The use of userboxes is strongly encouraged on Appropedia.
Userboxes are a way to express yourself and network with other members of similar interests, and are an important part of networking on Appropedia. Adding one of these userboxes to your userpage, will place the userbox on your userpage, place a link to your userpage in a group page and possibly result in others asking you questions.
Organization membership userboxes are encouraged.
For an international organization or associated organizations, such as the Engineers Without Borders national organizations, the userbox should place the user in the national category and the root category. (e.g. Category:EWB Australia members and Category:EWB members).
The member categories for closely related or similar organizations should link to each other, perhaps under the See also heading. For example:
- Category:Engineers for a Sustainable World members and Category:EWB members should link to each other, and their national counterparts where both organizations exist in the same country.
- Members of local climate change action groups can either make their own template, or can use a general template with their location as an argument. So using {{member ccag|Melbourne}} on their userpage would create an appropriate userbox as well as placing them in the categories Category:CCAG members and Category:CCAG Melbourne members. See discussion for more details.
Usage
- Put {{userboxtop}} at the top,
- Add user box templates,
- Add {{userboxbottom}}.
See these pages for examples:
- User:Lonny
- User:Chriswaterguy
- User:Big Russ
- User:Aaron
- All pages using this template - See those pages marked (inclusion).
Making a userbox
Use {{userbox base}} - this keeps the layout standard, and the stack of userboxes will be nice and tidy. E.g. {{userbox tasks}} is made in this way.
Other userboxes
Note most of these don't use {{userbox base}}, thus they are very non-standard in shape. They could eventually be updated to use the base template.
See user templates for some userboxes, such as:
- {{User alternative building}} and the corresponding Category:Alternative building members
- {{User photovoltaic}} and the corresponding Category:Photovoltaic members
- {{User transportation}} and the corresponding Category:Transport members
- {{User watsan}} and the corresponding Category:Users interested in water and sanitation
- {{User Service Learning}} and the corresponding Category:Service learning members
- {{User Health}} and the corresponding Category:Users interested in Health and safety
See also
Userful templates
- {{userboxtop}}
- {{userboxbottom}}
- {{userboxbreak}}