Forum:User badges - new feature

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Hello! Your friendly local product manager here :)

I'd like to take a moment to tell you about a new feature we're enabling on your wiki, which we'd love to get your feedback on - "user badges".

With user badges you can tell everyone about the cool things you are doing on this wiki by:

• Adding it to your MySpace or Facebook profiles...or anywhere else you have a profile on the web
• Adding it to your forum signatures
• Adding it to your blog, homepage or other personalized site

To create your customized badge, head to your Special:Preferences page and click on the "User badge" tab. There you can change the look and feel of the badge to suit your personality. A couple of my own badges are shown below:

We would love to hear about what you want to showcase on the badge in the future and value your feedback. Let us know what you think below.

Visit Help:User badge for more detailed info on this feature!

Thanks, Kirkburn (talk) 00:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Feedback

It looks absolutely awesome. I'd love to make one myself, but I have an embarassing low amount of edits on the english version of the Vault. I'd love to be able to implement this on The VaultNO some day, though Is there a link I can visit to learn how?

-=KAG=-^{Discussion - the VaultNO} 23:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

KAG, once we finalize the tool, we can roll it out internationally :) -- Doug (talk) 00:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Awesome addition to The Vault. Just an idea here, but would it be possible to make a User Badge to track global edits (across all Wikias)? Not to mention I'm also wondering what the update/refresh time is on the image for the number of edits. ---The Incendiary -- 17:12, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Might just be me, but having the logo clip over the header looks a bit strange in my opinion when the logo has a transparent background. See example below.

<badge user="Porter21"/>

Is the logo used in the badge somehow configurable by admins? -- Porter21 ^(talk) 00:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

No, but that's a very interesting idea. The "clipping" issue is also pretty fair, we'll look at that too. Kirkburn (talk) 21:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

To add a bit to Porter's complaint, it also looks like the logo has been vertically compressed. It certainly isn't terrible looking, but it does look a tad awkward.--PwnzerfaustMonk 11:28, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

My blasted badge won't update my number of edits: I've overwritten my old one so the one shown under my preferences has the right number, but the one on my User page stubbornly refuses to update its' 200-something edit discrepancy. A little help anyone? Techercizer ^{(say hi)} _(pwnage) 23:06, 21 March 2009 (UTC)