Help:Saintapedia badges

A badge or userbox (commonly abbreviated as UBX) are small colored box (see examples to the right) designed to appear only on a USApedian's User Page as a communicative notice about the user, in order to directly (or even indirectly) help USApedians collaborate more effectively on articles.

They generally include one or two small graphics and a few short lines of text. Often they also include wiki markup that places the user in a category.

• Badges are generally intended to be used only on userpages.
• Badges are tools intended for communication purposes, such as helping editors collaborate more effectively on articles.
• Badges on this wiki should be created as templates and transcluded onto user pages. See

List of Badges

Badge gallery
File:Badge gallery.png Screenshot of badge gallery
See the full listing at Help:Finding USApedia badges

See Help:Finding USApedia Badges for a list of badges and instructions on easily adding them to your userpage.

Why add badges to your user page

Badges help you:

• connect with other USApedia editors
• tell more about yourself
• make your User page more visually appealing
• Promote your efforts, organizations, or communities which you are a member

How to add badges to your user page

To add templates, see:

• Templates for VisualEditor or
• Help:Templates

We recommend you start by:

1. adding a Blank Badge box (template) to your user page and then
2. adding badges after the equals sign (=), such as |Badge1 = {{Plain language badge}}

Badge ideas

Created

• Linux user
• Template Creator
• Gardener
• Nav Box creator
• Stub creator - especially focusing on create Stub articles from red links on Acronyms page and adding other acronyms.
• Programming languages - Wikipedia:Userboxes/Programming

Ideas

• Experts - especially sciences - Wikipedia:Userboxes/Expertise
• Wikipedia:Userboxes/Profession
• Grammarian
• Article Rescue Squadron
• Category Creator
• Make more than 10 edits
• Create more than 2 pages
• Homepage improvement team
• Current Events WikiProject
• Mac user

How to Create Your Own Badge

Certification badges

There is an {{Certification badge}} that allows badges to be easily created for individuals who have earned a certification.

Group badge

{{Group badge}} allow you to easily and quickly create a badge for a group

General badge

{{General badge}} allow you to easily and quickly create a badge with full customization

Other badges

Badges can made for other efforts, organization,accomplishments. to do so, an individual needs

1. an idea
2. a small graphic image (44 pixels x 44 pixels ideally)
3. to upload the image to USApedia
4. to copy the code into a new template
5. make the three changes listed below

Typical Content

Typical userbox content examples:

• This user <verb phrase> <noun phrase>.
  • This user is <noun phrase>.
  • This user is a member of <noun phrase>.
  • This user is a fan of <noun phrase>.
  • This user supports <noun phrase>.
  • This user contributes to <noun phrase>.
  • This user is interested in <noun phrase>.
  • This user is fascinated by <noun phrase>.

Other combinations are obviously possible.

Category inclusion

• Do not create categories which could potentially include all USApedians. For example, userboxes such as: "This user is human."; "This user uses the internet"; etc., should not include category markup based on such criteria.
• Do not negatively categorize "not"-based userboxes. For example: "This user does not like <noun phrase>."

Caution about image use

• Make certain the image license conforms with our copyright policy.

Example Wikitext for the template

Example Code from Gardening Badge

Garden Badge Code	Changes You Need to Make
{{userbox | border-c = navy | id = [[File:Gardening Badge.jpg|44px]] | id-c = #ccccff | info = This USApedian is a '''[[USApedia:Gardening|Gardener]]'''. | usercategory = USApedia Gardener | nocat = {{{nocat|}}} <br style="clear:both" /> }} <noinclude> {{documentation}}</noinclude>	File:Badge Code Example.jpg

Remember:

• ''' will make text bold.
• In the example This USApedian is a '''[[USApedia:Gardening|Gardener]]'''. using the | changes how the link will appear on the page. In this case, [[USApedia:Gardening]] normally appears as USApedia:Gardening. By changing it to [[USApedia:Gardening|Gardener]] , the link now shows up as Gardener instead of USApedia:Gardening.

After you create your own badge, please

1. add it to the list above.
2. create documentation on how to add it to your page. See the Gardening Badge documentation for an example.

How to construct the box

There are a number of box types to select from when deciding to make a badge. 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, badges are typically made using maker-templates that have a number of parameters.

Template Parameters	Meaning	Value type
border-c	The border color of the userbox.	CSS color value (#hex or color name)
border-s	The border size of the userbox.	Width in pixels
id-c	The background color of the id box.	CSS color value
id-s	The font size of the id box.	Size in PostScript points
id-fc	The font color of the id box text.	CSS color value
id-p	The distance between border and content of id box.	CSS padding width value. px, pt
id-lh	The distance between text lines of id box.	CSS relative line height/length value. em
info-c	The background color of info box.	CSS color value
info-s	The font size of info box.	Size in PostScript points
info-fc	The font color of info box.	CSS color value
info-p	The distance between border and content of info box.	CSS padding width value. px, pt
info-lh	The distance between text lines of info box.	CSS relative line height/length value. em
id	This is the content of the id box.	Free-form
info	This is the content of info box.	Free-form

The id and info boxes can include text, links, and images using the usual Wikipedia syntax. Generally, the id box will contain a few letters or a 43px image, while the info box will contain a sentence with a link or two.

See more options on {{Userbox}} template page itself.

Badge types

Types of Userboxes
Code	Appearance
Standard box
{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#039 |info-s=8 |info-fc=#fff |id=ID |info=Content}} or {{Userbox |side-box colour |main box colour |side-box content |main box content}}	ID Content
Reverse box
{{Userbox-r |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#039 |info-s=8 |info-fc=#fff |id=ID |info=Content}} or {{Userbox-r |side-box colour |main box colour |side-box content |main box content}}	Content ID
Double box
{{Userbox-2 |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id1-c=#fff |id1-s=12 |id1-fc=#000 |id2-c=#000 |id2-s=12 |id2-fc=#fff |info-c=#039 |info-s=8 |info-fc=#fff |id1=ID 1 |id2=ID 2 |info=Content}} or {{Userbox-2 |side-box 1 colour |main box colour |side-box 1 content |message |side-box 2 content |border colour |side-box 2 colour |main box font-colour |box border thickness}} Note: If omitted, border colour and side-box 2 colour default to the same colour as side-box 1, and font colour is black. Default border thickness is 1.	ID 1 Content ID 2
Mini box
{{Userbox-m |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |id=ID}} or {{Userbox-m |box colour |box content}}	ID

Badge sampling templates

To make it easier to quote the generation code for a userbox in a uniform format, a template {{Userbox sample compact}} has been made available, which produces a picture of the userbox along with the code necessary to create it. To use it, just give it exactly the same parameters you would give the {{Userbox}} template. You must use subst:, or the template will not work properly. An example is shown below:

{{subst:Userbox sample compact|id=UBX|id-c=red|info=This is a '''[[WP:UBX|Userbox]]'''.}}

Produces:

{{{{Visua|}=|itor tra=tion|{{Notice=r|list= al|ower=ia|dges = [[He|Findin=ower|ia bad=]|}

UBX This is a Userbox.

There are not yet any similar templates available for userboxes created by the templates Userbox-r, Userbox-2 and Userbox-m.

List of badges

Below is the list of Category:Badges, displayed using a Dynamic Page List.

<DynamicPageList>

 category=Badges
 ordermethod=categoryadd
 order=descending
 namespace=Template
 shownamespace = false
 addfirstcategorydate = true

</DynamicPageList>

See also

For more details, as well as an extensive list of Userboxes in use on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Userboxes.

• Userbox Maker