Welcome to the GLAM style!

This page explains the use of the GLAM style, a suite of templates and styles to make uniformly styled visual pages on Metawiki.

Creating a new page

Choose the name

If you are creating a new page for your project, choose the name of your main page. You should use this name in all the element versions you create for your own project. Create your page in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/<yourpage>.

Create the header

To use GLAM style for your new project, you will first need to create a version of the header. The header contains the upper part of the page, including a link to the stylesheet, the header image and texts, as well as the menu.

Copy the content of Template:GLAM/Main_navigation to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:<yourpage>/Main_navigation

This makes the style Template:GLAM/style.css available for your page with heading styles and styles for content components. It is the stylesheet that is shared across similarly styled pages.

🔥 At the moment, you need to create your own separate copy of Template:GLAM/Main_navigation, but work is ongoing to make a master template.

If you want to make changes or additions to the style

If you wish to extend the style for your own page, keep the basics but add your own flavor.

Create a new stylesheet in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:<yourpage>/style.css

Add a link to it in your header template at Template:<yourpage>/Main navigation. Add the code <templatestyles src="<yourpage>/style.css" /> after the existing templatestyles link. Do not replace existing code, but keep both stylesheets: GLAM/style.css and <yourpage>/style.css.

Using the header

➜ Read more about how to use the header

Basic box

The core of the style is the use of content boxes. The boxes share a common template, which is Template:GLAM/Box. You can create boxes that have an image and some content, and that can be laid out in a grid. There are many properties that the template can take. Hit edit, select the box, and hit edit on the template to see all the properties you can add.

This is an example of a basic box

There is a data section in the template to add some additional information or subtitle.

This is the part of the template that holds the textual content. The basic box can be light grey or blue. The button can be blue or negative with blue edges on grey / white edges on blue, or white. It can also be smaller in size.

The button can link to wiki pages or external urls

➜ Read more about content boxes

Layouts for boxes and lists

To create different grids and lists that are responsive and adjust to different devices, the content boxes must be used with container <div> tags. The containers divs use css classes that arrange the boxes in grids and lists of different sizes and behaviours.

➜ Read more about layouts

Examples of derivative boxes

Further templates are created using the basic box and adding specific features.

➜ Read more about derivative boxes

Wiki Loves Monuments

1 September 2024–31 October 2024

Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 will be the 15th edition of the photography competition, with 44 returning countries plus Cyprus and Libya as new countries joining the annual competition.

Wiki Loves Monuments

Guru Dutt

Indian film director, producer, choreographer and actor (1925–1964) 9 July 1925–10 October 1964

screenwriter • choreographer • film director • film producer • film editor • film actor

Guru Dutt

Works

Aar Paar

Baaz

Baazi

Guru Dutt Films (11 January 1955)

1 more works on Wikidata

Tools

View and edit on Wikidata

Explore on Wikidocumentaries

Wikimedia Commons category

Search

Upload image

dry stone walling

mortarless masonry method

Cyprus • Andorra • Croatia • Slovenia • France • Greece • Austria • Switzerland • Italy • Luxembourg • Belgium • Spain • Ireland

Dry stone

Inventories

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria

Ireland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage

National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ukraine

Census of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Asturias

Tools

View and edit on Wikidata

Dry stone

Search Wikimedia Commons

View on Wikidocumentaries

Create Living Heritage page

Upload image

Catalog of derivative boxes

The boxes do not have their own style, they use the style that us in use on the page. The layout assumes the use of a derivative of the GLAM style.


Main page	Box	Properties
Wiki Loves Living Heritage	Smallbox
GLAM	Highlight	Title Introduction Authors Start date & Start time End date & End time Timezone Image or Logo Link & Link label Wiki link & Link title Tags Type of presentation. Use this value for presentations at GLAM calls Tool or workflow demonstration Longer presentation Lightning talk - presentation Lightning talk - asking for feedback Pitch Group discussion Group decisionmaking Page in GLAM pages. Use this to link to a page in the GLAM pages on Metawiki

Further templates

Articlerow was initially created for a news section component, this template is used for event listings and other types of visual link lists.

This is an example of the articlerow template

28 June 2025 In addition to the description text, you can add a date, social media links, an image and multilingual tags by adding a list of Wikidata QIDs. ...

GLAM

culture

cultural heritage

You can also add an extended section that can be displayed on hover.

Page creation workflows

➜ Workflows

Using Wikidata and Listeria

tktk

Translating pages and components

tktk

Reporting problems

The dark mode has not been catered for yet.

There are known issues with the mobile view and the menu.

The submenus will be worked on soon.

Make Phabricator tickets and tag with [tag to be added].