The picture of the day (POTD) is a section on the English Wikipedia's Main Page that is automatically updated every day with one or more featured pictures, accompanied by a blurb.
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Although it is generally scheduled and edited by a small group of regular editors, anyone can contribute. If you have concerns about today's or tomorrow's POTDs, please place a message at Wiki: Main Page/Errors. If you have concerns about other upcoming POTDs, consider either fixing it yourself or placing a message at Wiki talk:Picture of the day.
Lichfield Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Lichfield, in the English county of Staffordshire. A cathedral was first built on the site in 700, by Bishop Headda, to house the bones of St Chad. The original wooden building was replaced by a Norman cathedral made from stone, which in turn was replaced by the present Gothic structure, begun in 1195. The fabric of the cathedral suffered in the English Civil War, when it was used as a defensive structure. In the 18th century the interior was extensively remodelled, with major structural work organised by James Wyatt; this involved removing the high altar to make a single worship area consisting of the choir and lady chapel, and adding a massive stone screen at the entrance to the choir. This photograph shows the choir of the cathedral, which was built around 1200. Photograph credit: David Iliff Recently featured: |
You can insert the picture of the day on your user page or talk page by adding the text {{Pic of the day}}
. It will be displayed in a box of no more than 600 pixels wide and will include the blurb associated with the picture. A version without text is also available via {{POTD}}
.
It is also possible to create your own custom POTD layouts, in case you do not wish to use the existing versions. Mix and match the following components to make your own. This system will only work for pictures of the day beginning January 1, 2007. Be sure to replace [date]
with an appropriate date value. For a dynamically updating version, use {{#time:Y-m-d}}
(example: {{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|image}}
).
Template | Description | Renders as |
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{{POTD/[date]|image}} | The name of the image, without the File: prefix | Lichfield Cathedral Choir 1, Staffordshire, UK - Diliff.jpg |
{{POTD/[date]|size}} | The size of the image, without the trailing px | 600 |
{{POTD/[date]|caption}} | The image caption (blurb) | Lichfield Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Lichfield, in the English county of Staffordshire. A cathedral was first built on the site in 700, by Bishop Headda, to house the bones of St Chad. The original wooden building was replaced by a Norman cathedral made from stone, which in turn was replaced by the present Gothic structure, begun in 1195. The fabric of the cathedral suffered in the English Civil War, when it was used as a defensive structure. In the 18th century the interior was extensively remodelled, with major structural work organised by James Wyatt; this involved removing the high altar to make a single worship area consisting of the choir and lady chapel, and adding a massive stone screen at the entrance to the choir. This photograph shows the choir of the cathedral, which was built around 1200. |
{{POTD/[date]|title}} | A link to the article the image represents | Lichfield Cathedral |
{{POTD/[date]|texttitle}} | A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute | Lichfield Cathedral |
{{POTD/[date]|credit}} | The credit line of the image, including the genre (e.g. photograph, painting) | Photograph credit: David Iliff |
There are two additional predefined layouts:
{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|column}}
: This has the image and caption above each other with no borders. Used on some of the Main Page alternatives and also suitable for user pages.{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|row}}
: This has the image and caption encapsulated in (usually) a single table row. This is the version used on the current Main Page.It is also possible to permanently feature a POTD for a selected day. Just add a specific value for the date you want. For example, today's picture of the day is {{POTD/2024-04-26|image}}
. Likewise, you can use date parameters with the other templates as well. If you like the pre-made formats, you can use date parameters there as well, like this: {{Pic of the day|date=2024-04-26}}
or {{POTD|date=2024-04-26}}
. Again, this system will only work for pictures of the day beginning January 1, 2007.
Code | Result | |||
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{{User:CFeyecare/templates/POTD}} |
| Usage |
Use {{User:My Chemistry romantic/Templates/Random POTD}} to display a randomly selected picture of the day.
{{User:Tyw7/picofday}} also displays a randomly selected POTD, but without the header and footer.
When you want to display the picture of the day like an ordinary thumbnail, similar to {{WP:Wiki Commons/POTD}}, you can use {{POTD Wiki}}. For instance, if you want a thumbnailed version, floated right, you can use {{POTD Wiki|float=right|title=yes|thumb=yes}}
.
If you want to permanently include a POTD that was selected between November 1, 2004 and December 31, 2006, use the following: {{Wikipedia:Picture of the day/[month] [day], [year]}}
or {{Wikipedia:POTD/[month] [day], [year]}}
. For example, {{Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 31, 2006}}
.
Pictures of the day selected from May 2004 through October 2004 are only accessible in month-at-a-time archives (see below) and can only be placed on user pages by using standard image syntax.
Picture of the day archives and future dates
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