User:LOLHWAT/Awesome topicon/doc

This is a Topicon that should be added at the top of your user page ONLY. Do NOT add it to regular articles.

How do I use this?

Copy and paste {{User:LOLHWAT/Awesome Topicon}} on to your user page and let the good times roll!

What will it look like?

on the top right of your userpage; exactly 25x25 pixels.

Code originally used to create it

{{topicon|imagename=718smiley.png
| description=This user is awesome!
| icon_nr      = {{{icon_nr|{{{number|0}}}}}}
| extra_offset = {{{extra_offset|{{{offset|0}}}}}}
| width        = {{{width|24}}}
| style        = {{{style|}}}
}}

Purpose

The Awesome Topicon is a hack. It originates from {{topicon}}. The only supported top icons are the four used in article space; the protection lock , the spoken article speaker icon , the good article symbol and the featured article star . Editors have been increasingly using the same trick to add custom icons to their userpages. However, due to how the icons are implemented, they have a tendency to break rather easily, for instance when sitenotices are active. Because it is impossible to correct this for each and every userpage every time the top icons are broken (not to mention a waste of valuable editor time), a new template ({{top icon}}) and class (topicon) were introduced to make it simpler to support the icons. Note that officially, the top icons on userpages are allowed to break at any time. Other technical changes that are important to the entire mediawiki software or changes to article space will always be more important than keeping the userspace top icons working. This template is therefore meant to simplify support, not to guarantee it.