On 1/3/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Userboxes started innocously enough, first seeing widespread use with the Babel project, intended to inform users of one another's language skills. But they haven't stayed that way. From helping editors to locate one another by skill, they have evolved into a way for editors to group by conviction.
Tony, I agree these are a problem, but I'm not very familiar with them, so I have a question. What is the difference between having a box on your page saying you're e.g. Hindu, and having yourself listed in a Hindu Wikipedians category? Can the boxes be used to group editors by political or religious affiliation in a way that categories can't?
Sarah