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This page is a guideline for completion status project boxes. They can also be thought of as "development cycle" indicators. Purpose of these project boxeseditThe main purpose of these project boxes is to categorise resources into one of five development status categories so that Wikiversity users can more easily sort out what they want to look at.
Disadvantages: Wikiversity resources have many different kinds of development cycles, not all of which will fit with the simple system used here. Imposing a 5-level system of development status on any project (let alone Wikiversity) is, to some extent, arbitrary and may simply not fit some cases. However the usefulness of an approximate system of development indicators outweighs this. To compensate for any misleading or other inappropriate effect of completion status project boxes, a number of modification options are available to individual users, including change icon, change text and append text, along with a system of "fun-looking" default boxes that will appeal to some people (but not everyone). All of these methods can be combined so that one can tag a resource with a completion status and, at the same time, convey the impression one feels is appropriate to a particular resource's development cycle. Tagging resource pages by completion statuseditSerious-looking boxeseditWrite the template code into your resource at any point on the page. As well as an attractive template appearing, the resource will be automatically categorised. If you change the template later, the categories will be automatically updated.
Fun-looking boxeseditThis is an alternative set of templates which is more fun. There are different names for these tags - you may prefer to use the short and friendly names like {{nearlythere}}. The percentages given are highly subjective - what really counts is how the templates categorise the resource. There are five categories for completion status, ranging from freshly started to complete. Some of these categories have two or more "fun" project boxes - e.g. {{launch}} and {{yawn}} result in the same categorisation ("partly complete"), but look very different on the page. Please feel welcome to create alternative project boxes. Suggestions can go on the talk page, for example.
Progress Bar Boxesedit
More boxesedit
Modifying the project boxeseditThis section explains how to modify project boxes to suit your own preferences for describing educational resource development cycles. Please note that the important thing about project boxes is their categorisation function (which remains the same in the examples), along with the option to retrospectively apply parser functions via the template. The visible component of the project boxes is of secondary importance, so there's no harm in applying personal preferences when tagging resources which are mainly your own work. Example #1editYou can simply append some text, shown here applied to the "halfway" template.
{{halfway|add --[[User:Baah and Bahh]]}} Example #2editThis uses simple text modification, applied to the "halfway" template. This time we've change the whole text, rather than just adding some to the default.
{{halfway|text=We started this but ran out of ideas. Can someone give us some input, please? --[[User:Baah and Bahh]]}} Example #3editThis goes a step further, modifying the icon as well.
{{halfway|icon=Domestic Goat Portrait (aka).jpg|text=We started this but ran out of ideas. Can someone give us some input, please? --[[User:Baah and Bahh]]}} Tagging resource lists by completion statuseditSometimes you will want to put indicators onto list pages which indicate a resource's completion status. There's no room for a project box here; you need something smaller. These are the available mini-indicators: {{0Percent}}
{{25Percent}}
{{50Percent}}
{{75Percent}}
{{100Percent}}
And this is what they look like:
Tagging resources with a bare categoryeditIf you prefer not to use a project box, then you can simply categorise the resource instead under one of the following categories. Please note that if you use a project box, categorisation is automatic. Percentages are only a very rough guide. Please note that if you tag with a bare category rather than a project box, you will prevent maintenance staff from including your resource in parser function sorting.
Meta-templates and template quick access (admin use only)edit
See alsoedit
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