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=== Logically, actions (app icons) ===
[[Image:Crystal Clear app clean.png|32px]] (do it, done, doable)<br />
[[Image:Crystal Clear app logout.png|32px]] (don't do it, not done, postponed, for later)


===Applications===
===Applications===

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Introduction About you Navigation aids Metadata Your scripts Style Menus & subpages Art, Decor, etc. Hall of Fame


Many users split their user page up into multiple pages and store the extra pages as subpages of their user page (like this: pagename/subpagename). Either their user page has grown too big to be a single page, or they like to keep their subjects more sectionalized. This creates a navigation problem, for typing the entire page name into the search box every time you want to go to a subpage is cumbersome, so one solution is to link the family of pages together with a common menu. The menu is stored in a subpage of its own, and is transcluded onto each page just like a template (that is, you just enclose the pagename inside of double curly brackets, {{like this}}. This affords the opportunity to add the talk page and special pages to the mix (like displaying the user's contributions and other display commands from Wikipedia's "special" menu). Some menus look just like navigation bars, others have icons, some are integrated into the page's border, and others are vertical lists (usually boxed).

Some examples are provided below.

To use one of these, press edit above, and copy the name of the menu you want to use (but without the curly brackets) and paste it into the search box to the left and press "Go". Then press edit again and select and copy the whole page (using ctrl-C). Then create a new page called User:USERNAME/Menu, and paste what you copied to there. Edit it to customize it to your purposes, and save. Then transcribe your menu page to your user and talk page (and/or to any of your other user subpages) by including it in curly brackets, like this: {{User:insert name here/Menu}}. Have fun.

User:Example User talk:Example Special:Contributions/Example Special:Emailuser/Example User:Example/Spanish User:Example/About_me User:Example/Contributions_/_History
Incident Management Problem Management Change Management Release Management Configuration Management

Every night, someone thinks about you before they go to sleep. > >At least 15 people in this world love you in some way. > >The only reason someone would ever hate you is because they want to be just > >like you. > >There are at least 2 people in this world that would die for you. > >You mean the world to someone. > >Someone that you don't even know exists loves you. > > > >When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it. > >When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look again. > > > >Always remember the compliments you received. > >Forget the rude remarks.So if you are a loving friend, send this to your > >friends, including the person that sent it to you

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User:Example Home User talk:Example Talk User:Example/Awards Awards User:Example/Sandbox Sandbox Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set Toolbox User:Example/Workshop Subpages :es:Usuario: Español
User:Example User talk:Example User:Example/Workshop User:Example/Current_favorit_subjects Wikipedia:Research User:Example/Contributions User:I,Robot
Home
(en · es) 		Talk
 To do
 Interests
 Research
 Contribs
 I,Robot
User talk:Example Special:Watchlist Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines User:Example/Workshop Wikimedia User:Example/Sandbox User:Example/Gallery User:Example/Awards Wikipedia:Cleanup User:Example/Virtual classroom Wikipedia:Tip of the day Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost

User:Example User talk:Example User:Example/About me Special:Contributions/Example User:Example/Workshop Wikipedia:Tip of the day Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost Wikipedia:Department directory Wikipedia:List of guidelines Wikipedia:Navigational templates Wikipedia:Shortcuts
User:Example User talk:Example User:Example/Workshop Special:Prefixindex/User:Example User:Example/monobook.js Special:Contributions/Example Special:Emailuser/Example
User Page
 Talk Page
 Workshop
 Site Map
 Monobook.js
 Contributions
 Email
User:Agent Ph0enix     User talk:Example     User:Agent Ph0enix     User:Agent Ph0enix/Awards     Wikipedia:Directory      
Main     Talk     Userboxes     Awards     Links    
User:Example     User talk:Example     User:Example/About me     User:Example/Awards     User:Example/Bookmarks     User:Example/Places I've been     User talk:Example/Archive     User:Example/Gallery     Special:Emailuser/Example  
Main     Talk     Userboxes     Awards     Bookmarks     Globetrotting     Archives     My Images     Email
User:Example User talk:Example User:Example/About me User:Example/Awards Special:Emailuser/Example Special:Prefixindex/User:Example/ Special:Contributions/Example User:Example/Gotcha! User:Example/Workshop
Home Talk About me Awards eMail Subpages Contributions All edits Guest Book Workshop

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Where it stops, nobody knows.
Menu #16 has added the overlaid menu you can see in the very top-right corner of this page. It can also add an image behind the "puzzle-globe" logo in the top-left corner, but this component is currently commented out in order to preserve the look of the Wikipedia namespace. Please see the menu's subpage to see it in action.
Home Page
Home Page
Talk Page
Talk Page
All My User Pages
All My User Pages
Standard List of Contributions
Standard List of Contributions
Userboxes
Userboxes
Teleportal
Teleportal
Signature shop
Signature shop
Guestbook
Guestbook

More menu icons


Crystal Clear Apps

Applications

Devices

File Systems

KDM

MIME-Types

There are 2 primary types of VERY good images, these (Crystal clear apps) and the Nuvola series, located Here. Looking for a superconglomerate? Try This guy's icon page.

Logo Logo Loads of Barnstars (Awards) CVU CVU

Subpages

A subpage is a page "under" another page. Your userpage may be the parent page for as many subpages as you need.

How to make a subpage

  1. Start with your userpage.
    For example, User:Example User
  2. Add a forward slash (/) and text at the end of the name.
    For example User:Example User/Subpage
  3. Either link to it on your userpage or transclude it
    1. To link to it, type [[User:Example User/Subpage]]
    2. To transclude it (like a template) type {{User:Example User/Subpage}}
      The reason you would want to transclude it is if you want to put a header on every page, all you would need to put is {{User:Example User/Header}}, and you wouldn't need to put the code on each time.

Types of subpages

Here are some typical names for subpages of user pages:

  • Talk page
    • aka
      • Forum
    • Archives
  • Work page
    • aka
      • Office
      • Sandbox
      • Workshop
  • Toolbox
    • aka
      • Tool shed
      • Tool cabinet
      • Utility room
      • Armory
  • Control room
    • aka
      • Command console
      • Command center
    • Controls
      • Edit counter
      • Edit buttons
      • Purge buttons
      • Task buttons
      • Nav aids
      • Info boxes (templates)
  • Contacts
    • aka
      • Hall of fame
      • Users
      • User list
      • Users I admire
    • Format
      • Simple links
      • Edit counters
      • Link arrays
  • Menu
    • Format
      • List
      • Icons
      • Icons with Click
    • Samples
      • ElAmericano

Note that subpages can have subpages under them as well, and so on. Like this: User:user name/subpage level one/subpage level two/etc.

Sandboxes

You can create subpages in userspace as private 'sandboxes'. You can use this space to experiment with Wiki syntax, or to work on articles without worrying about whether the article is ready to go public. Remember that:

  1. When moving articles to and from userspace it is easy to inadvertently break the terms of the GFDL by forgetting to leave a trail back to where the content came from. If you cut and paste content from an article into your userspace, remember to leave an edit summary such as "Content taken from Article", and do the same if you want to move content back into the main article.
  2. User subpages should not be included in any categories meant for articlespace. If you copy and paste an article containing categories, you can:
    1. Remove them
    2. Put <nowiki></nowiki> tags around them: <nowiki>[[Category:Australians]]</nowiki> produces [[Category:Australians]]
    3. Comment them out with <!-- -->: <!-- [[Category:Australians]]--> produces absolutely nothing
    4. Put [[:Category:Australians]] instead of [[Category:Australians]] (note the extra colon): this produces Category:Australians.
    Be especially aware of templates that include categories, such as {{POV}} or {{stub}}. Again, you can remove the template, nowiki it, comment it out, or subst it with {{subst:POV}} instead of {{POV}} to convert the template into its raw code, then remove the category manually as above (you will need to replace the template on moving it back into articlespace).
  3. User subpages can be stumbled across by users unfamiliar with Wikipedia via Google (though not by Wikipedia's built-in search unless the searcher chooses to search in userspace). To avoid people mistaking your work in progress as an actual article, add {{Userspace draft}} to the top of your userpage.


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