This page is an archive of a community-wide discussion. This page is no longer live. Further comments or questions on this topic should be made in a new Senate Hall page rather than here so that this page is preserved as a historic record. Toprawa and Ralltiir 20:42, November 16, 2010 (UTC)
Once upon a time, we had a "Userbox proposal" process. That process was understandably scrapped because the proposals had reached the point of being useless or of too limited scope to the whole community. Instead, instructions for creating individual custom userboxes can be found at Wookieepedia:Userboxes. Well, I have a userbox proposal that I think could be very useful to a lot of people:
- This user uses the Monobook skin
- This user uses the Monaco skin
- This user uses the Oasis skin
I've noticed that many topics here in the Senate Hall are reporting problems certain users a seeing occasionally, and usually it ends up being a problem with a skin (usually Monaco). A troubleshooting question that gets asked a lot is "What skin are you using?". We could probably cut down on having to ask this question if users advertised their skin on their user pages (even better would be if they advertised it in their signature, but that's probably asking for too much). Having official userbox templates would make it very easy. So, before I go off being bold and creating them myself, I want to make sure they won't be immediately deleted. Does this need to go through CT? - Esjs(Talk) 19:02, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- First, Monaco will disappear soon, so we are with two skins. Second, there is no "Oasis" skin, it's "Wikia", typically called "new Wikia". (: --Tm_T (Talk) 19:09, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- I like this idea. Also, the New Wikia Skin is called Oasis. I use Monaco, but obviously not for long. :( MasterFred (Whatever) † 19:25, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, it isn't called that. That was only the project name or whatever. But I like the idea. 1358 (Talk) 19:26, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think there's any special process you have to go through to get a userbox made, just make it. As for getting people to actually use them.....yeah. OLIOSTER (talk) 19:50, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- Oh my bad. :P Well I mean, if we're gonna be forced to use a crappy skin, we might as well give a cool name. Oasis is way better than Wikia. :) But yeah, go ahead and make them. I'll use 'em. We could change the Monaco one to "This user used Monaco." after it's terminated. MasterFred (Whatever) † 21:16, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- I'll support supporting Monobook with this method. :) -- Riffsyphon1024 05:04, October 8, 2010 (UTC)
- Oh my bad. :P Well I mean, if we're gonna be forced to use a crappy skin, we might as well give a cool name. Oasis is way better than Wikia. :) But yeah, go ahead and make them. I'll use 'em. We could change the Monaco one to "This user used Monaco." after it's terminated. MasterFred (Whatever) † 21:16, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think there's any special process you have to go through to get a userbox made, just make it. As for getting people to actually use them.....yeah. OLIOSTER (talk) 19:50, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, it isn't called that. That was only the project name or whatever. But I like the idea. 1358 (Talk) 19:26, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- I like this idea. Also, the New Wikia Skin is called Oasis. I use Monaco, but obviously not for long. :( MasterFred (Whatever) † 19:25, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- Presenting...
- {{User monobook skin}}
- {{User monaco skin}}
- {{User wikia skin}}
- - Esjs(Talk) 16:54, October 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Ahahaha Category:Wookieepedians by skin sounds slightly racist. Loves it. :P Darth Trayus(Trayus Academy) 05:09, October 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Darn, that wasn't the intention.. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:47, October 18, 2010 (UTC)