Edit your User page and insert one or more of the following bolded strings (including the four curly braces), preview your edit, and when it looks right, save it.
To see a visual display of the below templates check out the Tip of the Day Display template gallery.
{{totd}} – the main userspace version of the tip of the day template, with border, centered in the middle of the page. Complete with inspirational light bulb. Border color can be custom modified.
{{totd b}} – a more compact version of the above template. Useful for columns.
{{totd3}} – a purple box version, useful for displaying the tip in columns.
{{totd-random}} – this is the tip of the moment template, which automatically displays a different tip every time you enter a page it is on. If it doesn't update, try clearing your browser cache.
{{totd-tomorrow}} – this shows tomorrow's tip, and is used by Wikipedia tipsters to make sure that the tips are up-to-date and corrected before they go live.
{{tip of the day}} – the borderless version, with light bulb.
{{totd2}} – the borderless version used on Wikipedia's Help page (which already has its own borders). (No light bulb).
{{totd CP}} – like the help page version, but with a box and light bulb. Spans the whole field (screen or column) that it is in.
{{totd-static}} – like the totd version but the date is static. You have to manually change the date. Good for testing purposes.
To have the current day's tip and tomorrow's tip show up at the bottom of your talk page, below the last message, paste this code anywhere on your talk page (preferably at the top):
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day}}
Barnstars
You have earned this 1956 Hungarian Revolution Barnstar
István (talk) 05:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
The Understanding Barnstar
Dear Elen of the Roads, thank you very much for your kindness and your understanding! It really helped me to endure the block. --Mbz1 (talk) 15:38, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For bringing sense and sanity to WP:ANI,and hitting the nail right right on the head. Dlohcierekim 20:33, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
For your invaluable contributions to evaluating and addressing copyright concerns in this CCI. Moonriddengirl(talk) 17:36, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
The Guidance Barnstar
He's a difficult case with great upside potential. Your mentoring is appreciated. Mike Cline (talk) 00:42, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
With appreciation to your thoughtful and sensitive navigation of the ship in the Monty Hall case. Mathematicians (of which I used to be one) aren't easy to communicate with, and mathematicians going mathematical and losing everyone else (as well as each other) was one of the key problems here. I think the pushback on some of your original proposals was sound, but regardless I deeply appreciated the combination of pragmatism, challenging questions where you perceived a real issue, and adaptability in the discussion on the proposed decision page, to get around the sticky points in #11 and reach a solution that works for (nearly) everyone. Martinp (talk) 07:33, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar
For the wise closure of a very long discussion on a difficult user (which shall remain unnamed here). FuFoFuEd (talk) 09:43, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For dealing with User:J3mm0 in the decisive fashion you did. Sometimes the line between nasty but sane, and just pure crazy is very bright... Cerejota (talk) 07:44, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar
Thanks for such a quick response in solving the problematic vandal IP I reported earlier today!
Your work is greatly appreciated by Wikipedia editors. Charles Dayton(Talk) 18:53, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
The Understanding Barnstar
To a woman of character:
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
Thank you very much for your kindness and your understanding and simply being here on Wikipedia.
