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This WikiProject was formed by Wikipedians to better manage this encyclopedia's myriad templates. This page contains their many useful suggestions, and 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 project's talk page and see the to-do list.
Goalsedit
The main goal of this WikiProject is:
To help manage the template namespace of Wikipedia.
Scopeedit
It consists of:
Conducting efforts to better organize, document and display all templates in the template namespace, including: navigation templates, infobox templates, inline templates linking country articles, stub types, image copyright tags and user language templates (Babel).
Solving specific templates issues, such as standardisation and locations.
Improving the general documentation on how to create and use templates, in addition to improving the documentation pages of the individual templates.
Clean-up of the unused, unneeded and/or redundant templates, using the templates for discussion (TfD) process and guidelines.
Providing help and guidance in creating, updating, correcting and testing templates.
WikiProject Infoboxes – a central location for infobox designers to assist each other
WikiProject Inline Templates – for inline templates
WikiProject Stub sorting – for stub templates
WikiProject Succession Box Standardization
WikiProject User warnings – for user talk namespace template messages
Task forcesedit
Unused Templates Task Force – for dealing with the unused templates backlog
Relatededit
WikiProject Categories – maintain Wikipedia's category system
WikiProject Category Suppression – automatic categorization and suppression of it in templates
WikiProject Microformats – addition of microformats to appropriate templates
Participantsedit
Project participants
This user is a participant in WikiProject Templates.
To become a participant, add your name to the list below (in alphabetical order, please). If you like, you can proudly show your participation by adding one of the following templates to your user page:
{{User WP Templates}} (userbox)
BrandonXLF (talk · contribs) - I've been organizing, fixing and making a lot of templates. I also convert templates to lua.
Brustopher (talk · contribs)
Buaidh (talk · contribs)
Cannibaloki (talk · contribs) - I like to correct infoxes about music, bands, templates and so on.
Chochopk (talk · contribs) (球球PK)
Clarkcj12 (talk · contribs)
Daedalus969 (talk · contribs) - I love burying myself in code.
Daniel Mietchen (talk · contribs) - interested in using information from Wikidata
DannyS712 (talk · contribs)
Dawn PScLim (talk · contribs) - I edit a few templates daily and edit their visualtext
Day000Walker (talk · contribs)
DGG (talk · contribs) attempting to make some of the user messages more friendly
Diligent Terrier (talk · contribs)(Not receiving mass messages)
Drilnoth (talk · contribs) - I like working on various templates.
Enterprisey (talk · contribs) - Can't believe I didn't hear about this before now.
emerson7 (talk · contribs) specific interest in navigational template standards
Est. 2021 (talk · contribs)
Fabartus (talk · contribs) - Currently finalizing initial WP:TSP system and structures, which should be a sub-project or sister project of this wikiproject.
Faizhaider (talk · contribs) - created & edited few templates.
HotMess (talk · contribs) - Been adding some TemplateData to TemplateData-less templates I encounter, seeing as nobody else is doing it lol
JackSchmidt (talk · contribs) - I enjoy template development
Jake01756 (talk · contribs)
Jayadevp13 (talk · contribs) I try to promote interconnectivity among Wikipedian articles through templates.
Jesus Presley (talk · contribs)
Ken Tony (talk · contribs)
Kepler-1229b (talk · contribs)
Kralizec! (talk · contribs) - currently working on the naval templates
Lantuszka (talk · contribs)
LikeLakers2 (talk · contribs) - Knows parser functions very well. (ironically, still has to look at mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions and mw:Help:Magic words every so often) Helps clean up Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates using {{subst:User:LikeLakers2/sync-pp}}.
Macbrew (talk · contribs)
Malconfort (talk · contribs)
MarioJump83 (talk · contribs) I frequently edited templates and modules, especially on war maps and COVID-19
Masssly (talk · contribs)
MBisanz (talk · contribs)
MCEllis (talk · contribs)
Mike Peel (talk · contribs) - currently overhauling template categorization.
Nanami-seven-three (talk) - I can built some templates and I can help categorize and list stuff!
Nicky Nouse (talk · contribs) 24 January 2011 - I spend all my time on Wikia and know about template syntax.
Nmajdan (talk · contribs)
nsaa (talk · contribs)
Paine Ellsworth (talk · contribs)
Paulscrawl (talk · contribs) Hacked dozens of templates for work-related MediaWiki install years ago, somehow still in heavy use without me around or proper documentation. Learning better structured template development and documentation to leverage my contributions on Wikipedia.
PC-XT (talk · contribs) varied knowledge, if I don't know something, I want to help find it out
Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) - Especially interested on the addition of microformats to templates (per the microformats project, reducing redundancy and standardising template-property nomenclature, to make life easier for editors. Also their accessibility
Ringbang (talk · contribs)
Robert Skyhawk (talk · contribs)
RobinHood70 (talk · contribs) - I enjoy optimizing templates and adding new functionality. I also have a non-editing bot that can generate a list of all calls to a template with their parameters.
Rubenerd (talk · contribs) Run my own MediaWiki install with custom templates; am fascinated by them! I help fix broken implementations and those using outdated/depracated syntax, particularly navboxes and infoboxes.
Rursus (talk · contribs)
Sam Sailor (talk · contribs)
Satnam S Virdi (talk · contribs)
Sdkb (talk · contribs)
Skeezix1000 (talk · contribs) - 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
Sm8900 (talk · contribs)
SMcCandlish (talk · contribs)
Srolanh (talk · contribs)
Steel1943 (talk · contribs) - I've been creating and updating a lot of "/doc" pages lately...
Technical 13 (talk · contribs)
Terasail (talk · contribs)
The Obento Musubi (talk · contribs)
The Pancake of Heaven! (talk · contribs) - I enjoy making templates, I'll try to work on them some more.
The Userboxer (talk · contribs) - I am available to help with more advanced functions like ParserFunctions, as well as more general HTML/wiki?CSS syntax.
Tlustulimu (talk · contribs)
UserboxMaker35 (talk · contribs)
Unionhawk (talk · contribs)
Vanisaac (talk · contribs) Probably should put my name down if I'm going to be answering questions on the talk page.
VarunFEB2003 (talk · contribs) I adore templates!
WikiCleanerMan (talk · contribs) Creator of the Unused Templates Task Force; here to help reorganize, better update, and create necessary templates.
Yjenith (talk · contribs) - Handling parameters of the templates known to some extent. Major creations: {{Twitter status}} and {{Twitter trends}}.
Young Lecturer (talk · contribs)
Zenexer (talk · contribs)
Open tasksedit
Template namespaceedit
Display all templates.
A better organisation of templates into subpages.
Navigation templatesedit
List all navigational templates.
Make a good organisation of the page's sections, and consider splitting the page into topical subpages.
Precise the location of each template (side or bottom).
Create a good guideline that organise and maybe standardise the creation of navigational templates.
Infobox templatesedit
List all infoboxes
done, but needs keeping up-to-date; see Wikipedia:List of infoboxes
Make a good organisation of the page's sections, and consider spliting the page into topical subpages.
replace direct transclusions of {{Infobox}} with more specific templates.
Country-referencing templatesedit
List all country-referencing templates, including countries and nations that no longer exist.
Solving the issues on the used country codes and flags.
Otheredit
Answer requests for comment
Create requested templates
Best template-related pagesedit
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.
Templatesedit
Project banneredit
{{WikiProject Templates}} *deleted* (as of Jan 2010) see TfD discussionRestored with coding that bans categorization onto template talk pages unless it is shown that it is a maintenance template for other templates, which tend to be more important to the project.