Wikipedia:Sound of the day
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 The sound of the day is an image which is automatically updated each Saturday and Sunday with a sound from Portal:Featured sounds.
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Featured sound tools:
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Guidelines
[edit]- The picture must already be a featured picture. To nominate a picture for that honor see featured picture candidates.
- Featured images are currently selected in roughly the order in which they were promoted (i.e. a First In, First Out order). See the featured pictures candidates archive for this order. Exceptions are made for anniversaries of events, or for national holidays.
- Not all featured pictures will appear as POTD. Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Unused has a list of those that have been skipped.
Including the POTD on your user page
[edit]You can insert the image on your user page or talk page by adding the text {{Pic of the day}} (this version is shown above). It will be displayed in a box of no more than 600 pixels wide, and will include a small amount of text based on the article in which the image appears. A no-text version is also available via {{POTD}}.
It is also possible to create your own custom POTD layouts, in case the already-existing versions will not look good within your user page design. Mix and match the following components to make your own. 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}}).
- number= - number of sounds
- filename=Pinafore airs 1.ogg
- title="Pinafore airs", pt. 1
- description= [Should not generally be used]
- filename2=
- title2=
- description2=
[Can be up to 5]
- caption=The main text describing the sound
- credit=If not in the caption.
| Template | Description | Renders as |
|---|---|---|
{{SOTD/[date]|file}} |
The name of the image, without the Image: prefix. |
Flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii parzudakii) Cundinamarca.jpg |
{{POTD/[date]|size}} |
The size of the image, without the trailing px. |
500 |
{{POTD/[date]|caption}} |
The image caption. | The flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii) is a species of bird in the tanager family, Thraupidae. It is endemic to South America and is found in the eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, its natural habitat being subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The flame-faced tanager is a distinctive-looking species with black and opalescent-green upperparts, opalescent-green and buff underparts, and a deep-red and yellow face. The subspecies T. p. lunigera lacks the deep red on the face, which is replaced with orangish-red. It is an omnivorous bird, feeding on fruit and arthropods found mostly on mossy branches. It breeds in the rainy season with eggs laid in clutches of two and fledglings fed by both parents. Although it is listed as a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it is facing population decline due to habitat destruction. This flame-faced tanager of the subspecies T. p. parzudakii was photographed perching on a branch in the Parque Verde y Agua in Colombia's Cundinamarca Department. |
{{POTD/[date]|title}} |
A link to the article the image represents. | Flame-faced tanager |
{{SOTD/[date]|texttitle}} |
A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute. | Template:SOTD/2025-03-08 |
There are two additional pre-defined layouts
{{SOTD/{{#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 suitable for user pages as well.{{SOTD/{{#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 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 POTD is {{SOTD/2025-03-08|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: {{Sound of the day|date=2025-03-08}} or {{SOTD|date=2025-03-08}}. Again, this system will only work for Pictures of the day selected beginning January 1, 2007.
As a Userbox
[edit]| Code | Result | |
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| {{User:CFeyecare/templates/SOTD}} | User:CFeyecare/templates/SOTD | Usage |
POTD thumb
[edit]When you want to display the POTD like an ordinary thumbnail, similar to {{WP:Wikimedia Commons/POTD}}, you can use {{POTD wikipedia}}. For instance, if you want a thumbnailed version, floated right, you can use : {{Template:POTD wikipedia|float=right|title=yes|thumb=yes}}.
Picture of the day archives and future dates