, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

@Checkingfax: Like this:

Enjoy. The Transhumanist 14:10, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

(February 14) - Thanks - send a notification

Idea: – To replace: Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 14 - To see everything on Misplaced Pages about a subject area...

The Thanks notification offers a way to give positive feedback on Misplaced Pages. This feature allows editors to send a 'Thank you' notification to users who make useful edits – by clicking a small 'thank' link on their history page or diff page.

The "(thank)" link is only displayed when both the viewer and editor are registered users. It can be used to thank the editor.

See also: Misplaced Pages:Expressing thanks

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here.  JoeHebda (talk)  21:52, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
* Discussion:

Rather than have thanks-related tips 3 days in a row, in might be better to spread them out 3 months apart, to give exposure to and promote thanking throughout the year. The Transhumanist 13:59, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

(February 15) - Thanks - template WikiThanks

Idea: – To replace: Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 15 - Using the Authority control template (which was moved to Feb. 18).

Expressing thanks for another user's helpful, generous, or positive actions is an important activity for cultivating community virtues such as civility and WikiPeace. Sending thanks communicates one's attitude towards other users. A message of thanks is most often directly placed on the other user's talk page. The WikiThanks template is a nice template to thank others.

WikiThanks template example:

{{subst:WikiThanks|Thank you for helping me. ~~~~}}

Creates:

Thank you for helping me. ] ] 15:33, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

See also: Misplaced Pages:Thank you

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here.  JoeHebda (talk)  22:24, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
* Discussion:

The message "Thank you for helping me" is not consistent with "Expressing thanks for another user's helpful, generous, or positive actions", as those sound more general than assisting a specific user. Barnstars are the main way to thank someone for their various types of work on the encyclopedia.

And as for spreading wikilove, don't forget the cookies! The Transhumanist 13:56, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

The Transhumanist has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Rather than have thanks-related tips 3 days in a row, in might be better to spread them out 3 months apart, to give exposure to and promote thanking throughout the year. The Transhumanist 13:59, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

(February 16) - Thanks - detail logs

Idea: – To replace: Misplaced Pages:Tip of the day/February 16 - How to create a subcategory

Whenever you send a Thanks notification to give positive feedback on Misplaced Pages, the resulting log files can be viewed. For a list of users that you have thanked, copy and paste this wikicode to your talk page, then change the XXXXXX to your user name.

To view the usernames who thanked you, copy and paste this wikicode to your talk page and change the XXXXXX to your user name.

See also: Misplaced Pages:WikiLove

Note: * Credit: – The above wikicode lines are from Redrose64 10:37, 23 March 2015 (UTC) from an archive search.

If there are any additions or updates needed for this new tip, please discuss here.  JoeHebda (talk)  01:28, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
* Discussion:

Don't forget that user names with spaces in them break the link. In URLs, spaces must each be replaced by the underline character. The Transhumanist 13:43, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Since it's in the query string and not the URL proper, spaces should be encoded to plus signs, {{urlencode:XXXXXX|QUERY}} will do this: {{urlencode:The Transhumanist|QUERY}} → The+Transhumanist, try these: List of users The Transhumanist thanked, Who thanked The Transhumanist. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:10, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Rather than have thanks-related tips 3 days in a row, in might be better to spread them out 3 months apart, to give exposure to and promote thanking throughout the year. The Transhumanist 14:00, 24 January 2016 (UTC)