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Question for December 3 tip - Finding stubs and making them grow

At Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 3 it says set the threshold for stub display in your user Preferences. I searched all of user Pref. and cannot find where to set stub threshold? JoeNMLC (talk) 10:44, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That might be outdated then, as I feel the majority of January 9 is. It mentions iTunes and Windows Media Player, which both have multiple successors. Maybe in the Tip for December 3, that could be removed, and the current tip for January 9 could see mentions of older software replaced. Xan ✨ talk 07:41, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New tip of the day suggestion

When you go through the tutorial entitled Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/reliable sources" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_VisualEditor/reliable_sources_quiz) and try the quiz, you get 10 questions as to whether a source is or is not "adequately supported by a reliable source." Although each source is complete as far as information, what the quiz directions don't tell you is that to answer questions correctly, you have to go to the online source and not merely look at the information about the source in the question. Otherwise, you'll miss important clues about the reliability of the source in that question and get marked wrong, but not understand why. For example, going to the onlince source could reveal an article writer's lack of professional status even in a widely respected journal that you'd never know about just from looking at the source in the question. Augnablik (talk) 14:19, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Header is nominated for deletion

Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day/Header. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:29, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects for Creation

Hello Tipsters,

Just has a thought, there are tips regarding redirects and its creation, and also regarding AfC. Would a tip regarding the AfC/Redirects be useful? If there is support, I am willing to write the draft form of the tip. Please share your thoughts.

Thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:14, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is hard ,tommorrow will be worse but the next time will be sunshine🥺 41.116.190.189 (talk) 10:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New tips are good for the hood. Write 'em up! — The Transhumanist 18:37, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bunnypranav: I guess I should have pinged you. Better late than never. — The Transhumanist 12:14, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah, sure thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:40, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mentorship for new editors (suggestion for tip of the day)

Did you know that the mentorship module on Wikipedia is available for newcomers to select mentors?

This module pairs each newcomer with an experienced user and provides a simple way to post questions on their mentor's talk page. Mentors volunteer to participate by signing up. With just a click, newcomers can navigate to their mentor's talk page and ask questions directly.

To access this feature, editors can enable it through: Special:Preferences → User profile → Newcomer editor features → Display newcomer homepage.

Other available modules include:

Start module: Encourages users to complete a tutorial, add or confirm their email address, and create a user page.
Help module: Provides links to commonly visited help pages.
Impact module: Displays the number of pageviews on articles edited by the newcomer.
Suggested edits module: Offers tasks for newcomers to complete.

See Wikipedia:Growth Team features

Olugold (talk) 07:54, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the tip. It is scheduled to go live on February 23rd, and will reappear on the same day each year for eternity (unless replaced by somebody). Congratulations!

By the way, all tips are subject to editing by anybody like every other page on Wikipedia. Feel free to improve any tip at any time. If you replace a tip with a new one, be sure to update the tip's title on the tip schedule.

Again, thank you. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 19:27, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Search Wikipedia from any website

The link to Conveniently searching Wikipedia is not found. Sigh.

Littenberg (talk) 17:12, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Littenberg: The link is now fixed. See Conveniently searching Wikipedia.

Please let me know if those instructions at that link still work.

By the way, I used the following bookmarklet to find it on the wayback machine:

javascript:location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href

To install it in your browser, create a bookmark using that code instead of a URL, and put it on your browser's bookmark bar. Then click the bookmark when on a page you want to find the wayback machine's archiving of. — The Transhumanist 11:32, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nice! Many thanks. Littenberg (talk) 18:28, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

How about indenting? You can indent in the source editor by using Ctrl}. I feel this would help a lot of users because indenting really helps readability, especially on complex templates. What do you think? This isn't the actual tip, just an idea (at least so far) element 00:13, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Element10101: It doesn't seem to work for me. Can you be more specific? In what source editor? And how do you do Ctrl-) without doing Ctrl-0? You didn't actually mean Ctrl-}, did you? (See your post). How does this differ from using colons in the source text in order to indent? Indenting using the tab key doesn't get rendered properly. — The Transhumanist 11:18, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is Ctrl} or ]. This indents the code but usually has no effect on the output; it's similar to how programmers indent code for readability. I am on the Vector-2022 skin and it works in the general wikitext source editor. Tab ↹ usually just moves my focus instead of indenting. Is it a different situation for you? element 14:29, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Element10101: (see below) — The Transhumanist 12:35, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in the original Vector skin. Tips should be written to account for all major skins. — The Transhumanist 12:34, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, sorry, I should have tested it element 14:45, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@The Transhumanist: I tested it out now. It does work on all major skins. element 17:38, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do mobile users have access to tips?

Just curious. — The Transhumanist 12:34, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]