userbox

English

Etymology

Compound of user +‎ box.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

userbox (plural userboxes or (jocular) userboxen)

1. (originally wiki jargon, Wikimedia jargon) A simple, standardised box placed on a webpage to indicate the user's proficiencies or preferences.
   • 2006, Lee K Seitz, “Any Wikipedians here?”, in rec.games.video.classic‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I wasn't satisfied with the retrogamer userbox, so I created a new one.

   • 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual:

     Creating a userbox template for posting on member editors' user pages.

   • 2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva (eds.), Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States, page 134:

     Currently, this userbox-mania is tending to decrease on Russian Wikipedia, being systematically repressed by administrators, but it is still thriving in the Ukrainian edition.

2. (Internet) A graphic modelled after this, shared on various social media websites.
   • 2016 September 21, userboxes‎^[2], retrieved 7 July 2014:

     thank you all!! All 10613 of you!!! Maybe more now!! Here’s to many more userboxes being made!!❤❤

   • 2022 January 30, r/plural‎^[3], retrieved 7 July 2014:

     Made some plural userboxes, feel free to use! (With or without credit) - Ben Levine

Translations

a box placed on a webpage

• Arabic: صناديق المستخدم m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 用戶盒仔／用户盒仔 (jung⁶ wu⁶ hap⁶ zai²) (Hong Kong)

  Mandarin: 用戶框／用户框 (yònghùkuàng), 使用者方塊／使用者方块 (shǐyòngzhě fāngkuài) (Taiwan)

• Esperanto: uzantoskatolo
• Finnish: käyttäjälaatikko
• Hebrew: תיבת משתמש (teivát mishtamésh)
• Japanese: ユーザーボックス (yūzābokkusu)
• Korean: 유저박스 (ko) (yujeobakseu)
• Russian: юзербокс (ru) m (juzerboks)