Help:Badges

Badges are a kind of marker attached to a sitelink, which could identify, for example, that the article is a "featured article" on a specific site. They do not describe the external entity but the page on the specific site.

Only confirmed users can add or remove badges, IPs and unconfirmed users are stopped by an abuse filter.

Some badges for some wikis are periodically set by bot.

See Wikimedia badge (Q17442550).

• 
  At Wikidata: assigning Badges
• 
  At Wikipedia: Shows sitelinks with

Individual client wikis can override the badge icons that are used to mark interwiki 'language' links in the sidebar by adding some site CSS.

In MediaWiki:Vector.css:

li.badge-featuredarticle,
li.badge-featuredlist,
li.badge-featuredportal {
  list-style-image: url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Icone_AdQ.png");
}

li.badge-goodarticle {
  list-style-image: url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Icone_BA.png");
}

In MediaWiki:Monobook.css:

.portlet li.badge-featuredarticle, .portlet li.badge-featuredlist {
  list-style-image: url('//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Icone_AdQ.png');
}

.portlet li.badge-goodarticle {
  list-style-image: url('//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Icone_BA.png');
}

Other skins:

There is also default CSS for the Modern and CologneBlue skins, which wikis can override (e.g. in Modern.css):

• https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikimediaBadges/blob/master/resources/skins/modern/wikimedia-badges.css
• https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikimediaBadges/blob/master/resources/skins/cologneblue/wikimedia-badges.css

• Wikidata administrators will not add badges for stubs.

• featured topic badge (badge being used for featured topics)
• featured article badge (badge being used for featured articles)
• good article badge (badge being used for good articles)
• featured list badge (badge being used for featured lists)
• Did you know article (badge being used for articles appeared in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page)
• recommended article (badge being used for recommended articles (also known as quality articles or usable articles))
• featured portal badge (badge being used for featured portals)
• A-Class articles (no description)
• B-Class articles (Wikimedia badge)
• C-Class articles (no description)
• top-importance article (Wikimedia badge)
• good list badge (Wikimedia badge)
• sitelink to redirect (do not apply this badge manually; if you manually apply a badge you likely want to apply "intentional sitelink to redirects" instead; this badge is used to indicate that a sitelink links to a Wikimedia redirect page)
• intentional sitelink to redirect (badge used to indicate that a sitelink knowingly links to a Wikimedia redirect page)
• Wikisource badge (digital badge used by a Wikisource project)
• bridge enabled (infobox with Wikidata Bridge functionality)
• Wikidata powered (badge for infoboxes and other templates using Wikidata)
• no badge (sitelink on Wikidata has no Wikimedia badge)
• master version (Wikidata badge for the original of a template or module)

For an up-to-date list, see P31=Q17442550.

For related help pages, see:

• Help:Sitelinks
• Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects

For additional information and guidance, see: