Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes

"WP:INFOBOX" redirects here. For the help page, see Help:Infobox. For the MoS guideline, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes.

This WikiProject provides a central location for infobox designers and maintainers to assist each other in their work. Many different people are working on infoboxes, and occasionally need the input of others in order to get something to work—or some designers may simply be unfamiliar with certain tricks and features. The only way that such discussion takes place now is generally via the talk pages of various templates or across different user talk pages. By establishing this project as a central location for such discussions, more people can be of assistance.

For statistics on Infobox usage, see /Statistics.

Main objective

If someone has problems/difficulties getting a certain template to work, these problems/difficulties can be posted on the talk page, with each problem as a separate thread.

Benefits of infoboxes

• A quick and convenient summary of the key facts about a subject, in a consistent format and layout
• Emission of machine readable metadata
  • Infoboxes about people, places, buildings, organisations, products, species and dated events (battles, sports fixtures, record releases, etc) and more emit microformats; see Wikipedia:microformats
  • Data held in structured format is made available to third party tools such as DBpedia and Freebase directly from Wikipedia database dumps
  • Article editors do not need to know anything about metadata standards or markup
  • Increasing integration with Wikidata

Disadvantages of infoboxes

• The PDF version of a Wikipedia page (generated with the "Download as PDF" link) does not include the Infobox, so the infobox should not contain anything that is essential to the article, or is not otherwise repeated in the article body. This applies also for the WP:LEADIMAGE and its caption.
  • Workaround: the "Printable version" link generates a copy of the article as it would appear if printed, including the infobox. This version can be printed to paper (or to a pdf file using free software).

Proposed project content

Feel free to add to this.

• Make improvements using Lua
• Standardisation.
  • Creating standard sets of parameters to be used in related infoboxes
  • Using the same name for the same parameter, across all infoboxes (e.f. website vs. homepage v. url)
  • Merging similar/ redundant/ duplicate infoboxes
    • Merging various place infoboxes into {{Infobox settlement}}
    • Merging various biographical infoboxes into {{Infobox person}}
  • Standardising on the {{Infobox}} template
• List of commonly used features/designs.
• New tricks—to be posted here and to be shared with everyone.
• Regular collaboration on a particular infobox.
• Creation and improvement of all infoboxes.
  • Better accessibility
    • use of {{Plainlist}}, instead of line-breaks, for lists.
    • See Accessibility of infoboxes
• Inclusion of microformats
  • Use of sub-templates such as {{Start date}} and {{URL}}
• Directory of Infoboxes.
• Simple templates to aid in making simple infoboxes.
• Add infoboxes to the 1,489 articles in Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request
  • Remove Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request from articles with an infobox.
• Improve documentaion
• How to embed infoboxes

Current projects

Wikipedia:WikiSnap Challenge

• See talk page.

Completed retired projects

• July 2007—Infobox City Poland
• Films Infobox

Templates

{{Missing-taxobox}} (on articles)

{{Infobox requested}}

{{Infobox}} - base for other infoboxes

{{Convert to use Infobox}} - for infoboxes not based on {{Infobox}}, but which could be

Cleanup

{{Cleanup-infobox}}

{{New infobox}}

Subtemplates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes/Subtemplates

Categories

Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request

Participants

If you wish to be involved in this project, please add yourself to the below list and/or add the userbox: {{User WikiProject infoboxes}}. To tell us all a little about yourself, please list any infoboxes that you have been significantly involved with:

1. NinaGreen Particularly interested in Infoboxes on historical figures and the type of images acceptable for use in them, i.e. whether related images can be used when no photo or painting of the subject is available
2. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett: Particularly interested in accessibility; standardisation issues; merging similar infoboxes; and adding microformats to infoboxes - see the microformats project
3. Magioladitis (talk)
4. Jay Starz
5. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk (Thumperward) - pretty much any infoboxes; creator of the {{infobox3cols}} fork used in {{infobox football biography 2}} (also mine)
6. User:Klortho
7. Bonnie13J: Working my way through the music infoboxes
8. Mjs1991 - any infoboxes
9. Iamthecheese44 (talk · contribs)
10. Vanisaac (talk · contribs) I guess I've been a de-facto member for quite a while.
11. Brambleberry of RiverClan (talk · contribs) - Book infoboxes and taxoboxes.
12. XapApp (talk · contribs)
13. Quiddity (talk · contribs) - trying to cleanup the meta details
14. Gerda Arendt (talk · contribs) {{infobox Bach composition}}, expansion of {{infobox musical composition}}
15. Correogsk (talk · contribs) Interested mainly in infoboxes for biographical pages.
16. Helixsoft (talk · contribs) - New member; Decent experience with infoboxes
17. Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs)
18. Syed (talk · contribs) - cleaning up data in infoboxes, mostly in company/financial related articles
19. Gamemaster eleven (talk · contribs) enforce infoboxes (AKA infobox police)
20. CmdrDan (talk · contribs) - getting my head around infoboxes
21. Mr. Yondris Ferguson (talk · contribs) - Usually I will take the liberty of adding and contributing to Infoboxes all the time. Just became active again.
22. Laurenthian (talk · contribs) - I'm mostly interested in biographical and film pages, but I help out wherever I can.

Possibly inactive members

If you're on this list but still involved, please move yourself to the section above.

1. 52 Pickup: Former Country, Former Subdivision, German Location
2. Kirill Lokshin: all of the military history infoboxes
3. MJCdetroit: Infobox Weather and various geographical infoboxes such as Infobox City and Infobox Country
4. Scharks: Template:Infobox Australian Place
5. TheJosh: Template:Infobox Australian Place, The Infobox Computer Hardware range, this and that.
6. SatyrTN (talk · contribs) — several of the WP:LGBT templates, bits of Infobox City
7. Ned Scott this and that, nothing major
8. Dvyjones^t·c·e
9. Yuanchosaan
10. CapitalR: Adding the 350 infoboxes to all Massachusetts cities/towns, plus lots of work on navigational boxes.
11. Menasim( discuss ) : created infoboxes in Arabic Wikipedia
12. Marasmusine: Intend to help with the directory of infoboxes.
13. PhishRCool 15:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
14. Visviva: Happy to help out with technical issues. Specialize in linguistic infoboxes, notably Template:Koreanname.
15. *Cremepuff222*: I know advanced parser functions if anyone needs help with that.
16. Slambo: I mostly work on boxes listed in Category:Rail transport infobox templates
17. Bermicourt: Like Slambo I work on boxes listed in Category:Rail transport infobox templates, but focus on those related to German railways, including translation features
18. Thief12 22:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC): I primarily work with infobox related to entertainment (actors/actresses, bands, films, singers, etc.) as well as anything related to Puerto Rico.
19. Shruti14 17:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
20. Howard the Duck 13:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC): Mostly sports infoboxes.
21. Meckstroth.jm 18:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC): Mostly things to do with cincinnati infoboxes.I have made ones for fountin square,tylerdavidson fountain, and the banks so far.
22. Quickmythril started working on infoboxes for films
23. Mythdon (talk · contribs)
24. Londo06 (talk · contribs) - rugby league and rugby union infoboxes
25. Cannibaloki (talk · contribs) – bands and albums infoboxes
26. Jakew (talk · contribs) — will help out where I can.
27. Steveprutz (talk · contribs) - made all sorts of simple navboxes (link).
28. Raven1977 (talk · contribs)
29. Iamthejustice (talk · contribs) - mostly bands and albums infoboxes
30. TheGunn - working mostly on WP-Cincinnati infoboxes
31. Probus (talk) - I'd like to do some history, politics and languages infoboxes
32. Dudemanfellabra (talk) - I worked on the major update to {{Infobox nrhp}}. I can help out anywhere though..
33. User:Levalley Looking for help in adding info boxes to major pages in anthropology
34. --Mr. Unknown (talk) 13:25, 16 May 2009 (UTC) Creating infoboxes for pages that I beleave should have one but there isn't one of them. And different turns for current infoboxes.
35. RandomGuy666 (talk)-Creates infoboxes for music artists/bands
36. BOVINEBOY2008 - Films, video games, albums, and musical artists/bands
37. Nestor Lim - Computers, politics, science, literature, mathematics, medicine infoboxes - wrote Template:Infobox LGU League
38. Panyd - All of television articles without infoboxes (hopefully)
39. User:Alltheold-Mainly literature but will help any info-boxless article I find.
40. Rehman: Infoboxed relating to energy and others.
41. Clarkcj12 (talk) 21:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
42. GorillaWarfare: Mainly adding album infoboxes. Maybe clear out the category.
43. Adavis444 Infoboxes for WikiProjects
44. Acofficial
45. STATic message me! 21:25, 25 November 2010 (UTC) Infoboxes for various music related articles.
46. Fabregas0414 (talk) 08:03 20 July 2011 (UTC) Mainly focus on football articles and will help to add infoboxes to those articles.
47. Rhain1999 (talk) - Highly knowledgeable on both Doctor Who and Eminem.
48. Samsujata -Standarizing Articles with relevant Infoboxes. Adding Infoboxes to Random Articles. Recent Ex; PEN American Center
49. Adamkriesberg -I've done some work adding infoboxes to articles about American Politicians. Also have been known to add infoboxes to articles at random. e.g. William Darius Jamieson
50. Kamek98 - I have been making military infoboxes for W:3K