Userboxes are templates you can put on your page to describe a trait of yours in a box. Below is a list of them, sorted by category.
Userboxes
About Yourself
Gender
Userbox
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Template Code
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Userboxes is male.
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{{Male}}
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{{Female}}
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Timezone
Userbox
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Template Code
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UTC
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Userboxes lives in the time zone UTC. (also called GMT)
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{{UTC}}
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-3½ (NST)
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This user is 3 hours and 30 minutes behind UTC and goes by Canada Newfoundland time.
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{{NST}}
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-4 (AST)
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Userboxes is 4 hours behind UTC and goes by Canada Atlantic time.
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{{AST}}
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-5 (EST)
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Userboxes is 5 hours behind UTC and goes by USA Eastern time.
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{{EST}}
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-6 (CST)
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Userboxes is 6 hours behind UTC and goes by USA Central time.
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{{CST}}
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-7 (MST)
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This user is 7 hours behind UTC and goes by USA Mountain time.
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{{MST}}
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-8 (PST)
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This user is 8 hours behind UTC and goes by USA Pacific time.
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{{PST}}
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+5½ (IST)
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This user is 5 1/2 hours after UTC and goes by Indian time.
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{{IST}}
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How to use
As you see here, in order to put userboxes on your user page, you have to add the {{MyUserboxes}} template. For example:
{{MyUserboxes
|{{Male}}
|{{Female}}
|{{UCT}}
}}
will give you
Userboxes
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Userboxes is male.
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UTC
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Userboxes lives in the time zone UTC. (also called GMT)
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Also, you can customize it just the way you like, but remember, do this on your userpage, not the MediaWiki page.