Forum:User badges - new feature

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:

http://images.wikia.com/diablo/images/badges/d/d0/126761.png http://images.wikia.com/residentevil/images/badges/d/d0/126761.png http://images.wikia.com/Callofduty/images/badges/d/d0/126761.png

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.
 * 
 * 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)

Same here. Even If I delete, save the apge, the add it back, it shows the same # as when I first added it. DragonJTS 11:59, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Stupid badges. Won't update. Grrr. Fat Man Spoon 13:07, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Now how will the internets know of our accomplishments? --DragonJTSLeave me a message 15:28, 2 June 2009 (UTC)