Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates

This WikiProject was formed by Wikipedians to better manage this encyclopedia's myriad templates. This page contains their many useful suggestions, and 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.

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.
6. Improving template accessibility

Related WikiProjects

Child projects

• WikiProject Infoboxes – 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

Task forces

• Unused Templates Task Force – for dealing with the unused templates backlog

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

Project participants

This user is a participant in WikiProject Templates. 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: {{User WP Templates}} (userbox) {{User:Willscrlt/UBX/UbxWPT1Crochets}} (userbox) {{WikiProject Templates participant}} (large userbox) {{User:LikeLakers2/Topicons/WPTemplates}} (topicon) {{Wikipedia:KIS/WPT}} (KIS label) 23emr (talk · contribs) Abhisheks 91 (talk · contribs) Aidan9382 (talk · contribs) Alakzi (talk · contribs) Amit6 (talk · contribs) Atakes Ris (talk · contribs) - I have been adding templates to articles without them andrybak (talk · contribs) Arsenikk (talk · contribs) - have made a lot of templates, and will continue to do so Aseleste (talk · contribs) - I can write advanced templates and modules. Willing to help if asked. Bduke (talk · contribs) benzband (talk · contribs) Berrely (talk · contribs) - Frquently fix and add template documentation. BrandonXLF (talk · contribs) - I've been organizing, fixing and making a lot of templates. I also convert templates to lua. Brustopher (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) Clarkcj12 (talk · contribs) Daedalus969 (talk · contribs) - I love burying myself in code. Daniel Mietchen (talk · contribs) - interested in using information from Wikidata DannyS712 (talk · contribs) Dawn PScLim (talk · contribs) - I edit a few templates daily and edit their visualtext 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. Enterprisey (talk · contribs) - Can't believe I didn't hear about this before now. emerson7 (talk · contribs) specific interest in navigational template standards Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 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. FenrisAureus (talk · contribs) Godsy (talk · contribs) Helixsoft (talk · contribs) Helixsoft (Talk|Contributions|Templates|Userboxes) Hike395 (talk · contribs) --- editing different infoboxes and their supporting modules History DMZ (talk · contribs) HotMess (talk · contribs) - Been adding some TemplateData to TemplateData-less templates I encounter, seeing as nobody else is doing it lol JackSchmidt (talk · contribs) - I enjoy template development Jake01756 (talk · contribs) Jayadevp13 (talk · contribs) I try to promote interconnectivity among Wikipedian articles through templates. Jesus Presley (talk · contribs) Ken Tony (talk · contribs) Kepler-1229b (talk · contribs) Kralizec! (talk · contribs) - currently working on the naval templates Lantuszka (talk · contribs) 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}}. LDW5432 (talk · contribs) Macbrew (talk · contribs) Malconfort (talk · contribs) MarioJump83 (talk · contribs) I frequently edited templates and modules, especially on war maps and COVID-19 Masssly (talk · contribs) MBisanz (talk · contribs) MCEllis (talk · contribs) Mike Peel (talk · contribs) - currently overhauling template categorization. Mirokado (talk · contribs) Mitzikarl (talk · contribs) Mjquinn_id (talk · contribs) - Sports:Tennis, WikiProject Banners, Navboxes Mlpearc (talk · contribs) MonkeyStolen234 (talk · contribs) - I have edited a few and created one and I want to make it official. Mr. Guye (talk · contribs) I edit templates frequently Mr. Yondris Ferguson (talk · contribs) - Just became a novice editor and I want to contribute more. Music1201 (talk · contribs) - creating templates, and adding TemplateData to commonly used templates Mycranthebigman (talk · contribs) - Yass, templates! Nanami-seven-three (talk) - I can built some templates and I can help categorize and list stuff! Nicky Nouse (talk · contribs) 24 January 2011 - I spend all my time on Wikia and know about template syntax. Nmajdan (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 Ringbang (talk · contribs) 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) Sam Sailor (talk · contribs) Satnam S Virdi (talk · contribs) Sdkb (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 Sm8900 (talk · contribs) SMcCandlish (talk · contribs) SriramPGDLitt (talk · contribs) Srolanh (talk · contribs) Steel1943 (talk · contribs) - I've been creating and updating a lot of "/doc" pages lately... Technical 13 (talk · contribs) Terasail (talk · contribs) The Obento Musubi (talk · contribs) The Pancake of Heaven! (talk · contribs) - I enjoy making templates, I'll try to work on them some more. 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) UserboxMaker35 (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. VarunFEB2003 (talk · contribs) I adore templates! WikiCleanerMan (talk · contribs) Creator of the Unused Templates Task Force; here to help reorganize, better update, and create necessary templates. 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}}. Young Lecturer (talk · contribs) Zenexer (talk · contribs) H.K.pauw (talk)

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 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.

Other

• Answer requests for comment
• Create requested templates

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 Restored with coding that bans categorization onto template talk pages unless it is shown that it is a maintenance template for other templates, which tend to be more important to the project.

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
• Category:Wikipedia template cleanup