Wikipedia talk:Userboxes

For help with making or using userboxes, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Userboxes.

Improved instruction for making a user box list and how to automatically update my stats count

I previously asked a question about creating userboxes and was helped by another editor. Thank you. I have since shown another editor how to address the same problem I had. The problem originated with our reading of the instructions here which implies that that an editor first places the Usertboxtop at beginning then the userboxes then finally the Userboxbottom. Trying to place the Userbox bottom last after the other boxes results in the userboxes going all over the place on the userpage. I spent hours trying to fix this. You have to place the user boxtop first then place the userboxbottom immediately below it then go into edit again and place the userboxes in between the top and bottom templates. May I edit the instructions to make that clearer or should someone else do that?

Using the Userboxtop template[edit]

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.

My second question is about transferring stats from my global account log to my user boxes. I have userbox for number of articles created and number of edits made but I find I have to manually update these. Is there any way of linking these stats to my global account log so they update automatically? LPascal (talk) 02:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Template:Userbox sample compact

{{Userbox sample compact}} used on wp:userboxes#Userbox sampling templates was deleted. Is there an alternative or should that section be deleted? Thank you Adakiko (talk) 23:00, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Standardized documentation

On a quick search, I'm not seeing any {{Userbox documentation}} template providing a standardized documentation for user boxes. This seems like something that should exist and be used. Sdkb ^talk 18:08, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

I can make that. Would you like me to start it? thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 21:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

@Sdkb thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 21:28, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

@TheTechie, sure, feel free to! Rolling it out widely may be the more significant challenge. Sdkb ^talk 21:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

@Sdkb I now have a skeleton of a documentation. You (or anyone else watching this page) is free to improve it, and give feedback on the template talk page. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

(at the template link above) thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I mean, I'd start by using {{Documentation}} in it... Sdkb ^talk 04:12, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

FYI, there are also shared documentation templates {{Userbox/categories}} and {{Userbox/citydoc}}. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:55, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Talk page centralization

Should Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes and this page be merged? Sdkb ^talk 18:09, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Weak oppose: discussion about the project page itself might still need to be discussed on its talk page. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 21:28, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

If the talk pages are kept separate, there needs to be clear (and concise) instruction at the top of both of them delineating which discussions should go where. Right now, the other page has This is the talk page for discussing WikiProject Userboxes and anything related to its purposes and tasks, which directly overlaps with what I'd assume would be discussed here, and the banners at the top of this page include a bunch of junk like a userbox advertising the ability to watch this page. Sdkb ^talk 21:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Creating large userboxes

I want my userpage to be only userboxes scaled up in a 2 column grid that takes up the entire width of the article. Currently I use a CSS hack using the scale property to achieve this. Unfortunately, it fails to take into account smaller resolutions entirely. Any Wikitext-smiths have a solution to my (frivolous) problem? -1ctinus📝🗨 01:53, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

User:1ctinus, to avoid the blurriness, you're going to have to re-implement all the userboxes with Template:Userbox-w.

Scaled + CSS hacks, blurred
This user likes squirrels.

Userbox-w, not blurred
This user likes squirrels.

—⁠andrybak (talk) 21:45, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the template recommendation. Is there a way to run a find/replace for tables? the String replace invoke methods failed for me. -1ctinus📝🗨 23:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

I finally figured out the solution, and it's really dumb. To make the replace work, I had to turn it into an HTML table, and to replace, I added these extremely hacky lines:

{{#invoke:String|replace|{{#invoke:String|replace|{{#invoke:String|replace|(stuff)|width:238px|width:476px}}|45px|90px}}|font-size:8pt|font-size:16pt}}

If this isn't a hack I don't know what is, but it's working really well (except for small images) -1ctinus📝🗨 00:21, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Centralize Userboxes

I had an idea, why not centralize all userboxes using "Userbox:" (Just like Wikipedia: or User:) and put the entire Userbox database to organize it a little. I made a simple Userbox: website for this idea And will make this my #1 priority (if you like it) Userbox:Hoster

Cheers, Arotparaarms (talk) 02:02, 27 June 2024 (UTC)