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.

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[edit] Project goals

The main scope of this Wikiproject is:

Help managing the Template namespace of Wikipedia.

It consists of:

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.
Solving specific templates issues like Wikipedia:Template standardisation, Wikipedia:Template locations
Improving the documentation on how to create and use templates on the Wikipedia in addition to the documentation of individual templates.
Cleaning out the unused, unneeded and rebundant templates using the Template for deletion project.
Providing help and guidance in creating, updating, correcting, and testing templates.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

Children

Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings – for user talk namespace template messages
Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates – for inline templates
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting – for stub templates
The Infobox Watch – a central location for infobox designers to assist each other
Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization

Related

WikiProject Microformats – addition of microformats to appropriate templates
Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories

[edit] 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 this userbox to your user page: {{User:Willscrlt/UBX/UbxWPT1Crochets}}

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)
[[ISOLA'd ELBA 19:28, 8 May 2007 (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
Bluegoblin 7 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)
DiligentTerrier • talk |sign here 23:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
JackSchmidt (talk • contribs • count) 05:43, 27 February 2008 (UTC) - I enjoy template development
- SigmaEpsilon → ΣΕ 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
Electrical Experiment (talk • contribs • count)

[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.