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Quite simply, a user category is appropriate if it has the capacity to facilitate coordination and collaboration between users for the improvement of the encyclopedia. Some examples of types of user categories that are generally appropriate include: Categories which group users by participation in Wikipedia.
Pages in category "Wikipedia categorization" ... Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User categories; P. Wikipedia:People by year; Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about ...
Of all the pages that discuss User Categories, it seems that Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User categories is the most useful. Other pages include: Wikipedia:Guidelines for user categories (tagged historic) Wikipedia:Categorization#User_namespace (passing comment) Wikipedia:User categories (Initially looks useful, but not really)
A. Wikipedia:Article size. Wikipedia:As of. B. Wikipedia:Be bold. C. Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates. Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting names. Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people. Wikipedia:People by year. Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects. Wikipedia:User categories. Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. D.
- Syntax
- Optional Substitution
- Namespace
- Userboxes and Category Use
- Content Restrictions
- Caution About Image Use
- Caution About Colours
- Design: How to Construct The Box
- Using The Userboxtop Template
- Using The Babel Grouping System
The standard syntax for adding a userbox to your user page (also known as transclusion) is: {{user name_of_box}}. If you do not have any userboxes on your user page yet, you want to begin using them, and you want to add them down the right side of your user page starting at the top, then edit your user page and, at or near the top of the source for...
You may decide to substitute the template code onto your user page using the syntax {{subst:user name_of_box}}. The use of "subst:" will ensure that the template is always displayed in its form when you add it to your user page (i.e. it will not reflect subsequent edits to the template). This method will lead to large amounts of code on your user p...
The namespace you place your userbox in matters. Userboxes may only be created or displayed in the User, Project (Wikipedia), or Templatenamespaces. So which prefix is best for your userbox: User:, Wikipedia:, or Template:? Since content in User:space represents individual editors more than the community, they are traditionally given more leeway th...
A userbox can be coded to autocategorise any user pages which transclude the userbox into one or more user categories. However, do notuse autocategorisation without good reason. 1. Most userboxes refer to a single isolated characteristic of the user; unless the characteristic directly relates to the user's ability or willingness to collaborate on c...
All userboxes are governed by the civility policy.Wikimedia Commons has a large range of icons for use within boxes. However, if you select an image from somewhere else, make certain the image has a free license. Templates (which includes userboxes and topicons) on user pages may not contain any copyrighted content not under free license; so, for example, "fair use" images are explicitly forbidden...
Please be mindful of the colour contrast guidelines at WP:COLOUR– low-contrast colours present accessibility barriers to people with colour-blindness or other visual disabilities.
There are a number of box types to select from when deciding to make a userbox. The most commonly used design is the "Standard box". It has one square shaped area on the left ("id") and a rectangular area on the right ("info"). For ease of use, userboxes are typically made using maker-templates that have a number of parameters. The id and info boxe...
As with the Babel box, there is a box to group userboxes together. Just make a list of userboxes with {{Userboxtop|box-name}} at the top, followed by your list of userboxes, and {{Userboxbottom}} at the bottom. For example, the box to the right is created using the following list:
The Babel grouping system can also be used, e.g. {{Babel|sv|no-4|in Rome}}, which generates: However, it only works for user boxes with the "User" prefix, which must then be dropped for the arguments. Also, boxes that need arguments of their own (such as {{User:UBX/Monty Python}} or {{User Translator}}) are difficult to use with the Babel system. T...
^Categories are intended to group together pages on similar subjects." – Help:Category ^ a b "The central goal of the category system is to provide navigational links to Wikipedia pages in a hierarchy of categories which readers, knowing essential—defining—characteristics of a topic, can browse and quickly find sets of pages on topics that are defined by those characteristics."
Be mindful that like anything else you add to Wikipedia, userboxes you add will likely be public forever, even if you later have your user page deleted. (Like other Wikipedia pages, your user page will be regularly archived in the database dumps and may be archived by third parties such as the Internet Archive .)
