User talk:Quaxanta

I noticed your request on translation requests and figured this might help you out a bit also: Category:Translation requests. If you run into any questions, please feel free to contact me on my talk page! ~Kylu ( u | t )  01:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Language userboxes and categories
There's two main methods of adding yourself to a language skills category: I'll explain both:
 * 1) Add the right babel userbox or userboxes to your userpage, or,
 * 2) Add yourself to the category manually.

Userboxes and the Babel system
Language userboxes can be found at WP:Babel primarily. A shortcut to userboxes in general is just to use WP:UBX. While I try to pick userboxes that are somewhat meaningful, I don't always succeed, and I think quite honestly that I've got far too many of them.

I'll cheat and copy directly from the page WP:Babel for this: (See that page for more options please)
 * Start off with  

Adding yourself to a category manually
There isn't an easy way to determine which categories you can add yourself into, but I think the generally used method is to start by first selecting what userboxes you would use, if you used userboxes, then going directly to that userbox.

Let's say you can communicate with a professional level of English.

Normally, you'd add user en-5 to your userpage, but you've decided to eschew userboxes. They're tacky and multicolor and play havoc with your page layout. No problem.

In the search box on the side, type "Template:user en-5" (without the quotes, of course) and hit Go. You find yourself at the main copy of the userbox template for "user en-5". See down at the bottom where it shows the categories? "user en" and "user en-5"?

That's your key. To add those categories to you, you'd add [[:Category:user en]] and [[:Category:user en-5]] to the bottom of your userpage. Don't forget the "user" part! :D If you'd like to learn a bit more about categories, I'd probably suggest visiting Help:Category, it's a lot more informative than I am!

Anyway, hope that's a good basic primer for you. Make sure you visit that WP:UBX and WP:Babel for me, okay? Very informative, helps you learn both templates and categories quickly. If you have any other questions, or run into something you don't understand, either leave me a note or ask on the talkpage of the page in question. No matter how much I act like a knowitall, I really don't! :D

Take care! ~Kylu ( u | t )  06:44, 4 June 2006 (UTC)