Wikipedia:Picture of the day
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. 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 Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors. If you have concerns about other upcoming POTDs, consider either fixing it yourself or placing a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day.
Today's featured picture
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Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London. Founded in 1840, its living collections include some 27,000 taxa while the herbarium houses over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. This photograph shows the Davies Alpine House, which opened in 2006. The design of the greenhouse encourages natural airflow, the automatically operated blinds prevent overheating, and the glass is of a special type that allows maximum transmission of ultraviolet light. The structure houses a collection of alpine plants that grow above the tree line in their localities of origin. Photograph credit: Daniel Case
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Guidelines
- The picture must already be a featured picture. To nominate a picture to be featured, see Featured picture candidates.
- Featured pictures are currently selected in roughly the order in which they were promoted (i.e. a first in, first out order). See the category of featured pictures that have not appeared on the Main Page for this order. Exceptions are made for birthdays, anniversaries of events, national holidays or other occasions worth commemorating.
- Linked articles must be up to scratch – at a minimum, there should be no maintenance or cleanup templates or major problems with the article. In particular, the content of the blurb should be fully referenced.
- Not all featured pictures will appear as the picture of the day.
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 {{POTD/[date]|image}}The name of the image, without the File:prefixAlpine House, Kew Gardens, 2018 edit.jpg {{POTD/[date]|size}}The size of the image, without the trailing px350 {{POTD/[date]|caption}}The image caption (blurb) Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London. Founded in 1840, its living collections include some 27,000 taxa while the herbarium houses over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. This photograph shows the Davies Alpine House, which opened in 2006. The design of the greenhouse encourages natural airflow, the automatically operated blinds prevent overheating, and the glass is of a special type that allows maximum transmission of ultraviolet light. The structure houses a collection of alpine plants that grow above the tree line in their localities of origin. {{POTD/[date]|title}}A link to the article the image represents Kew Gardens {{POTD/[date]|texttitle}}A linkless short caption, also useful as an alt attribute Kew Gardens {{POTD/[date]|credit}}The credit line of the image, including the genre (e.g. photograph, painting) Photograph credit: Daniel Case 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/2021-09-16|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=2021-09-16}}or{{POTD|date=2021-09-16}}. Again, this system will only work for pictures of the day beginning January 1, 2007.As a userbox
Code Result {{User:CFeyecare/templates/POTD}} 
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Picture of the Day.Usage Random picture of the day
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.
As a thumbnail
When you want to display the picture of the day 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
{{POTD Wikipedia|float=right|title=yes|thumb=yes}}.Older pictures of the day
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.
