Help:Finding Saintapedia badges

File:Badge gallery.png

Screenshot of badge gallery

Badges are small colored boxes that can be added to a User page to communicate information about the editor and help USApedians collaborate more effectively on articles. You can see images of all the available USApedia badges in the badge gallery.

We recommend you start by:

1. adding a {{Badge box}} to your user page
   • With Visual editor
     1. Section "template" from the insert menu or type { + { to add a template
     2. Type "Badge box" into the text field and click on ""Add template"
   • With Enhanced editor
     1. Copy the text from Blank Badge box
2. Adding badges
   • With Visual editor - Section Badge1 and then add the badge template in such as {{Dominican Badge}}
   • With Enhanced editor - after the equals sign (=), such as |Badge1 = {{Dominican Badge}}

Please see Help:USApedia Badges for a complete description of badges including how to make them, ideas for additional badges, structure, and guidelines.

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Screenshot of VisualEditor insert template dialog box

Create you own using {{Group badge}}, {{Certification badge}}, {{Alumni badge}}, or {{General badge}}.

USApedia badges

• The Badges category is a complete list of all badges.
• The Badge gallery should have most badges in an easy to navigate format.

How to easily add Badges to your user pages

The {{Badge box}} template is a simplified way of adding up to 15 USApedia badges to your user page. Each parameter is optional. Simply add the syntax from below to your user page and then add badge calls as appropriate. A list of many of the badges and instructions on how to create new badges be found here. This template is designed to assist users in getting started with badges in a hopefully simple way. Advanced users are, of course, free to develop their own approach to adding badges to their user pages.

Steps:

1. Go Badge box
2. Copy the Blank Badge box
3. Go to your user page
4. Edit your user page
5. Paste the Blank Badge box there
6. Save the changes to your user page
7. Follow the Find USApedia badges link
8. Pick a badge to add and copy the text you need to add it
9. Go to your user page
10. Edit your user page
11. Paste the badge text after the equals sign (=), such as |Badge1 = {{Gardening badge}}
12. Save your changes
13. Follow the Find USApedia badges link to add more badges

Blank Badge box

Add the following wiki text to the top of your user page. After saving the page, find some badges and add one per row. Example below.

{{Badge box
|Badge1 = 
|Badge2 = 
|Badge3 = 
|Badge4 = 
|Badge5 = 
|Badge6 = 
|Badge7 = 
|Badge8 = 
|Badge9 = 
|Badge10 = 
|Badge11 = 
|Badge12 = 
|Badge13 = 
|Badge14 = 
|Badge15 = 
}}

Example Badge Box with Several Badges added

The following wikitext will result in the badge box on the right.

{{Badge box |Badge1 = {{Acronyms WikiProject}} |Badge2 = {{Gardening badge}} |Badge3 = |Badge4 = |Badge5 = |Badge6 = |Badge7 = |Badge8 = |Badge9 = |Badge10 = |Badge11 = |Badge12 = |Badge13 = |Badge14 = |Badge15 = }}

USApedia Badges ABC This USApedian is a member of the WikiProject Acronyms This USApedian is a Gardener. Learn about badges  • Find more badges Organization badge challenge

Badge pictures

Do you have a better picture for a badge? As with most everything on USApedia, if you can make it better, go ahead and do it. To replace a badge picture, click on the current picture on the badge; this will take you to the USApedia page for that picture. Click the link near the bottom for "Upload a new version of this file." Upload your file, and indicate in the File Changes box what the source was for the image. The badge will now display your new image. Generally, square images work best, and they should display well at about 45 pixels.

Advanced Techniques

These user badges do not try to pre-define how text will be wrapped on your page. Therefore, a common approach is to put user badges inside a table to help control where they are located on a page and how other text interacts with them.

If you don't want to use the {{Badge box}} template, another option would be a basic two column table that will put badges two-abreast on your user page. Use the following format for that table. You can add as rows as you want. You can customize the table and its placement to your liking. See Help:Table for information on how to configure your table:

Wititext for badge table

{|class="wikitable"
|+ User badges
| {{user badge one}} || {{user badge two}}
|-
| {{user badge three}} || {{user badge four}}
|}

Will result in

User badges

{{user badge one}}	{{user badge two}}
{{user badge three}}	{{user badge four}}