userbox
nounUK /ˈjuːzəˌbɒks/ · US /ˈjuzɚˌbɑks/
Etymology Compound of user + box.
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A simple, standardised box placed on a webpage to indicate the user's proficiencies or preferences.
- I wasn't satisfied with the retrogamer userbox, so I created a new one.2006, Lee K Seitz, “Any Wikipedians here?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet):
- Creating a userbox template for posting on member editors' user pages.2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual:
1 more example
- Currently, this userbox-mania is tending to decrease on Russian Wikipedia, being systematically repressed by administrators, but it is still thriving in the Ukrainian edition.2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva (eds.), Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States, page 134:
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Internet A graphic modelled after this, shared on various social media websites.
- thank you all!! All 10613 of you!!! Maybe more now!! Here’s to many more userboxes being made!!❤❤2016 September 21, userboxes, retrieved 07 Jul 2014:
- Made some plural userboxes, feel free to use! (With or without credit) - Ben Levine2022 January 30, r/plural, retrieved 07 Jul 2014: