userbox

A simple, standardised box placed on a webpage to indicate the user's proficiencies or preferences.

Noun

  1. A simple, standardised box placed on a webpage to indicate the user's proficiencies or preferences.
    • I wasn't satisfied with the retrogamer userbox, so I created a new one. - 2006, Lee K Seitz, “Any Wikipedians here?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet):
    • Creating a userbox template for posting on member editors' user pages. - 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual:
    • 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. - 2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera...
  2. A graphic modelled after this, shared on various social media websites.
    • thank you all!! All 10613 of you!!! Maybe more now!! Here’s to many more userboxes being made!!❤❤ - 2016 September 21, userboxes, retrieved 07 Jul 2014:
    • Made some plural userboxes, feel free to use! (With or without credit) - Ben Levine - 2022 January 30, r/plural, retrieved 07 Jul 2014:

Origin

Compound of user + box.

Forms

userboxes userboxen