Template talk:User Good Articles reviewed

User link

I would like to change this template so that "This user" links to This user (except with his or her specific username inserted), thus prompting each user to create a page showing which GA reviews have been conducted. Otherwise, the template only serves the purpose of "showing off" how many articles one has reviewed. Any objections? --Eustress (talk) 00:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I came here just now to make a very similar suggestion. Anyway, I have noticed that a lot of users have a subpage dedicated to keeping track of their GA reviews, and I was thinking we could have an optional parameter (something like |subpage= or whatever we feel like naming it) that users could specify to have it link to their GA reviews page. I was gonna suggest placing the link at "reviewed". The code would look something like this:

[[:Category:Wikipedia Good Article reviewers|This user]] has {{#if:{{{subpage|}}}|[[{{{subpage}}}|reviewed]]|reviewed}}

Any thoughts? rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 05:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Let's move forward on this. Since this template is used on several user pages, perhaps we could copy the template's code to a user space (perhaps User:Rjanag/User_Good_Articles_reviewed), so we can experiment with the code there before rolling out a modification system-wide. --Eustress (talk) 13:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that sounds perfect. I'll set up that page as a dev template to test stuff before making any modifications to the real one. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 13:35, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, just tried it out and it looks ok. I was thinking, though, should the extra parameter require people to type out the entire subpage name (ie, User:Rjanag/GA reviews) or just the last bit (GA reviews). Making it work the second way would be a pretty simple change to the code ([[User:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/{{{subpage}}}]]) and would save people some typing....but keeping it the first way might be better in that it's more flexible (and that way, people who don't have a subpage but just use a subsection of their user page can still use the box). rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 13:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If we can't develop some kind of switch to add on to the original template so that users who opt not to report their reviews won't display a red link on their userbox, then I'd opt for the subpage, but do you think a switch is possible? Don't worry about it if it causes too much mental exertion :) --Eustress (talk) 14:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the #if: statement should already handle that. (In the sandbox example linked above, the first box on the left is one with no subpage specified.)

On the side...do you (or anyone else around) have AWB/Twinkle/whatever to help out with, maybe, notifying all the people who have this transcluded? rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 14:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think AWB would make it easier, but I don't use any wiki browsers. Thanks for your work on this. You might consider doing similar modifications to the userboxes for DYK, FA, etc. Best regards --Eustress (talk) 16:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(outdent) Actually, as it turns out, not many people have this userbox (there are only like 70 transclusions), so I can probably do this notifying by hand. If I mess around with the DYK userbox it'll probably be a lot more, and then I'll ask someone with AWB to give me a hand (I don't really feel like installing it). rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:34, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The added functionality could already technically be achieved by simply linking the first parameter, like {{User Good Articles reviewed|[[User:Example|10]]}}, which is actually what I've been doing on my user page for months now :) Gary King (talk) 20:20, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]