Template:Major article contributions table/doc

This template summarises an editor's major contributions.

Reading this table

The symbols mean the following:

: this editor has turned an article that had big and not easily solvable problems into something acceptable

: this editor has achieved a Did you know? (DYK) credit for an article by creating or expanding it

: this editor has played a major role in getting an article to good article (GA) status

: this editor has played a major role in getting an article to featured article (FA) status

On the main diagonal, only articles for which exactly one of these has been achieved are counted; below the diagonal, articles are tallied for which the editor has managed to do multiple of them.

For example, in the following table, an editor has gotten a DYK credit for 5 articles, of which articles they've taken 3 to GA status, of which articles they've taken 2 to FA status. For 1 of the articles for which they got a DYK credit, they've not contributed to getting it to GA status but have played a major role in taking it to FA status. They've also taken 4 articles to GA status that they had not previously thoroughly cleaned up or received a DYK credit for.

	0						0
			5				5
	0		3		4		7
	0	0	2	1	0	0	3
(reading this table)

It is assumed that and do not co-occur - that would require an article to fall into severe disrepair after getting into DYK. The honest reason is that the table would become a bit too complicated, and this seems like the least likely combination (?).

Usage

As parameters to this template, simply give the numbers that should go in the table. The order is top row to bottom row, right to left. So, this code:

{{major article contributions table|11|10|9|8|7|6|5|4|3|2|1}}

produces:

	11						11
			10				10
	7		8		9		24
	1	2	3	4	5	6	21
(reading this table)

If the last k numbers are all 0, you can simply leave them out; so, someone who only has DYKs might use:

{{major article contributions table|0|10}}

to produce:

	0						0
			10				10
	0		0		0		0
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
(reading this table)

Motivation

This template is intended for use on people's userpages, as a way to show what one has done without using one userbox per major contribution.