Olpcboxes

Olpcboxes This user's time zone is UTC.

OLPC Boxes (often shortened to OBX) are sets of templates that put attractive consistent "badging" on wiki pages. For example Activities use them; some user pages use them.

For a full guide you can see Wikipedia:Userboxes

(with caveats given the idea has been adapted for the OLPC)

• {{olpcboxtop}} — used to 'start' a box.
  • ... some boxes ... — in the shape of {{OBX boxname|params}} or {{User boxname|params}}
  • {{olpcboxbreak}} — for creating 'sections' within the box
  • {{olpcboxmacro}} — short for specifying a series of {{OBX boxname|params}}
  • {{userboxmacro}} — short for specifying a series of {{User boxname|params}}
• {{olpcboxbottom}} — used to 'close' a box.

See also

OBX proposals

Usage

OLPCBoxes command	What it produces
{{user mail|email|address.com}}	@ email address.com
{{User support-gang}}	help@ This user is a Support gang volunteer.
{{User design-gang}}	This user is a Design Gang volunteer.
{{User time zone|UTC-5|world}}	This user's time zone is UTC-5.
{{user en}} Many of these language templates are capable of identifying user's language competence as well (for example; beginner, moderate, fluent, native speaker). This is done by adding a -1 to the language abbreviation in the command. The numbers are: 1 = basic, 2 = intermdiate, 3 = advanced, 4 = near-native, 5 = professional, N = native. af = Afrikaans ar = arabic bg = Bulgarian da = Danish de = German el = Greek en = English es = Spanish fr = French ht = Haitian Creole hu = Hungarian it = Italian ja = Japanese ko = Korean leet = Leet ne = Nepali nl = Dutch no = Norwegian pl = Polish pt = Portuguese ro = Romanian ru = Russian tl = Tagalog zh = Chinese	en This user is a native speaker of English.
{{User Boston}}	This user is a member of the OLPC Boston Users Group.
{{User student|graduate|Computer Science Engineering at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan University of Michigan] }}	This user is a graduate student– Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan
{{User teacher}}	This user is a teacher.
{{User teacher primary|''school name/link''}}	This user is a primary teacher at school name/link
{{User teacher university|''uni-link-or-name''}}	This user is a university teacher at uni-link-or-name
<div style="float:left;border:solid #99b3ff 1px;margin:1px;"> {| cellspacing="0" style="width:260px;background:#e0e8ff;" | style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#99b3ff;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;" | '''{{{1}}}''' | style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em;text-align:center;" | {{{3}}}<hr>These users speak '''[[{{{2}}} language|{{{2}}}]]'''. |}</div>	{{{1}}} {{{3}}} These users speak [[{{{2}}} language|{{{2}}}]].
{{User community repair}}	This user is a spare parts hound.
{{User edtech}}	This user is in educational technology.

{{olpcboxtop
 | align =           <!-- { left | right } -->
 | left =            <!-- Any left margin value. Defaults to 1. -->
 | backgroundcolor = <!-- Any web color (name or #XXXXXX hex format). Defaults to #FFFFFF. -->
 | bordercolor =     <!-- Any web color (name or #XXXXXX hex format). Defaults to #99B3FF. -->
 | extra-css =       <!-- Allows you to provide additional CSS style information. -->
 | textcolor =       <!-- Any web color (name or #XXXXXX hex format). Defaults to #000000. -->
 | toptext =         <!-- Overrides the standard [[Olpcboxes]] text and link. Can include wiki-markup. -->
 }}

[olpcboxes]

{{olpcboxbottom}}

All of the parameters are optional. You may also insert breaks by using {{olpcboxbreak}}. See that template for details.

Hiding olpcboxes

You can hide olpcboxes which utilize this (as well as a few other) forms of template-based userbox organization. Simply edit your userspace CSS override (for example, monobook.css for the Monobook skin) and add the following–

table.userboxes { display: none; }

table.olpcboxes { display: none; }