Wikipedia talk:Userboxes

message: My user page got corrupted automatically, and I don't understand why. JacktheBrown (talk) 22:40, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem 

message: This is just to answer questions if anyone has any about the revisions I just posted for the table of Userbox parameters. Mainly cleaned up some inconsistency in the old version, and I made an effort to ensure that it was clear which values were unit-less and which ones required a CSS length suffix. I also added some examples, to hopefully make some of it more clear.
To sum up on something that I found fairly confusing, namely, which must be unit-less (bare number) and what must have a unit (i.e px):
* Font-size and border-width (border-s, id-s, info-s) must be a unitless number with no suffix like 'px'.
* Cell padding (id-p) must use a CSS length value, and can not be unit-less.
* Line-height (id-lh, info-lh) can and should be unit-less, but optionally it can use a unitized value like 14px.
* I only listed HEX and Named Colors, I wasn't sure what other color methods are supported.
Cheers  Myndex talk   07:10, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Design: How to construct the box 

message: I previously asked a question about creating userboxes and was helped by another editor. Thank you. I have since shown another editor how to address the same problem I had. The problem originated with our reading of the instructions here which implies that that an editor first places the Usertboxtop at beginning then the userboxes then finally the Userboxbottom. Trying to place the Userbox bottom last after the other boxes results in the userboxes going all over the place on the userpage. I spent hours trying to fix this. You have to place the user boxtop first then place the userboxbottom immediately below it then go into edit again and place the userboxes in between the top and bottom templates. May I edit the instructions to make that clearer or should someone else do that?
=== Using the Userboxtop template[edit] ===
As with the Babel box, there is a box to group userboxes together. Just make a list of userboxes with  at the top, followed by your list of userboxes, and  at the bottom.
My second question is about transferring stats from my global account log to my user boxes. I have userbox for number of articles created and number of edits made but I find I have to manually update these. Is there any way of linking these stats to my global account log so they update automatically? LPascal (talk) 02:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improved instruction for making a user box list and how to automatically update my stats count 

message: As with the Babel box, there is a box to group userboxes together. Just make a list of userboxes with  at the top, followed by your list of userboxes, and  at the bottom.
My second question is about transferring stats from my global account log to my user boxes. I have userbox for number of articles created and number of edits made but I find I have to manually update these. Is there any way of linking these stats to my global account log so they update automatically? LPascal (talk) 02:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using the Userboxtop template[[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Userboxes&action=edit&section=17 edit]] 

message: used on wp:userboxes#Userbox sampling templates was deleted. Is there an alternative or should that section be deleted? Thank you Adakiko (talk) 23:00, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Userbox sample compact 

message: On a quick search, I'm not seeing any  template providing a standardized documentation for user boxes. This seems like something that should exist and be used. Sdkb talk 18:08, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I can make that. Would you like me to start it? thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 21:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

text: @Sdkb thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 21:28, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @TheTechie, sure, feel free to! Rolling it out widely may be the more significant challenge. Sdkb talk 21:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Sdkb I now have a skeleton of a documentation. You (or anyone else watching this page) is free to improve it, and give feedback on the template talk page. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

text: (at the template link above) thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean, I'd start by using  in it... Sdkb talk 04:12, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

text: FYI, there are also shared documentation templates  and . —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:55, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardized documentation 

message: Should Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes and this page be merged? Sdkb talk 18:09, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Weak oppose: discussion about the project page itself might still need to be discussed on its talk page. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 21:28, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: If the talk pages are kept separate, there needs to be clear (and concise) instruction at the top of both of them delineating which discussions should go where. Right now, the other page has , which directly overlaps with what I'd assume would be discussed here, and the banners at the top of this page include a bunch of junk like a userbox advertising the ability to watch this page. Sdkb talk 21:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk page centralization