A group of Wikipedians has formed this WikiProject to better manage Wikipedia's myriad templates. This page and all subpages of this page contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the project's talk page and see the to-do list.
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Goals
The main goal of this WikiProject is:
- To help manage the template namespace of Wikipedia.
Scope
It consists of:
- Conducting efforts to better organize, document and display all templates in the template namespace, including: navigation templates, infobox templates, inline templates linking country articles, stub types, image copyright tags and user language templates (Babel).
- Solving specific templates issues, such as standardisation and locations.
- Improving the general documentation on how to create and use templates, in addition to improving the documentation pages of the individual templates.
- Clean-up of the unused, unneeded and/or redundant templates, using the templates for discussion (TfD) process and guidelines.
- Providing help and guidance in creating, updating, correcting and testing templates.
- Improving template accessibility
Related WikiProjects
Child projects
- The Infobox Watch – a central location for infobox designers to assist each other
- WikiProject Inline Templates – for inline templates
- WikiProject Stub sorting – for stub templates
- WikiProject Succession Box Standardization
- WikiProject user warnings – for user talk namespace template messages
Related
- WikiProject Categories – maintain Wikipedia's category system
- WikiProject Category Suppression – automatic categorization and suppression of it in templates
- WikiProject Microformats – addition of microformats to appropriate templates
Participants
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To become a participant, add your name to the list below (in alphabetical order, please). If you like, you can proudly show your participation by adding one of the following templates to your user page:
- {{Template:User WP Templates}} (userbox)
- {{User:Willscrlt/UBX/UbxWPT1Crochets}} (userbox)
- {{WikiProject Templates member}} (large userbox)
- {{User:LikeLakers2/Topicons/WPTemplates}} (topicon)
- {{Wikipedia:KIS/WPT}} (KIS label)
- Abhisheks 91 (talk · contribs)
- Alakzi (talk · contribs)
- Amit6 (talk · contribs)
- APerson (talk · contribs) - Can't believe I didn't hear about this before now.
- Arsenikk (talk · contribs) - have made a lot of templates, and will continue to do so
- Bazj (talk · contribs)
- benzband (talk · contribs)
- Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs) - will help tag articles, especially for WikiProject UK Trams
- Bosstopher (talk · contribs)
- Buaidh (talk · contribs)
- Cannibaloki (talk · contribs) - I like to correct infoxes about music, bands, templates and so on.
- Chochopk (talk · contribs) (球球PK)
- ClaretAsh (talk · contribs) - Learning about templates and want to keep abreast of things
- Clarkcj12 (talk · contribs)
- Daedalus969 (talk · contribs) - I love burying myself in code.
- Daniel Mietchen (talk · contribs) - interested in using information from Wikidata
- Day000Walker (talk · contribs)
- DGG (talk · contribs) attempting to make some of the user messages more friendly
- Diligent Terrier (talk · contribs) (Not receiving mass messages)
- Drilnoth (talk · contribs) - I like working on various templates.
- emerson7 (talk · contribs) specific interest in navigational template standards
- Fabartus (talk · contribs) - Currently finalizing initial WP:TSP system and structures, which should be a sub-project or sister project of this wikiproject.
- Faizhaider (talk · contribs) - created & edited few templates.
- Godsy (talk · contribs)
- Helixsoft (talk · contribs) Helixsoft (Talk|Contributions|Templates|Userboxes)
- JackSchmidt (talk · contribs) - I enjoy template development
- Jayadevp13 (talk · contribs) I try to promote interconnectivity among Wikipedian articles through templates.
- Jesus Presley (talk · contribs)
- Kralizec! (talk · contribs) - currently working on the naval templates
- Lantuszka (talk · contribs)
- Lemondoge (talk · contribs) - Made a lot of templates on my own (Miraheze) wiki, and figured out one important thing with templates: If a CSS class doesn't work, be patient!
- LikeLakers2 (talk · contribs) - Knows parser functions very well. (ironically, still has to look at mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions and mw:Help:Magic words every so often) Helps clean up Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates using {{subst:User:LikeLakers2/sync-pp}}.
- Masssly (talk · contribs)
- MBisanz (talk · contribs)
- Mike Peel (talk · contribs) - currently overhauling template categorization.
- Mirokado (talk · contribs)
- Mjquinn_id (talk · contribs) - Sports:Tennis, WikiProject Banners, Navboxes
- Mlpearc (talk · contribs)
- Mr. Yondris Ferguson (talk · contribs) - Just became a novice editor and I want to contribute more.
- Nicky Nouse (talk · contribs) 24 January 2011 - I spend all my time on Wikia and know about template syntax.
- Nmajdan (talk · contribs)
- Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs)
- nsaa (talk · contribs)
- Paine Ellsworth (talk · contribs)
- Paulscrawl (talk · contribs) Hacked dozens of templates for work-related MediaWiki install years ago, somehow still in heavy use without me around or proper documentation. Learning better structured template development and documentation to leverage my contributions on Wikipedia.
- PC-XT (talk · contribs) varied knowledge, if I don't know something, I want to help find it out
- Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) - Especially interested on the addition of microformats to templates (per the microformats project, reducing redundancy and standardising template-property nomenclature, to make life easier for editors. Also their accessibility
- Robert Skyhawk (talk · contribs)
- RobinHood70 (talk · contribs) - I enjoy optimizing templates and adding new functionality. I also have a non-editing bot that can generate a list of all calls to a template with their parameters.
- Rubenerd (talk · contribs) Run my own MediaWiki install with custom templates; am fascinated by them! I help fix broken implementations and those using outdated/depracated syntax, particularly navboxes and infoboxes.
- Rursus (talk · contribs)
- Satnam S Virdi (talk · contribs)
- Skeezix1000 (talk · contribs) - Too many articles are infected with superfluous templates - want to help improve the good templates, reduce the number of ones that simply repeat what could be better accomplished by a category
- SMcCandlish (talk · contribs)
- Srolanh (talk · contribs)
- Steel1943 (talk · contribs) - I've been creating and updating a lot of "/doc" pages lately...
- Technical 13 (talk · contribs)
- The Obento Musubi (talk · contribs)
- The Userboxer (talk · contribs) - I am available to help with more advanced functions like ParserFunctions, as well as more general HTML/wiki?CSS syntax.
- Tlustulimu (talk · contribs)
- Unionhawk (talk · contribs)
- Vanisaac (talk · contribs) Probably should put my name down if I'm going to be answering questions on the talk page.
- Willscrlt (talk · contribs) - Intermediate esoteric template developer.
- Yjenith (talk · contribs) - Handling parameters of the templates known to some extent. Major creations: {{Twitter status}} and {{Twitter trends}}.
- Zenexer (talk · contribs)
- Vvven (talk · contribs) - See my userpage and found many functional templates created by me.
Open tasks
Template namespace
- Display all templates.
- A better organisation of templates into subpages.
- List all navigational templates.
- Make a good organisation of the page's sections, and consider splitting the page into topical subpages.
- Precise the location of each template (side or bottom).
- Create a good guideline that organise and maybe standardise the creation of navigational templates.
Infobox templates
- List all infoboxes
- done, but needs keeping up-to-date; see Wikipedia:List of infoboxes
- Make a good organisation of the page's sections, and consider spliting the page into topical subpages.
- replace direct transclusions of {{Infobox}} with more specific templates.
Country-referencing templates
- List all country-referencing templates, including countries and nations that no longer exist.
- Solving the issues on the used country codes and flags.
These pages are the best pages concerning lists of templates, and should be examples for other template-related pages.
- Image copyright tags: It's a complete list of all Image copyright tags, with a description of each template. In addition to a great categorisation and documentation of these tags.
- Stub types: Also a complete list of stub templates, well categorised, and with statistics.
Templates
Project banner
- {{WikiProject Templates}} *deleted* (as of Jan 2010) see TfD discussion
Internal links
- {{tic}}
- example: Template:tic (talk links )
- {{ti}}
- example: Template:ti (talk · links · )
- {{lt}}
- example: Template:Lt ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- {{ltt}}
- example: Template talk:Ltt ( | template | history | links | watch | logs)
- {{ttl}} (t=talk, l=links)
- example: Template talk:ttl
- {{tlx}}
- example:
{{tlx|parameter2}}
Sandboxes
- {{Template sandbox}}
- {{x1}}
- {{x2}}
- {{x3}}
Guidelines
Types
- Image copyright tags
- Manual of Style (infoboxes)
- Navigation templates
- Template messages
- Stub types
- Userboxes
Wikipedia policies, guidelines and projects
Guidelines
Projects
Help pages
Meta-pages
Other proposals
- Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates (rejected)
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/T1
- Wikipedia:Huge message boxes (rejected)
- Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Proposal - a failed proposal
Requests
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