Wouldn't the example user featured on the example not be able to create an infobox if his IQ was 0? (He'd be profoundly mentally retarded.) Or is the Wikiworm (or what ever it's called) in a species all its own that doesn't have IQs? If so then his IQ could be written as "not applicable." Sorry, the zero just gets to me. Purplewowies (talk) 11:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to add a parameter for the background colour of the infobox? (Not the bar along the top, the entire infobox) xenocidic ( talk ¿ listen ) 15:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I was thinking of putting this neat infobox to my userpage instead of Infobox Person, but the view of userboxes is spoiled in a way the inside of userboxes is moved upwards some 10 pixels, almost hovering each box with the one below it. I tried to check out the code, but eventually I had no good idea. I'd be glad if someone could check and fix this some time. Thanks.--Kochas (talk) 12:52, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems it vertically realigns the text in the userbox from whatever it is set to and changes it to "top alignment". I too ran into this issue. Kochas, if someone doesn't respond to this within a day or so, you should echo the request at WP:VPT. –xenocidic (talk)13:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
This is due to some userboxen being coded to just use a hand-hacked table instead of using the {{userbox}} template. This means that they're missing some ids which allow them to be styled properly. It's easy to migrate userboxen to use the {{userbox}} base template, which is the Right Way to fix this. I've already converted across most of the common language proficiency examples. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk13:37, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I recently performed some updates and fixes, in an attempt to put things right. Let me know if I did wrong, or if you would like to suggest anything. Kind regards. Rehman(+)12:54, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Bloodtype and Personalitytype fail to show up in the Infobox when a value is given. Can anyone verify and/or correct this? Thanks. -- Saaga (talk) 02:30, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
This is Infobox User, for fellow Wikipedians! Add whatever junk you want (be sensible though), if someone doesn't like a particular field, simple exclude it. ;) Rehman02:01, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
please add on a parameter for ancestral hometowns, because this is important, if not more dear than the "hometown" (if different), in East Asian culture. --HXL何献龙14:20, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I would do it if you explain me what should be displayed and the prefered location i the template. (above which parameter, etc.) mabdul11:17, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
{{Infobox user
| relationship = This is a test
| partner = This is a test
| children = This is a test
| occupation = This is a test
| interests =
| userboxes =
}}
The title and example given says it all. Some of the entries don't actually show up at all... The "relationship" and "partner" entries don't show up, even though a parameter is given. (I didn't test every one, but I noticed this somewhere.) AuroraIllumina03:14, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Does anybody know why IQ is not visible in this infobox? I find that an annoying aspect of this template. If anybody has the answer let me know. Thanks. Lighthead...KILLS!!00:36, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Actually, nevermind. I guess I fixed it but it took some time for the changes to register (?) The point is I achieved what I was trying to do. Lighthead...KILLS!!02:04, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Formatting issues
seems to be an issue with the youtube field, it doesn't want to allow the URL to be formatted like the normal methods. tried checking to see if there was any documents on inserting a link to a youtube channel, but nothing showing a link to a youtube channel, just how to insert a video.Skarrd (talk) 20:22, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Edit count
I honestly don't spend much time at the Village Pump, so what I say might not be true or anything, but here goes...
So the Edit Count you get from the link in your contributions tab is hosted by labs, however in this infobox clicking the 'Edit count' field links to the toolserver. The toolserver's stats seem out of date, shouldn't the link be changed to link to labs? Thanks, DarkToonLinkHeyaah!08:06, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
I've added a |role= parameter, which defaults to "Wikipedian"; that can be changed to anything you like: Wikimedian, Wikignome, Inclusionist, or something more humorous.
I've also switched |gender= so that it displays as an icon (marked up as an abbreviation) next to that subheader. Doesanyone use this for a value other than "male" or "female"? Is there an icon for "other" or "gender-queer" that should be offered as a third choice? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits21:50, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
I had linked [[Male]] so it didn't work anymore. It's probably best to clarify in the documentation which values can be used for gender. SPQRobin (talk) 23:20, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Robin, any value "should" work. Thank you for reporting this, I will look into it and make it so that you can have the linked text instead of the symbol if that is what you prefer. :) Happy editing! Technical 13 (talk) 00:28, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Well, the symbol is nice. As long as it was text, I preferred a link :) I just thought it only accepted certain values now. SPQRobin (talk) 10:23, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
I actually did make the modification above and the template will take any input for gender. So, Robin's [[Male]] should now work. Also, Andy, the template gives icons for any of the values of f, female, m, male, o, or other which are case insensitive. :) Technical 13 (talk) 13:21, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedian instead of Wikipedian Unknown by default
Andy, Apparently {{Abbr}} doesn't accept images. I've modified it to use the html entity code instead. If this is unacceptable (I know it doesn't render in Windows Vista, but personally don't care), then we can "fake" it another way... Just let me know. Technical 13 (talk) 14:23, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Why is Wikipedian male the default? My Wikipedia userbox has started telling me I am male. I have never told wiki my gender. I have stopped using the template on my page, would prefer to not have to have a symbol.Clare. (talk) 00:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Don't worry, I have worked it out: you need to put the gender value in, then leave blank:
Personally I would prefer that the box didn't default to male when no gender value set, but I don't know how to fix it so in the interim I will do this.Clare. (talk)
I don't know how the userbox code would read that, but even if it can, why is it messing up on mine? (See boxes on right for example of what I mean)Clare. (talk) 13:05, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
The boxes to the right aren't accurate because they are not on your user page. It works like this, the code that determines the default looks like:
Which means that it pulls your username with {{#titleparts:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|1}} using #titleparts: based on BASEPAGENAME. It then uses the username to pull the gender of the user from whatever is on Preferences → User profile → How do you prefer to be described? using Gender:. I've added some code to make the default gender go away if not on the page of an existing user. I hope this explanation isn't overly technical. :) I took a few moments and went through and tested all of the settings on my user page and created a collage of screenshots that I merged and cropped into the screenshot below so you can see it working as intended.
How about adding a few website fields like MySpace, Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, etc. Or maybe just a field for "Other websites I'm part of". What's everyone think? ΔnnuitCœptis04:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Also, would it be a good idea to maybe add a section regarding Beliefs? I don't really think one field for Religion and one for Politics that are meant to be one-line answers are quite enough. Maybe make it similar to the Userboxes and Interests sections, where it's not a one-line answer, but a longer one. ΔnnuitCœptis07:29, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I never made facebook as an inspiration to my edit, but then why do you guys think MOVIES, BOOKS (seriously) and TV SHOWS can be added while FOOD, SPORTS and MUSIC cant be added...? Basically, we all know food, music and sports are more common/important...There are not userboxes for everything you know. Also, who gives a crap about BLOOD TYPE :S. And I have a point here, that people can be from more than one nationality so 'country' is not the right word. LANGUAGES are very important when it comes to wikipedia. So, take my advice, add languages, nationality, food, music and sports. (By the way personality test thing is way too ungeneral). Zodiac Sign and laterality (palmistry, better than blood type at least) are not important in your culture, but they are very important in different asian cultures - so it matters to people from culture to culture. Also, USER BOX is for user pages, and we can do WHATEVER (almost) we want to on our userpages, rules dont usually apply. Farjad0322 (talk) 14:16, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
It's arguable that this template already tries to do far too much. While we allow users a lot of leeway on their userspace, this does not imply that they should be jamming their user pages full of every bit of trivia about their personalities that they can; we've already got userboxes to handle that. I'd rather that we tried to keep the infobox sane, as adding options at will will result in it being ridiculously long. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk22:39, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Very well! Since there are rules for user pages as well, we cant put our trivia, we need to remove the absolutely unecessary fields like TV Shows, Books, Movies etc and especially the IQ and personality type thing...We should not be needing hair, eyes (its not like a dating site, right?) and blood group (blood types are for medical emergencies only hence have no use on wikipedia). But I still insist that we add languages (its important on wikipedia) and nationality (replaced with 'country', we can be nationals of more than one country). Agreed? Farjad0322 (talk) 07:35, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Let's concentrate on the additions first: the deletions will need a bit more discussion as people may be using them. Languages are covered by {{babel}}, but adding a nationality field sounds sensible. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk08:03, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
How about an authors field? There is the books field, but sometime people tend to really like an author in general, and not just one or more books by her/him. Paul2520 (talk) 05:59, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
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Put the "Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanovsky" there to illustrate the margin. It has a huge margin when collapsed, then swallows it up when a table is expanded. How, if at all, can you get past this? Mystipedian (talk) 22:35, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
I think you're talking about next infobox (on the right side of this page), but that's not mine. I gave you a link to the template testcase page. Please follow this link to see my redesigned above section of the template. -- Alireza Eskandarpour Shoferi (talk) 16:25, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Czarkoff, I see you started to add some usergroup specifics, and I kind of like that idea. Would you mind expanding it to include more groups (what I added to my userpage so far). What would be really cool is if there was a way to make a vertical timeline out of the data, but I'll have to mock that up in the sandbox and it will likely need its own toggle parameter so those that (don't) want it can turn it on/off. Once it is ready for use, we can have a discussion if it should be on/off by default. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c)23:27, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Would anyone mind if I changed this to show gender as part of the text rather than just an icon? This template currently provides no way to display a custom value, and that bothers me. I could not find any discussion of this specific point in the archives, though there was some talk about an icon. Alternatively, we could have it show a gender-neutral icon of some sort when a custom value was put in and have the tooltip show the exact text of it. ekips39❦talk04:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
By "a custom value" I meant being able to display a specific kind of "other", not just other. There are many different kinds of non-binary genders such as genderfluid, agender and bigender, and some people might want to specify those rather than being limited to saying they're non-binary. ekips39❦talk19:05, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Late reply I know, but just for the record yes that is what I was trying to do, I just couldn't figure out how to do it. Cheers. Freikorp (talk) 12:16, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Account statistics
I may have missed something obvious, but what exactly am I supposed to put in the fields like "reviewer" and "rollbacker" to indicate that i have said permissions? Freikorp (talk) 00:38, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
@Aaron McHale: It seems indeed that, at least some YouTube channels currently can not be linked using the "|youtube=...", due to automatic redirect to http://www.youtube.com/user/... Nevertheless, simply changing that redirect to https://youtube.com/c/... will not solve the problem: this does not work for at least some YouTube channels, according to my attempts. Unless somebody has more knowledge about what single trail in the URL will allow access to any arbitrary YouTube channel, I suggest that all relevant parameters from Template:YouTube are enabled to be used inside the "|youtube=..." parameter of Template:Infobox Wikipedia user (which is currently not the case, according to my attempts). (Verheyen Vincent (talk) 06:16, 22 July 2016 (UTC))
What does the phonemodel variable do exactly? As far as I can tell, it doesn't really do anything. --MorbidEntree-(Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)(Contribs)(please reply using {{ping}},(unless this is on my own talk page) otherwise I may not see your reply) 11:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Actually, I looked at the source code of the template and it doesn't seem to be in there at all. Contemplating removing it from the documentation. --MorbidEntree-(Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)(Contribs)(please reply using {{ping}},(unless this is on my own talk page) otherwise I may not see your reply) 11:21, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Should New page reviewer be added now that it is a permission? I'm not very good with editing templates (infoboxes especially). (Please {{Ping}} me to respond)JTP(talk • contribs)23:24, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I also suggest possibility to add a couple of project participation also. The danish user infobox has an interesting parameter: | samarbejdspartnere = which translates to cooperation partners. I kind of like that, and think that parameter could eventually stimulate users who share same interest and cooperate, to confirm in writing that they really assist each other. Dan Koehl (talk) 18:35, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 20 February 2017
Please add support for the gender parameter. It's listed in the documentation, but yet it doesn't actually exist. Want to use it on my userpage, but I can't use it due it not being a real parameter. I'd really appreciate it if the gender parameter was added. Also, by parameter, I mean, add a label to the infobox that shows the gender instead of showing just an icon. :) - Kamran Mackey (talk to me · my contributions) 21:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
Not done. The documented gender tag is used to place the user page in the appropriate gender-specific category and display the icon. Nothing in the documentation states that it is used to create a Gender label in the infobox itself. As making this change would change the appearance of any user pages using the |gender= parameter to display the icon, please gain consensus before using the {{edit template-protected}} template. --Ahecht (TALK PAGE) 14:59, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
If there is consensus, I could add a Gender label with the value {{#switch:{{{gender|}}}|m|male|f|female|o|other=|{{{gender|}}}}}, so it would only show up if it is a value not recognized by the code that produces the icon. --Ahecht (TALK PAGE) 15:14, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Ahecht I would love to see your gender label added, because as of right now my gender is not covered by the icon code and I would like to have it displayed in this template. --Devin Murphy (talk) 03:26, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Again, I'm hesitant about potentially changing existing uses of the template. What about adding a new |custom_gender= parameter? --Ahecht (TALK PAGE) 14:33, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Would this allow for a separate Gender line in the infobox, at an appropriate place towards the top? So a user could include a wikilink, if desired? I like how this would enable more flexibility, but I'd like to see input from non-binary people. = paul2520 (talk) 15:52, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Yes, it would. I mocked it up in the sandbox. I also changed the sandbox version so that if a non-recognized non-blank "gender" value is used, it displays the "other" icon with the specified text displayed in the pop-up (so |gender=agender would display but |gender= would still display no icon). --Ahecht (TALK PAGE) 17:26, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
{{Infobox Wikipedia user/sandbox|name=Example User|gender=Other gender value|custom_gender=Custom gender|birthdate={{start date and age|1900|01|01}}|country=United States}}:
It looks good to me! As I mentioned in a discussion above, it would be great to have a Pronouns field, as well. The user's preferred gender pronouns could be listed. Would it be possible to add this, too? = paul2520 (talk) 18:28, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
I was wondering if the pronoun field could be changed from saying "Preferred pronoun" to say simply "Pronoun", "Pronouns", or "Pronoun(s)" as some folks like me view our pronouns not as a chose, but rather as the only appropriate one or ones to be used when referring to us. --Devin Kira Murphy (talk) 03:25, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
Are Yahoo profiles (http://profiles.yahoo.com/<username>) still supported?
The template has a field which appears to be intended for a Yahoo profile at the URL http://profiles.yahoo.com/xxxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxxxx is likely a Yahoo account or profile name. Wikipedia has a number of links to Yahoo profiles for this URL format. At the same time, it appears that a number of these profile links simply generate two HTTP 301 redirects and then a 404 error. On Wikipedia, a list of discontinued Yahoo services and sites mentions a "Yahoo! Profile" service. This Web Applications Stack Exchange question has answers indicating that the functionality at http://profiles.yahoo.com/ was shut down in January 2015. --Elegie (talk) 06:41, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
While I suppose this isn't technically an edit request, I've removed the Yahoo Profiles parameter from the IB. Primefac (talk) 00:03, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
With regard to Yahoo profiles, I was not sure as to whether support for profiles has been completely removed from Yahoo or whether profiles are, for instance, still supported on Yahoo but at a different URL. Removing the field for Yahoo profiles is probably a useful change to the template, particularly for now. --Elegie (talk) 04:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Please use HTTPS for the template's LinkedIn link
This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.
The purpose of this edit is to provide increased privacy and security for users by having the template use HTTPS when generating links to LinkedIn. The LinkedIn site appears to support HTTPS; for example, see the page for User:Erik.Bjareholt and the page for User:Sunil_Bhanushali. (From what one understands, accessing a user's LinkedIn page may require signing into or signing up for LinkedIn, but at the same time, HTTPS URLs for LinkedIn user pages are functional.) In the template, please change http://www.linkedin.com/ to https://www.linkedin.com/ instead. Thanks. --Elegie (talk) 05:03, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
After trial and error I found out that the username (or what's it called different places), just should be entered for some of the entries under Contact info (instead of a link/URL). It would be nice if this was documented somewhere, preferably both in the example and TemplateData (where there is no descriptions at all by the way). Is it documented elsewhere or should I (or someone else who likes to do it) add it? /PatrikN (talk) 02:08, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 2 September 2018
I made a sandbox test version with Linnean naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg~in order to show how it can look. I guess theres several different identifications that may be of relevance for Wikipedia users, like the present This user is identified to the Wikimedia Foundation. (verify), Committed identity (Template), and others. Dan Koehl (talk) 06:51, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 23 November 2018
Please be more specific. Where should the new line be placed in the infobox? Should the heading for it link to Discord (software)? Pretend I am a competent editor who doesn't know anything about Discord. Or, better, make the change you want in the template's sandbox. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:13, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
I noticed there was a space in the infobox for users to place their Google+ account. Since Google+ has been shut down, should it remain an option? I don't know any user with this filled out, but won't the link just send you to a message from Google saying Google+ has been shut down, or do the profiles remain as a "read-only" profile? --Diriector Doc (talk) 13:20, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
It's still available for corporate/G Suite users, so... technically it's still a viable param? That being said, if it's unused I see no issue with removing it. Primefac (talk) 15:48, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Video games
I vote that a video game field should be added. They're a pretty popular thing, you know. It would be nice to include them, rather than elsewhere on my profile. GrendelNightmares (talk) 02:41, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
I think it would be perfectly acceptible to add them under {{{interests}}} as it's own table. Consider this example and it's code:
Please wrap automatic categorization into users by gender categories in {{#ifeq:{{{nocat|false}}}|false| ... }}, the same way automatic categorization of location categories is wrapped. —andrybak (talk) 09:57, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Literally a second custom header. Currently the template only supports |custom_header=. On the one hand, it is possible to add a second custom header. I'm not sure the usefulness of a second header,though, and I'd wonder where it should be placed; in other words, which two arbitrary custom labels should it be put between? Primefac (talk) 08:49, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
I was thinking of possibly adding nine new custom labels, because if it were to be placed in between one of the existing custom label/data spaces, it might distrupt some users' infobox (though I'm not completely sure). Thank you for all the help. BenevolentBeast (talk) 18:35, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
I'll implement whatever the consensus might be; if there's no further movement I might not add another nine custom labels but I can certainly add a few. Primefac (talk) 18:55, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
I used the infobox, and there is no 'Image' section available. I need to switch to source editing to be able to do it. Is it removed? Or what? GeraldWL09:35, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
This suggestion may break any existing userpages that use these template fields, but due to the two services no longer being available for consumers to use, it would make sense in my opinion if the two options were removed from the available infobox fields. - Kamran Mackey (talk to me · my contributions) 00:10, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
As a note, I'm only "not doing" it for the moment because I'd like to wait and see if anyone has any strong opinions about removing it. Will give it a day or two and then implement if no objections. Primefac (talk) 01:35, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Is there harm in keeping them? I think they're kinda cute, and they don't attempt to link anywhere. AIM gives me nostalgic warm fuzzies from the 1990s. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I unfortunately disagree. Nostalgia isn't entirely a valid reason for leaving fields of shut down services in the infobox. I'd like to think that the infobox is for containing valid fields. Google+ for example was removed from the available infobox fields back when it was first shut down, due to a lack of it simply not being online anymore. AIM / G Talk are no longer important and aren't active anymore. I mean, G Talk's servers may still be active via the XMPP protocol and chat applications supporting said protocol, but the service itself is still inactive and was replaced by Hangouts years ago, so I sadly don't see a point in keeping the fields. Anyways, as a decision was already reached as to whether or not to keep the fields, with the decision being "keep", I will respect the decision as there honestly isn't any harm in keeping them, whether or not the services are active. - Kamran Mackey (talk to me · my contributions) 21:17, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
The {{{youtube}}} parameter is outdated: it links to "/user/{{{youtube}}}" even though that usage has been deprecated by YouTube. The "/user" part should be remove as YouTube redirects everything accordingly. NixinovaTC08:15, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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