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

Resources

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The Keep It Simple project developed these resources:

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

Similar things that cooperate:

How to make labels

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Page naming conventions

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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.

Categories

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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.

Label text

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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.

How we got here

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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)

Templates in my userspace

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

Code Result
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/BASIC}} Usage
Category:User BASIC
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/BASIC|0}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/Go (board game)}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/Python}} Usage
Category:User python
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/Wikipedia related}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/Wikipedia related|TfD}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/Wikipedian for}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/Wikipedian for|2012|11|4}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/Wikipedian for|2001|1|15}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/color}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/color|blue}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/color|green}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/contribs}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/css}} Usage
Category:User css
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/editcount}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/html}} Usage
Category:User html
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/interest}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/letter|A}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/letter|a}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/letter|Aa}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/letter|Pi}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/letter|Ye}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/letter|Sigma}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/lisp}} Usage
Category:User lisp
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/math}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/number}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/php}} Usage
Category:User php
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/physics}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/sandbox}} Usage
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/template}} Usage
Category:User template coder-1
{{User:PC-XT/KIS/vg}} Usage
Category:Wikipedian vector graphics editors

Miscellaneous

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  1. {{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
  2. {{user icon corner top}}, {{user icon corner bottom}}, and other user icon templates are in good standing elsewhere, but are also used by KIS.
  3. {{user labels}} is a test userbox, unrelated to KIS, that one inactive User:Discordance currently uses.