userbox

English

Compound of user +‎ box.

userbox (plural userboxes)

(originally 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.
(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