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GLAM/Resources/Collaborating on Wikipedia/Organizing work/English/Project template

< GLAM‎ | Resources‎ | Collaborating on Wikipedia‎ | Organizing work‎ | English

Intro text here...

This page is currently a draft.
Material may not yet be complete, information may presently be omitted, and certain parts of the content may be subject to radical, rapid alteration. More information pertaining to this may be available on the talk page.


Before you start edit

  • Select an image to use on your template.
    • The image can be a photo of your GLAM building, your logo, or a representative work in your collection.
    • The image should have a horizontal (landscape) orientation.
    • The image should be recognizable at a small size (80px and smaller).
    • Upload the image to Commons if it is not already there. How To
  • Decide on the name of your project and the name of the categories you will use.

Required steps edit

Create template edit

  Make a new template page

  • Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WPBannerMeta and follow the prompts! Or...
  • SEARCH for Template:WikiProject GLAMNAME.
  • On the Search Results page, click the red link to create Template:WikiProject GLAMNAME
  • Paste this text into the text edit box
{{WPBM
 |PROJECT            = GLAMNAME
  |PROJECT_NAME      = GLAMNAME project
  |PROJECT_LINK      = Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMNAME
 |substcheck=<includeonly>{{subst:</includeonly><includeonly>substcheck}}</includeonly>
 |small={{{small|}}}
 |category={{{category|}}}
 |listas={{{listas|}}}
 |IMAGE_LEFT          = FILENAME.jpg
 |IMAGE_LEFT_SMALL   = 50px
 |IMAGE_LEFT_LARGE   = 80px
 |QUALITY_SCALE=
 |class={{{class|}}}
 |importance={{{importance|}}}
|ASSESSMENT_CAT      = GLAMNAME-related articles
|ASSESSMENT_LINK     = 
|MAIN_TEXT           = This {{pagetype|{{{class|}}}}} is [[WP:GLAM/GLAMNAME|related to the GLAMNAME]]. Please copy quality  assessments of the article from the most major WikiProject template to this one as needed, and assign importance in accordance with the project's guidelines.
|MAIN_CAT            = 

|MAIN_ARTICLE     = [[GLAMNAME]]
}}<noinclude>
{{documentation}}
[[Category:GLAMNAME-related templates]]
</noinclude>
  • Replace "GLAMNAME" with the name of your institution. Be sure the project link name matches your existing project (spelled out or acronym).
  • PREVIEW your template. You will see a giant list of red-linked category names. This is correct!
  • SAVE your new template.

Create template shortcut edit

  Make a new template page

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  • [EXPAND] Paste the following text

[REDIRECT TEXT HERE]]

Create categories edit

  Set up quality categories

  • Go to your new WikiProject template and one-by-one, click the CREATE links to setup your project's assessment categories.
  • [EXPAND] Enter project name and cat name
  • [EXPAND] delete cat TOC
  • [EXPAND] SAVE
  • [EXPAND] Edit to change Wikiproject Link
    • [EXPAND] Change WikiProject GLAMNAME to GLAM/WP/GLAMNAME (OR)
    • [EXPAND] Paste optional info header - see below

  Set up Parent category

    • [EXPAND] Subcat of Wikipedia/GLAMNAME ARTICLES

  Set up importance categories

  • [EXPAND] Enter project name and cat name
  • [EXPAND] delete cat TOC
  • [EXPAND] SAVE
  • [EXPAND] Edit to change Wikiproject Link
    • [EXPAND] Change WikiProject GLAMNAME to GLAM/WP/GLAMNAME (OR)
    • [EXPAND] Paste optional info header - see below

  Set up Parent category

  Set up article category

  Set up partnership category

Optional steps edit

Document the project template (recommended) edit

Create additional classes (optional) edit

  • (project)
  • (template)

Create a custom category info header (optional) edit

  Create an informational category header

  • Copy this text and update it to suit your project.
{{fmbox
| style = background:transparent; border:transparent;
|image = [[Image:User-info.svg|40px]]
| text  = ''This category contains articles related to the [[GLAMNAME]].  Articles are 
automatically added to this category by placing the {{tl|WikiProject GLAMNAME}} project 
banner template, or its short cut {{tl|WPGLAMABBR}} on the article's Talk page.
For more information, see '''[[Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMABBR]]'''.''
}}
  • Open each of your project categories in turn.
  • Click Edit to update the page.
  • Replace the text {{catmore|....}} with your new text.
  • Preview and Save your changes.
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