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.

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.

Parentage

Participants

  • CG 17:55, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
  • --Actown e 04:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC) (Will revamp WikiProject)[reply]

Projects

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.
  • Develop the new proposal on Wikipedia:Infobox standardisation.

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

  • {{ttl}} (t=talk, l=links)
    example: {{ttl}} (t/l)

Template sandboxes

Pages

Lists of templates

Wikipedia policies and projects about templates

Guidelines

Projects

Help pages

Meta-pages

Other proposals about templates

Requests