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
UserStatus isSomewhere
in
UserStatus isIN
editing
UserStatus isediting
online
UserStatus isonline
offline
UserStatus isoffline
busy
UserStatus isbusy
sleeping
UserStatus issleeping
wikibreak
UserStatus ison a wikibreak
away
UserStatus isaway
vandal
UserStatus isfighting vandalism
holiday
UserStatus ison holiday
school
UserStatus isat school
working
UserStatus isat work
eating
UserStatus iseating
huggle
UserStatus is huggling
twinkle
UserStatus istwinkling
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.