Wiki/Projects

/template:wiki

/template:wikipages

This page tracks specific projects, long running, organized efforts to improve the wiki.

Badges & Userboxes

Badges, inspired by [1]. First implemented locally as WikiWG/badge. Also, more generally, Userboxes.

• https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Template:Userbox
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Userbox
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Userboxes
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Userboxes (dry)
• https://codesnippets.fandom.com/wiki/Userboxes (3rd party)

Draft idea categories

Category:Badges
Category:Headerbox
Category:Userbox
Category:Usergroups
template:usergroups

Templates

Creating, maintaining (updating), & educating about templates available & how to use them. For easily signaling participation in one of the space's activities.

Category:Templates

template:usergroups <== {{usergroups}}

Meta

template:linkshere <- {{linkshere}}
template:subpages <- {{subpages}}

Non-duplication

{{:discord_link}} -> Template:Discord_link#Usage

Headerboxes

Tree hierarchy of template:home, for navigation.

Styling hierarchy for that tree layering template:boxes.

Headerbox template links

Wiki/Projects#Headerbox template links

Use the mnemonic View · Talk page · Edit, in the template, referring to the template's page itself. See the wp:Template:Hackerspace template box on Wikipedia for use of this Template box idiom on Wikipedia where it's well-established, after being arrived at though extensive experimentation and modification. It's an idiom, but a standard one.

Matching wikipedia's Navbox templates

|| <small>[[:Template:About|V]] · [[:Template_Talk:About|T]] · [[Special:EditPage/Template:About|E]]</small>

• ||: moves the rest of the line to the right
• <small>: de-biggens
• [[:Template:About|V]]: "[V]iew" mnemonic, nice for mouseover, or click to visit and see other users of template
• · : special character used as separator, between 1/2 and paragraph-S-mark, in edit footer, mw:extension:charinsert & on wiki settings for MediaWiki:EditTools
• [[:Template_Talk:About|T]]: talk page, for discussions in context, capturing design wishes & thoughts, at time of use
• [[Special:EditPage/Template:About|E]]: edit link functioning with on-wiki links. Cribbed knowledge of the MediaWiki function from wikipedia's use

Template Gateways

e.g. {{t}}, {{t/div}}, {{t/div/use}} so editors can type a short easy to remember template, hit preview, and get help on page for how to proceed further in more specific use. Similar in spirit, analogous, to the or, but with render preview during edit instead of mouseover during browse. Fast feedback loops.

Template:t {{t}}: This is the root page, of a collection of pages, as mw:help:subpages for easy, convenient use while editing. Include {{t/[subpage]}} to include reference instructional text in the page preview, Ctrl-Shift-p, while using source editing of wikitext.

Special:PrefixIndex/Template:T/:

• T/Help
• T/box
• T/box/note
• T/box/note/use
• T/collapse
• T/div
• T/div/end
• T/div/use
• T/expand
• T/fold
• T/linkshere
• T/new
• T/qr
• T/sp
• T/span
• T/span/end
• T/span/use
• T/subpages
• T/users

Trying to use these for styling, but also for date labeling Template:asof Category:asof/2025.

Semantic-styled & -colored template wrappers

From Wiki/Ontology#Styling_Proposal:_Boxes_&_Colors, let's implement these.

I want to embed these into the Template:T hierarchy linked in #Template Gateways