Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates

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 WikiProjects and WikiProject best practices.

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 Template standardisation, 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.

Related WikiProjects

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


 * Related
 * WikiProject Microformats – addition of microformats to appropriate templates
 * WikiProject Categories

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: 


 * 17:55, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * 04:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC) - Will revamp WikiProject
 * 19:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 21:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * (球球PK) 01:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * ISOLA&#39;d ELBA 19:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 21:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 19:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 08:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC) - Intermediate esoteric template developer.
 * 19:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC) - currently overhauling template categorization.
 * Fra nkB 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 02:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC) - I have created many sports templates.
 * 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.
 * 00:24, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * ISOLA&#39;d ELBA (Member since: 8 May 2007)
 * 21:34, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 10:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 20:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC) - currently working on the naval templates
 * 03:24, 15 July 2007 (UTC) - understand parser functions, have created over 25 templates. I'm okay with them.
 * 18:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC) - have worked on several templates, focusing on consistent look and feel.
 * 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
 * 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.

Template namespace

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

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.

Infobox templates

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

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.

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

 * tl and its redirect template
 * example: tl, template


 * tic
 * example: tic


 * ti
 * example: ti


 * lt
 * example:


 * ltt
 * example:


 * ttl (t=talk, l=links)
 * example: ttl


 * tlx
 * example:

Template sandboxes

 * Template sandbox
 * x1
 * x2
 * x3

Types of templates

 * Template messages
 * Navigational templates
 * Infobox templates (list)
 * Stub types
 * Image copyright tags
 * Userboxes

Guidelines

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

Projects

 * Template standardisation
 * Infobox standardisation
 * Transclusion costs and benefits
 * Template locations, ongoing survey
 * WikiProject Inline templates

Help pages

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

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

Other proposals about templates

 * Templates for deletion/Proposal - a failed proposal
 * Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/T1

Requests

 * Templates for deletion
 * Requested templates

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