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 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:
- 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.
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.
Participants
Projects
Template namespace
- Display all templates.
- A better organisation of templates into subpages.
- 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.
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
- {{tic}}
- example: Template:tic (talk links edit)
- {{ti}}
- example: Template:ti (talk · links · edit)
- {{Template link with parameters}} and its redirects {{Tl2}}, {{Tlp}} & {{Template2}}
- example: {{Template link with parameters|parameter2}}
Template sandboxes
- {{Template sandbox}}
- {{x1}}
- {{x2}}
- {{x3}}
Pages
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
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate text
Wikipedia policies and projects about templates
Guidelines
- Wikipedia:Template namespace
- Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-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
Projects
- Wikipedia:Template standardisation
- Wikipedia:Infobox standardisation
- Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits
- Wikipedia:Template locations, ongoing survey
Help pages
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
- Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Proposal - a failed proposal
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/T1
Requests
Meta has related information at: Help:Template