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English
Etymology
Compound of user + box.
Pronunciation
Noun
userbox (plural userboxes or (jocular) userboxen)
- (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 (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.
- (Internet) A graphic modelled after this, shared on various social media websites.
2016 September 21, userboxes, 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, 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