Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates

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 there.

Goals

The main goal of this WikiProject is:

To help manage the template namespace of Wikipedia.

Scope

It consists of:

1. 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).
2. Solving specific templates issues, such as standardisation and locations.
3. Improving the general documentation on how to create and use templates, in addition to improving the documentation pages of the individual templates.
4. Clean-up of the unused, unneeded and/or redundant templates, using the templates for discussion (TfD) process and guidelines.
5. Providing help and guidance in creating, updating, correcting and testing templates.

Related WikiProjects

Children

• 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

	This user is a WikiProject Templates participant.

To become a participant, add your name to the list below. If you like, you can proudly show your participation by adding one of the following templates to your user page:

{{User:Willscrlt/UBX/UbxWPT1Crochets}} (small userbox)

{{WikiProject Templates member}} (large userbox)

{{User:LikeLakers2/Topicons/WPTemplates}} (topicon)

• Actown (talk · contribs · count) 04:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC) - Will revamp WikiProject
• Richard0612 (talk · contribs · count) 19:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Bugs5382 (talk · contribs · count) 21:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Chochopk (talk · contribs · count) (球球PK) 01:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• Nmajdan (talk · contribs · count) 21:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Godrickwok (talk · contribs · count) 19:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
• Willscrlt (talk · contribs · count) 08:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC) - Intermediate esoteric template developer.
• Mike Peel (talk · contribs · count) 19:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC) - currently overhauling template categorization.
• Fabartus (talk · contribs · count) FrankB 15:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC) - Currently finalizing initial WP:TSP system and structures, which should be a sub-project or sister project of this wikiproject.
• Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs · count) Bernstein2291 02:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC) - I have created many sports templates.
• Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs · count) 10:06, 23 April 2007 (UTC) - Just learning template mark-up; especially interested on the addition of microformats to templates (per the microformats project; chiefly biography and place- related, at present), reducing redundancy and standardising template-property nomenclature, to make life easier for editors.
• Tim Q. Wells (talk · contribs · count) 00:24, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
• Rursus (talk · contribs · count) 10:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
• Kralizec! (talk · contribs · count) 20:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC) - currently working on the naval templates
• Anonymous Dissident (talk · contribs · count) 03:24, 15 July 2007 (UTC) - understand parser functions, have created over 25 templates. I'm okay with them.
• Edene (talk · contribs · count) 18:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC) - have worked on several templates, focusing on consistent look and feel.
• Skeezix1000 (talk · contribs · count) 11:40, 19 July 2007 (UTC) - 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
• Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs · count) 13:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC) - will help tag articles, especially for WikiProject UK Trams
• Rocket000 (talk · contribs · count) 18:09, 28 September 2007 (UTC) - My goal is to work within this project to help organize and condense Wikipedia's very large collection of templates.
• The Userboxer (talk · contribs · count) 01:37, 11 October 2007 (UTC) - I am available to help with more advanced functions like ParserFunctions, as well as more general HTML/wiki?CSS syntax.
• PhilipBembridge (talk · contribs · count) - I will help where I can! I'm fairly good at parser functions
• Brian Olsen (talk · contribs · count) 00:07, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
• Diligent Terrier (talk · contribs · count) 23:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
• JackSchmidt (talk · contribs · count) 05:43, 27 February 2008 (UTC) - I enjoy template development
• SigmaEpsilon (talk · contribs · count) 03:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC) I like template coding; I think I can help out here.
• Cannibaloki (talk · contribs · count) 18:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC) - I like to correct infoxes about music, bands, templates and so on.
• Arsenikk (talk · contribs · count) 23:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC) - have made a lot of templates, and will continue to do so
• Hereford (talk · contribs · count)
• MBisanz (talk · contribs · count)
• Chandler (talk · contribs · count) 10:40, 13 July 2008 (UTC) - I want to join, I want to fight! No but templates are fun. And I can sit hours just playing.
• emerson7 (talk · contribs · count) 16:51, 19 July 2008 (UTC) specific interest in navigational template standards
• ludwigs2 (talk · contribs · count) - template ninja
• nsaa (talk · contribs · count) 22:37, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• Amit6 (talk · contribs · count) 13:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• Toussaint (talk · contribs · count) 22:12, 13 December 2008 (UTC) - I've created plenty of navbox templates.
• Drilnoth (talk · contribs · count) 14:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC) - I like working on various templates.
• Mjquinn_id (talk · contribs · count) 10:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC) - Sports:Tennis, WikiProject Banners, Navboxes
• Faizhaider (talk · contribs · count) 05:09, 25 February 2009 (UTC) - created & edited few templates.
• Locos epraix (talk · contribs · count) 23:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• Unionhawk (talk · contribs · count) 20:30, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
• Thesevenseas (talk · contribs · count) 17:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC) - created the WikiProject Templates template!!
• Intelligentsium (talk · contribs · count) - I'd like to use what I know about templates to help Wikipedia, and learn more about them
• Daedalus969 (talk · contribs · count) 04:20, 21 December 2009 (UTC) - I love burying myself in code.
• Cheong Kok Chun (talk · contribs · count) - I am the creator of WikiProject Userbox and Project template. Currently I created Wikiproject templates for WikiProject Badminton, WikiProject Fencing and WikiProject Commonwealth
• Robert Skyhawk (talk · contribs · count) 17:17, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
• Mirokado (talk · contribs · count) 21:46, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
• Ezekiel63745 (talk · contribs · count) 23:56, 26 October 2010 (UTC) I wanna show my version of every warning template and block template, because I like wiki messages with nuvola images for some reason.
• Nicky Nouse (talk · contribs · count) 24 January 2011 - I spend all my time on Wikia and know about template syntax.
• DGG (talk · contribs · count) 19:27, 11 May 2011 (UTC) attempting to make some of the user messages more friendly
• ClaretAsh (talk · contribs · count) 07:29, 26 June 2011 (UTC) - Learning about templates and want to keep abreast of things
• RobinHood70 (talk · contribs · count) 08:26, 26 June 2011 (UTC) - 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.
• Bosstopher (talk) 21:27, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
• Day000Walker (talk · contribs · count)--Day000Walker (talk)
• Ezekiel53746 (talk · contribs · count) Ezekiel! ^{Talk to meh.See what I'm doin'.} /I'm Ezekiel63745. Same reasons as that account.
• LikeLakers2 (talk · contribs · count) 02:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC) - 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}}.
• Rubenerd (talk · contribs · count) 14:34, 9 February 2012 (UTC) Run my own MediaWiki install with custom templates; am facinated by them! I help fix broken implementations and those using outdated/depracated syntax, particularly navboxes and infoboxes.
• Yjenith (talk · contribs · count) 13:02, 6 March 2012 (UTC) - Handling parameters of the templates known to some extent. Major creations: {{Twitter status}} and {{Twitter trends}}.

Open tasks

Template namespace

• Display all templates.
• A better organisation of templates into subpages.

Navigation templates

• 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 standarise the creation of navigational templates.

Infobox templates

• List all infoboxes.
• Make a good organisation of the page's sections, and consider spliting the page into topical subpages.

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.

Best template-related pages

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

• {{tl}} and its redirect {{template}}

example: {{tl}}, {{template}}

• {{tic}}

example: Template:tic (talk, links, edit)

• {{ti}}

example: Template:ti (talk, links, edit)

• {{lt}}

example: Template:Lt (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

• {{ltt}}

example: Template talk:Ltt (edit|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)
  • Category:Infobox templates
• Navigation templates
• Template messages
• Stub types
• Userboxes

Wikipedia policies, guidelines and projects

Guidelines

• Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Templates
• Wikipedia:High-risk templates
• Wikipedia:Taxobox usage
• Wikipedia:Template namespace
• Wikipedia:User page

Projects

• Wikipedia:Infobox standardisation
• Wikipedia:Template limits
• Wikipedia:Template locations, ongoing survey
• Wikipedia:Template standardisation
• Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates

Help pages

• Help:A quick guide to templates
• Help:Advanced templates
• Help:Template
• Help:Variable

Meta-pages

• m:Help:A quick guide to templates
• m:Help:Advanced templates
• m:Help:Template
• m:Help:Variable

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

• Wikipedia:Requested templates
• Wikipedia:Templates for discussion

Directory of WikiProjects

WikiProject Council

Guide to WikiProjects