[WikiEN-l] Userboxes: A rational proposal

[Tony Sidaway]

On 2/18/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My thoughts: move all userboxes to user: space, so that they are
> obviously not official and not part of the encyclopedia project
> proper.  Then ignore them except for awful examples.

Look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Projects/Userboxes

Isn't this amazing?  The guy is getting fan mail on his user talk page
because he's replacing templates with equivalent wiki code!

And see this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Projects/Userboxes/Policy

I think this is the future.