User:Iljhgtn/Tools

uploading an image/logo

Go to the website where the image can be found publicly
Scroll down to where the logo is in the middle of the page, right click on it, and choose "Open image in new tab"
From that page, right click on it, and choose "Save image as", and sav it to your PC.
Open your default editor and reduce the size to 220px. (for infobox main image)
Go to Wikipedia:File upload wizard and click "Upload a non-free file"
Upload the file from your PC, fill out the fields, and click "Upload"
The wizard creates a file such as: File:Secure Community Network.png
Then edit in the the image such as at Secure Community Network article and add the logo to the infobox.

Book articles without cover images

From the 2020s: [1]

Generally: Category:Books with missing cover

Useful stuff

Petscan can generate all kinds of lists, like this one of Featured Articles below 15k.
To see the estimated word count, you can activate Wikipedia:Prosesize just by checking the box here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-input-wpgadget-Prosesize Once it's active, you can click the "Page size" button in the tools menu.
You can get a permanent link by clicking on the page's history tab. Like this version of the Teahouse page with your recent questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Teahouse&oldid=1162269539
And finally, you create a custom scratch page within your user space. For example, you could go to the User:Iljhgtn/Tools page which currently does not exist, click the "Start the User:Iljhgtn/Tools page", and paste any useful Wikipedia stuff you find there for later reference.
MOS:TIES (see below, copied from MOS:TIES for my reference here)

WP

MOS

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters

Quote box

A "quote box" can be made using this template.

Strong national ties to a topic

MOS:TIES

An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the (formal, not colloquial) English of that nation. For example:

For topics with strong ties to Commonwealth of Nations countries and other former British territories, use Commonwealth English orthography, largely indistinguishable from British English in encyclopedic writing (excepting Canada, which uses a different orthography).

uploading an image/logo

Go to the website where the image can be found publicly
Scroll down to where the logo is in the middle of the page, right click on it, and choose "Open image in new tab"
From that page, right click on it, and choose "Save image as", and sav it to your PC.
Open your default editor and reduce the size to 220px. (for infobox main image)
Go to Wikipedia:File upload wizard and click "Upload a non-free file"
Upload the file from your PC, fill out the fields, and click "Upload"
The wizard creates a file such as: File:Secure Community Network.png
Then edit in the the image such as at Secure Community Network article and add the logo to the infobox.

Tool that inserts a green checkmark that a page has been patrolled or not

User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/ReviewStatus

Teahouse search

You can try this advanced search to find you Teahouse questions.

EngVar unclear

Anarchism Today

Creating a manual annual archive

The following works with the { { archived annually } } method.

Create a new page, titled "User talk:Iljhgtn/Archive 2023" (but insert the Name of "Archive 20XX" for the correct respective year at the start of any new year.

To manually archive information, copy and paste the content to be archived from the edit source mode, and then paste it directly below the latest content in the respective numerical archive page, i.e. at the bottom of "User talk:Iljhgtn/Archive 2023" for example.

Then delete the content from the primary User talk page, as it is then archived and no longer needed on the talk page.

Links for historical reference

Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 March 27 - Wikipedia