User:PC-XT/KIS

This page includes my templates and recommendations for pseudoproject WP:KIS. Feel free to comment on the talk page.

Resources

The Keep It Simple project developed these resources:

Labels as mini userboxes: WP:KIS/label with documentation at WP:KIS and WP:KIS/label
Babel labels, moved to WP:KIS/Babel and now with documentation at WP:Keep It Simple/Babel
WikiProject labels
Custom labels
Containers:
WP:Keep It Simple/tray top and WP:Keep It Simple/tray bottom
WP:Keep It Simple/box top and WP:Keep It Simple/box bottom
{{tl|user icon corner top}} and {{tl|user icon corner bottom}} were used by the project as icon/label containers
There may be others documented in WP:Keep It Simple/Options
Mini lapel pin barnstars: I want to look into making one template to handle them all.

The idea was to have this stuff smaller, overlapping, and simple-looking so it wouldn't take over the page.

Similar things that cooperate:

{{t|top icon}}, which is used in a few newer KIS templates
{{Tl|Usbktop}}, {{Tl|Usbkbottom}} and {{Tl|Usbk}} are for display of userbox templates
User icons overlapped the project in the past, using {{tl|user icon corner top}} and {{tl|user icon corner bottom}}, intermixed with lapels or labels.
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Flag_Template
Perhaps any other icons that may exist.

The new page should be in your userspace, preferably as a subpage of one named KIS, after WP:UM.

WikiProject labels may be a subpage in project space.

New labels as subpages of WP:KIS or Wikipedia:Keep It Simple are not recommended, at least not without discussion on Wikipedia Talk:Keep It Simple.

In the template documentation, include :Category:Keep It Simple templates. Note that userbox guidelines discourage userboxes from adding categories to user pages, even though many do so. Use the category options built into {{WP:KIS/label}} carefully.

There are two widely used methods:

The organized way is to use a capital letter prefix, such as W: for Wikipedia-related labels, or WP: for wikiprojects. These prefixes are listed on WP:KIS.
The custom way is without these prefixes. Some find the prefixes distracting, confusing or just archaic, and omit them in their own labels.

KIS was started as a WikiProject for an alternative to userboxes. Since it didn't relate directly to articles, it was found to not be a real project. This pseudoproject used to have labels in Template space, but since this discussion, all have been migrated to either userspace or subpages of WP:KIS or WP:Keep It Simple. This page was used to plan some of this migration. (archived migration version of this page) I continue to improve labels as I have time. (Archived more recent worklist)

A current full list can be found at Special:PrefixIndex/User:PC-XT/KIS/

{{usbk|User:PC-XT/KIS/vg|category=Wikipedian vector graphics editors}}

{{tl|WP KIS}} is a template for KIS, though in WP pseudonamespace instead of user pseudonamespace. This may or may not be close enough to project space. - left alone for now
{{tl|user icon corner top}}, {{tl|user icon corner bottom}}, and other user icon templates are in good standing elsewhere, but are also used by KIS.
{{tl|user labels}} is a test userbox, unrelated to KIS, that one inactive User:Discordance currently uses.