This
WikiProject aims to organise, expand and improve all Wikipedia's
userboxes. We want to make it easy for users to make their own, and to find others, as well as create a standard for all userboxes, including a global prefix and image.
Initial interests are to help change to a global prefix, reform all userboxes to such standards, re-categorise, and maintain.
The need for organisation led to 32 people joining the project within two days of its being founded.
Warning!
If <br /> is required to organize the description of the userbox, make sure it is in between <noinclude></noinclude> tagswhere? as this causes major problems (e.g. userbox stacking). More work for us.clarification needed
"Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. They should never be used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on
user pages."
Replace with text or another suitable image.
Only fair-use images need to be removed—NOT others.
Consider using the {{Images on userboxes}} template to notify the creator of Wikipedia policy regarding fair-use images on userboxes.
Userboxes without "user" prefix
All the 'Userbox' prefixes have been dealt with (besides templates for creation), so we need to move over any stray boxes we notice without any prefix (See
Guide to moving userboxes, below), and look out for new additions under 'Userbox'.
Category:Userboxes (and subcategories marked with {{Category diffuse}}) both have gained a large number of userboxes that can be categorised into subcategories or other categories. If you can, change the category tag to these other categories. Also, there is a problem with the sorting of userboxes, as most of them are categorised as "U": these all need to be categorised by the first letter after "User". When creating a new sub-category, consider adding parameter |topic= to the template {{template category}}.
Guide to moving userboxes
We are currently working on changing the prefixes of all known userboxes to 'User', for example {{User en}}. If you wish to help please follow the following guidelines for one userbox at a time.
For any userbox without a 'User' prefix, move the template to a title with 'User' as the prefix (which will create a redirect from the original template);
Go back to the redirect page and
check what links to it. Visit every page which appears in that list, and change the template link on that page to the new name;
When all links to the redirect page have been removed, then it is time to delete the redirect (delete yourself if admin, otherwise request
here – Deletion can be performed as orphan and duplicate template).
Assistance and support
Should you need any help or assistance in any of your work, you are welcome to leave a message on
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes. You are also welcome to contact me (Ian13) at
my talk page about maintenance, helping out on this page, or anything else.
•| melecie | - here's
what I have done so far, specializing in userboxes with variants. leave a message in my
talk page and I may make one for you. I mostly do stuff involving beautiful images from commons or interests.
Nanami73talk I can make boxes for those who request. I didn't make much but you can find them
here, please, request them on the button >>> Request a userbox!
WaddlesJP13 I make simple, clean, and fun userboxes. You can view my gallery
here. If you would like me to make you one, leave a message on my
talk page. If you do not care for my style of userboxes I can make you a personalized one, just be descriptive when describing what you want it to look like. You can send a photo you like or I can find one for to put in there. I will reply to you with a few userboxes fitting your description. Have a good day.
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This WikiProject aims to organize, expand and improve all Wikipedia's
userboxes. We want to make it easy for users to make their own, and to find others, as well as create a standard for all userboxes, including
naming conventions and
content standards.