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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.
The images are either visible spectrum photographs, images taken at non-visible wavelengths and displayed in false color, video footage, animations, artist's conceptions, or micrographs that relate to space or cosmology. Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995. [3]
Select a featured picture to be the POTD (see #Scheduling for details). Images that have a connection to the chosen date (e.g. birthdays or event anniversaries) are often selected. Add {{Picture of the day|YYYY-MM-DD}} to the local file-description page for the featured picture. If the picture is a re-run (which should hardly ever happen ...
Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2024#1]] for January 1). You can add an automatically updating POTD template to your user page using {{Pic of the day}} (version with blurb) or {} (version without blurb).
Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 2021#1]] for January 1). You can add an automatically updating POTD template to your user page using {{Pic of the day}} (version with blurb) or {} (version without blurb).
Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2021#1]] for May 1). You can add an automatically updating POTD template to your user page using {{Pic of the day}} (version with blurb) or {} (version without blurb).
Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2021#1]] for December 1). You can add an automatically updating POTD template to your user page using {{Pic of the day}} (version with blurb) or {} (version without blurb).
This is a page of featured pictures that have been skipped from appearing as picture of the day for various reasons. Some of these are mainly blocked by their articles or usage (for example, a very short article, or insufficient context), whereas others have more fundamental problems and will probably never appear on the main page.