This is a documentation subpage for Template:UserStatusShort. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should not be substituted nor used to tag soft redirects.

• This template can be used to display a status indicator inline with text, and is a shortened version of Template:UserStatus. Much of this documentation parallels that template.
• Enterprisey's StatusChanger.js script is compatible with this template.

Default examples if used on a Jimbo Wales user or user talk page:

• {{UserStatus}} - will read from page - User:Jimbo_Wales/Status

Using page parameter:

• {{UserStatus|User:Jimbo Wales/Status}} - will read from page - User:Jimbo Wales/Status
• {{UserStatus|User:Jimbo Wales/My Status}} - will read from page - User:Jimbo Wales/My Status

Create your status page with your user name as follows:

Step one

Create the user subpage [[User:(your user name here)/Status]]

Step two

The content of that page will be one of the triggers shown below, for example:

away

Step three

Save the page. That will make your status "away" on the page(s) where you've installed this template. You place only the word "away" on your /Status page to indicate that you are away. To show that you are back, just edit your /Status page and erase "away", then type "in" or "online" or "editing" in place of "away", then save the page. Your status will change wherever you've installed this template to whatever result in the table below that matches its "trigger" that you've used on your /Status page.

Trigger	Result
	Somewhere
in	Somewhere
editing	Somewhere
online	Somewhere
offline	Somewhere
busy	Somewhere
sleeping	Somewhere
wikibreak	Somewhere
away	Somewhere
vandal	Somewhere
holiday	Somewhere
school	Somewhere
working	Somewhere
eating	Somewhere
huggle	Somewhere
twinkle	Somewhere

Step four

Place a wikilink to your /Status page in any convenient place in your user space. You can use that link to quickly change your status anytime. The link will look something like this:

[[User:(your user name here)/Status]]

If you use a pipe after "/Status", then you can make the link appear any way you wish:

[[User:(your user name here)/Status|Change my status]]

That will look like:

Change my status

and will link to your /Status page.

Note

"Somewhere" is the default for this template, which means that if you place this template on your user page or talk page and you haven't created your /Status page, or if you've created your /Status page and left it blank, then your status will appear as "Somewhere" on the page where you've installed this template.

Page refresher link (optional)

A link to purge/refresh the page appears below the user status if the "purge" parameter is set equal to "yes":

{{UserStatus|purge=yes}}

If you've changed your status and it still appears as something else, set the purge parameter to yes and click that refreshing link. This will also help those who come to your page, as they can click the refreshing link to make sure they see your updated status.

Enjoy!

• {{UserStatus}}, of which this template is a derivative
• {{Statustop}}, which uses the Qui status system
• {{StatusTemplate}}, based on Hersfold's Status Template, which is no longer updated. Most statuses used in StatusTemplate are compatible with {{UserStatus}}
• User:Paine Ellsworth/UserStatus, another user status option
• {{Status3}}, another option to use