Template talk:User

Origins
Copied the idea from uncyclopedia. - Aya T C 03:37, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Enhancements
Something like this, but needs to cope with spacey names.

Aya T C 03:37, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The problem appears to be that the parameter is being passed with an underscore in place of the original space (e.g., Robert Horning is being converted to Robert_Horning). We need some way of stripping the underscore back out again before including it in the URL. The problem is that virtually no processing of the parameters is possible within templates, hopefully that will change in future. Geo.T 04:15, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Well. The best I can do with a single parameter is this (I'm using a new template here, since the other one is 'live'):



The links work fine, but the name looks messy.

With two params you could have a inclusion that looks like this:



Aya T E C 04:45, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I've added a second parameter to this template. Just use and it should work fine. I use , which produces . This way, Robert can have the template work by doing what Aya suggested above, but no need to use 'user2'. As my signature shows, you can use this to do whatever you want: change a %20 into a space, or change your username into Greek. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk | email | contribs ) 22:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Documentation
Will it be better to replace 'Jimbo Wales' and 'Bill Bailey' with 'John Smith'? John Smith appears commonly in Wikipedia guidelines and honestly I've never heard of Bill Bailey. :P Kayau 15:17, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * How about Jimbo Wales -> Karl Wick (the founder of Wikibooks) and Bill Bailey -> E=MC^2. The last one is supposed to be an example of a user with an = sign in their name and it actually had been Billbailey=legend before I edited it.  E=MC^2 is actually a user here with a user page. – Adrignola talk 15:37, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't see why we even need a bunch of practically duplicate templates. Seems like we would be better of with just this one template with some parameters like checkuser=yes, global=yes, admin=yes, etc. to add more links. Getting back on topic though I think John Smith, Test, or Test user would be better than an account in use by a person because whatever name is used might get unwanted attention. --dark lama  16:10, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * We had a handful of User* templates already, so I went about cleaning them up, ensuring they had documentation, ensuring they had a consistent look, checking that links still worked, and checking for categorization or protection needs. I only brought in a few that we didn't already have.  I certainly expected an objection from you, Darklama, and am aware of situations like with CompactTOC8 handling all the other variations besides CompactTOC.  I didn't import all the CompactTOC* templates, for instance, because there it makes sense to avoid template duplication.  With these, people don't want to have to throw in a huge number of parameters to a template that's supposed to save time and hassle.  When I import histories, you can't tell what was already here and in use.  All I can say is that you should compare the length of Template:User information templates with w:Template:User information templates to see how I'm not doing a full-fledged pull. – Adrignola talk 16:30, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * We had only a few to begin with. I saw that most of the templates did not exist yet when you first began importing. How do you know what people do or don't want? There doesn't seem to be any reasoning to what you decide to import. I guess I'm a bit involved and annoyed because I spent time in the past trying to reduce the number of templates we had because many were going unused and remembering which to use in what cases wasn't easy either. People are trying to find ways to make Wikipedia easier for more users to use, and I think Wikibooks was better off than Wikipedia in that regard, lets not repeat Wikipedia's mistakes. There is also no reason to assume that older templates Wikibooks had were copied from Wikipedia or even based on what Wikipedia had, so by importing you also potentially endanger Wikibooks' own unique history since merges make it harder to follow edit histories.
 * I think there isn't a need to have a whole lot of parameters. I think the first thing is the links provided from User0 through User4 can be the default links shown with just a few additional parameters for the tools that Wikibooks has with global working with the other parameters to provide global logs when checkuser or admin links are wanted for example. --dark lama  16:57, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit counter
The edit counter used in this template no longer exists, or is in a different location. I fixed this on the  by changing it to this counter, which is the one used on Special:Contributions. I can't do that here because it's protected, so an admin needs to change this.  Liam987 ( talk ) 17:03, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes_check.svg Done Thanks for pointing this out. I had remembered to fix the box below the listings on user contributions pages but forgot about templates using the same tool. – Adrignola discuss 14:35, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello, the counter has changed again for several months now, the current URL is a long redirection. Can an administrator update it to https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?lang=en&wiki=wikibooks&name=Example please?

Moreover, the five links of this template should have the class "noprint" because they're meaningless offline (eg: First Aid/Authors in PDF). JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:49, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:15, 25 July 2016 (UTC)