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Project boxes
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Project boxes are attractive and very useful little boxes which you can add to any resource page on Wikiversity using a quick and easy template. There are loads of project boxes, and you can make more. This page shows you how. Exampleedit
The project boxes stacked to the right were inserted using the following code:
This not only looks great and feels like fun, but it also categorises the page under history, science, non-formal education, secondary education and completed resources. These categories are doubly important, because they are used in turn by Wikiversity's major portals and navigation systems. In other words, the resource which contains the boxes becomes much more easily findable via a number of different navigation paths.
Lists of project boxes which you can useeditThe following pages contain galleries of project boxes, together with the codes for inserting them into pages and other helpful information.
Frequent questionseditQ: I'm not sure which of these templates to use for my resource. My resource fits into more than one.
Q: Where should I put this on my page?
Q: How many should I use?
Q: Do I have to use these?
Metadata and project boxeseditThe project boxes project is a Wikiversity metadata tagging system. The projects boxes project has two fundamental premises:
The (almost) logical outcome of these two premises is that metadata/classification must be hidden behind a system similar to that of Wikipedia's userboxes if it is to have any chance of widespread adoption. Project boxes are just like user boxes, but applied to educational resources, and have multi-dimensional classification systems hidden in them. MultiboxeditIf you are familiar with project box names, you can apply several very quickly using the multibox tag. Usage: {{subst:multibox|list of pipe-separated names of project boxes}} Example: {{subst:multibox|languages|french|complete|primary}} Development of project boxeseditRequests for new project boxeseditIf you have a request or idea for a new project box, you are welcome to the suggestion below, with or without an example. Please sign your name with --~~~~. And thank you! Technical notesedit
How to create a new project boxeditYou can start by copying and pasting the following code into a new page in the Template namespace. {{projectbox|theme= |icon={{{icon| }}} |text={{{text|'''[[Help: ]]''': }}}}} <includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}||[[Category: ]]}}</includeonly> <noinclude>[[Category: ]]</noinclude> Then:
Basic theme color palette examples are available on Help:Pretty_boxes. See alsoeditAdmin linksedit
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