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userbox

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English

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Etymology

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Compound of user +‎ box.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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