CZ:Userinfo System

User infoboxes are (proposed) boxes containing information about users, their plans, accomplishments, and so forth. Once fully developed, they'll allow you to see at a glance both your own "work roadmap" for CZ--where you've been, where you're going--and overall views of work by everyone on CZ, or in a particular workgroup, or on a particular initiative. All you have to do is fill in some blanks, and the data is distributed to different points around the wiki.

It's a way for us to get organized!

Example

See User:Larry Sanger/Userplan for an example of a user infobox.

The data for that page is stored in two places:

Template:User/Larry Sanger for general info.
Template:User/Larry Sanger/Philosophy for some info specific workgroup.

The data is structure by two templates: Template:Userplan-all and Template:Userplan-all-workgroup.

How the system is planned to work

Ideally, all active Citizens would start their own data pages, like Template:User/Larry Sanger. They then fill in a lot of information: their short- and long-term CZ plans, their recent and most important CZ achievements, top articles they're working on, and their roles in the system, as well as some notes. (We can add new data types later.) In addition, Citizens fill in similar sorts of information with regard to the workgroups in which they are most active, like Template:User/Larry Sanger/Philosophy. For instance, you might list out your goals for your work in the Biology Workgroup in the next week.

Once this data is filled in, we collect it and display it in various ways. First, of course, you can display all of your own data in one place, like User:Larry Sanger/Userplan does. But just as importantly, we can produce other kinds of tables, which we place on various workgroup pages (like CZ:Chemistry Workgroup), or initiative pages (like CZ:Recruitment).