Userbadge

Revision as of 19:30, 1 October 2008

A userbadge is a small colored box (see examples to the right) designed to appear on a DareNET Wiki user's page as a communicative notice about the user.

Using Existing Userbadges

Userbadges are for the use of users on their own user pages. It is considered uncivil to place any userbadges on any other user's page(s) without their permission. However, userboxes may be placed on non-mainspace talk/discussion pages by anyone.

Syntax

The standard syntax for adding a userbadge to your user page (also known as transclusion) is:

{{Userbadge/name_of_badge}}

Optional Substitution

You may decide to substitute the template code onto your user page using the syntax {{subst:Userbage/name_of_box}}. The use of "subst:" will ensure that the template is always displayed in its form when you add it to your user page, i.e. it will not reflect subsequent edits to the template. This method will lead to large amounts of code on your user page.

Constructing a Userbadge

How to construct the box

There are a number of box types to select from when deciding to make a userbadge. 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, userbadges are made using maker-templates that have a number of parameters. Once the maker-template is saved, it is automatically transformed to HTML.

The id and info boxes can include text, links, and images using the usual wiki 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.

Userbadge types

Using the Userboxes template

Example 1 irssi This user uses irssi for chatting on IRC. This user prefers Firefox.

There is a box to group userbadges together. For example, the box to the right is created using the following list:

{{Userboxes|align=right|toptext=Example 1}}
{{Userbadge/irssi}}
{{Userbadge/firefox_user}}}}

NOTE: The extra }} at the end of the last basge. They're the closing tags for the grouping box.

Using tables

Another alternative would be to use a table for your userbadges.

For example:

{| style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
| {{Userbadge/irssi}} {{Userbadge/friendly}}
|-
| {{Userbadge/pillage}} {{Userbadge/ps cs3}} 
|}

Would produce the following:

irssi This user uses irssi for chatting on IRC. This user wants to be your friend.

This user enjoys indiscriminate pillaging. This user contributes using Adobe®Photoshop®CS3

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