Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Templates. This page and its subpages 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 talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Contents 1 Project goals 2 Parentage 3 Participants 4 Projects 4.1 Template namespace 4.2 Navigational templates 4.3 Infobox templates 4.4 Country referencing templates 5 Best Template-related pages 6 Templates 6.1 Template sandboxes 7 Pages 7.1 Lists of templates 7.2 Wikipedia policies and projects about templates 7.2.1 Guidelines 7.2.2 Projects 7.2.3 Help pages 7.2.4 Meta-pages 7.2.5 Other proposals about templates 7.3 Requests

[edit] Project goals

The main scope of this Wikiproject is:

Help managing the Template namespace of Wikipedia.

It consists of:

1. Conducting efforts for a better organization, documentation and display of templates in the Template namespace including Navigational templates, Infobox templates, Country referencing templates, Stub types, Image copyright tags, User languages.
2. Solving specific templates issues like Wikipedia:Template standardisation, Wikipedia:Template locations
3. Improving the documentation on how to create and use templates on the Wikipedia in addition to the documentation of individual templates.
4. Cleaning out the unused, unneeded and rebundant templates using the Template for deletion project.
5. Providing help and guidance in creating, updating, correcting, and testing templates.

[edit] Parentage

• One parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:Maintenance.
• The other parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting.
• The third parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories.

[edit] Participants

To become a participant, add your name to the list below. If you like, you can proudly show your participation by adding this userbox to your user page: {{User:Willscrlt/UBX/UbxWPT1Crochets}}

• Cedar-Guardian (talk • contribs • count) 17:55, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
• 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.

[edit] Projects

[edit] Template namespace

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

[edit] Navigational templates

• List all navigational templates.
• Make a good organisation of the page's sections, and consider spliting 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.

[edit] Infobox templates

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Templates

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

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

• {{tic}}

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

• {{ti}}

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

• {{ttl}} (t=talk, l=links)

  example: {{ttl}} (t/l)

• {{tlx}}

  example: {{tlx|parameter2}}

[edit] Template sandboxes

• {{Template sandbox}}
• {{x1}}
• {{x2}}
• {{x3}}

[edit] Pages

[edit] Lists of templates

• Wikipedia:Template messages
• Wikipedia:Navigational templates
• Wikipedia:Infobox templates (and Wikipedia:Infobox)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• Wikipedia:Babel

[edit] Wikipedia policies and projects about templates

[edit] Guidelines

• Wikipedia:Template namespace
• Wikipedia:High-risk templates
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Templates
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Taxobox Usage
• Wikipedia:Disclaimer templates
• Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes
• Wikipedia:Template madness
• Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates (rejected)

[edit] Projects

• Wikipedia:Template standardisation
• Wikipedia:Infobox standardisation
• Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits
• Wikipedia:Template locations, ongoing survey

[edit] Help pages

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

[edit] Meta-pages

• meta:Help:Template
• meta:Help:A quick guide to templates
• meta:Help:Template names, variable names and parameters depending on a variable or parameter

[edit] Other proposals about templates

• Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Proposal - a failed proposal
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/T1

[edit] Requests

• Wikipedia:Templates for deletion
• Wikipedia:Requested templates