userbox

Compound of user +‎ box.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːzəˌbɒks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjuzɚˌbɑks/

• Audio (US):

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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