This is Willscrlt's gallery of userboxes that he created. Please note that this page include boxes made for other people by request. As a results, the boxes on this page do not necessarily represent Will's opinions, beliefs, or memberships.

My custom trans-wiki-friendly versions of standard Userboxes

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Please see each template for the attributes that can be used with each box. See below for an explanation about why these userboxes were created and what makes them special.

{{User:Willscrlt/meta/Userbox}}

id info


{{User:Willscrlt/meta/Userbox-r}}

info id


{{User:Willscrlt/meta/Userbox-2}}

id1 info id2



Wikipedia WikiProjects

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The following templates are for members and participants in various Wikipedia WikiProjects. Simply add this userbox to your user page to indicate your affiliation. Of course, if you aren't participating, you probably shouldn't display the userbox.

WikiProject Bartending supports both the Bartending Guide on the English Wikibooks and all bartending-related encyclopedic material on the English Wikipedia. Place the appropriate userboxes on your Wikipedia user page. You should use the Wikibooks userboxes on your Wikibooks user page. Please also add your name to both of the lists of active participants on English Wikibooks and on English Wikipedia.
  This user is a WikiBooks participant in the WikiProject Bartending.  


Attributes
  This user is a Bartending Task Force Participant.  


Attributes

{{User:Willscrlt/UBX/WPChile|en}}

  This user is a member of WikiProject Chile in English.



See the userbox page for many examples of how you can customize the userbox for different languages and projects.

Also add your name to the list of active participants.
 This WP Food & Drink's
Herbs & Spices task force
Participant
enjoys many varieties of herbs.


Attributes
  • {{{1}}} (optional): Provide links (if possible) to your favorite herbs.
For simple copy and paste examples, see the instructions.
 This WP Food & Drink's
Herbs & Spices task force
Participant
enjoys many varieties of spices.


Attributes
  • {{{1}}} (optional): Provide links (if possible) to your favorite spices.
For simple copy and paste examples, see the instructions.
Also add your name to the list of active participants.
 This Desserts Taskforce Participant enjoys ice cream.


Attributes
  • {{{1}}} (optional): Provide links (if possible) to your favorite flavor and product.
For simple copy and paste examples, see the instructions.
Also add your name to the list of active participants.
 This Beverages Task Force participant enjoys cocktails. 


Attributes
 This Beverages Task Force Participant enjoys Example.


Attributes
  This Beverages Task Force Participant enjoys garnishes.  


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  This WikiProject Mixed Drinks Participant enjoys garnishes.  


Attributes
 This Beverages Task Force participant enjoys beer cocktails. 


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  This Beverages Task Force Participant enjoys shooters.  


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 This Beverages Task Force participant enjoys shots. 


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 This Beverages Task Force participant enjoys wine cocktails.Wine


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Also add your name to the list of active participants.


Attributes
Also add your name to the list of active participants.
  This user is a participant in WikiProject Transwiki.


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For Sister Wiki Projects

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See also WikiProject Bartending above for the Wikibooks project

These may be used to link to sister projects. Each accepts one or more parameters including your user name at the sister project site (which is often, but not always the same as here).

Wikimedia Commons

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Attributes
  • {{{1}}} (required): Your user name at Commons.
  • {{{2}}} (optional): media (the default value), images, audio, etc.
  • |categories=no (optional): Suppresses categories

General userboxes

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Scottish clans

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  This user is of the Clan Murray"Tout Pret"  


  This user is of the Fotheringham sept of Clan Lindsay"Endure fort"  


  • {{User:Willscrlt/UBX/ClanBox|clan = Lindsay|sept = Fotheringham|motto = Endure fort|img1 = Clan member crest badge - Clan Lindsay.svg|img1-s = 35|img2 = Arms of Lindsay (Earl Crawford).svg|id2-c = white}}
  This user is of the Clan Campbell"Ne Obliviscaris"  


Many more clan and sept names are recognized, and there are several more attributes you can use to customize the results. See the instructions for complete details.

Transportation

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  This user has been hot air ballooning.  


  This user is a hot air balloon pilot.  


  This user loves hot air ballooning!  


  This user enjoys hot air ballooning.  


  This user wants to go hot air ballooning.  


  This user has crashed in a hot air balloon and lived!  


  This user has been hot air ballooning one or more times.  


Attributes
  • "count": Gives a count of times you've flown in a hot air balloon
  • If no number is given, the text indicates you have flown "more than one times"
  This user has been hot air ballooning 2 times.  


Attributes
  • "count": Gives a count of times you've flown in a hot air balloon
  • 2: Set to the number of flights you've taken


Trans-wiki usage of my userboxes

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Since there are already hundreds, if not thousands, of userboxes that describe gender, heritage, values, beliefs, orientations, physical traits, addictions, and views on nearly any topic, I am not likely to create any of that type of userbox, and I am very unlikely to make such a box even upon request.

My main interest in creating new userboxes are for WikiProjects and sister Wikis. I now try to make userboxes I create as cross-wiki compatible as possible. Theoretically, you should be able to pick up one of my userboxes here, copy it to your favorite wiki, and it has a good chance of working as-is.

I have noticed that most WikiMedia Foundation sites only have the Template:Userbox installed, and several of those are older versions or custom versions that do not support the same attributes as the ones do here. To help with that, I now install three templates on every wiki where I setup a user page. The templates are: {{{{ns:user}}:Willscrlt/UBX/Userbox}}, {{{{ns:user}}:Willscrlt/UBX/Userbox-r}}, and {{{{ns:user}}:Willscrlt/UBX/Userbox-2}}. The "{{ns:user}}" simply means "User" or whatever the local user namespace is on the other wiki based on its language.

If I do not have an account on your favorite wiki, you are welcome to copy the contents of these templates to your own account. You could even save it in the main template namespace. For example, you might add my Userbox-2 to a wiki that only has Userbox and name it Template:Userbox-2 — if local wiki policies permit you to do so. Otherwise, you should probably install it in your own user space as I have done. Change the username on the local machine to your username (it would be kind of silly to point it to my name if I don't have an account there).

Most of my newer userboxes include a version number and link to my version of the userbox. I do ask that you keep that information intact for troubleshooting and support. If a template "breaks" it will be helpful to be able to compare it to the same version. I also consider it to be adequate attribution compliance for GFDL, Creative Commons, or other licensing requirements. Note: If you trans-wiki this outside of the WikiMedia Foundation sites, you will need to change the link to my user boxes to read something like this:
//en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Willscrlt/UBX

Because of the fairly esoteric trans-wiki syntax, these templates will not be as easy for other editors to edit unless they have a good understanding of templates, variables, magic words, parser functions, and the parser functions extension. That doesn't mean that the userboxes are difficult to use—quite the contrary. It just means that if someone tries to tweak one of the master Userbox templates a bit, the templates are likely to break. Also, I can't guarantee that they will work on every wiki out there. I constantly find situations where the templates have to be tweaked a bit to improve compatibility. That is why the version numbers increase. If a current userbox works for you, there's probably no reason to upgrade it to the latest version. I probably just fixed something that only shows up on a few wikis.

Feel free to leave me a comment or question about my userboxes. If you have an interesting idea for a new userbox, you may talk to me about it there, too.