Wiki143:WikiProject 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

Proposed project content

Feel free to add these:

• Make improvements using Lua.
• Improve standardisation.
  • Creating standard sets of parameters to be used in related infoboxes.
  • Using the same name for the same parameter, across all infoboxes (e.g., website vs. homepage vs. url).
  • Merging similar, redundant, and duplicate infoboxes. See Wikipedia:Infobox consolidation.
    • Merging various place infoboxes into Template:Tl.
    • Merging various biographical infoboxes into Template:Tl.
  • Standardising the Template:Tl template.
• Make a list of commonly used features/designs.
• Make an on-going list of new tricks & tips—to be posted here and to be shared with everyone.
• Create ways to encourage regular collaboration on a particular infobox.
• Create ways to improve of all infoboxes.
  • Better accessibility.
    • Create list of target audiences (editors, readers and administrators? vision impairment? muscular difficulties?) needing certain types of accessibility, and then sub-lists of what they need that relates to infoboxes.
    • Use Template:Tl instead of line breaks for lists.
    • Create tracking categories and warnings for best practices. ie has image, but no alt text (warn and track missing alt text)
• Include microformats.
  • Use sub-templates such as Template:Tl and Template:Tl.
• Create a directory of Infoboxes.
• Create simple templates to aid in making simple infoboxes.
• Add infoboxes to the 232 articles in Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request.
  • Remove Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request from articles with an infobox.
• Improve documentation.
  • How to embed infoboxes.

Article alerts

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Current projects

• None (As of December 2, 2017)
  • But check the talk page, just in case.

Completed retired projects

• July 2007—Infobox City Poland
• Films Infobox
• 2014—Wikipedia:WikiSnap Challenge

Templates

Template:Tl (on articles)

Template:Tl

Template:Tl - base for other infoboxes

Template:Tl - for infoboxes not based on Template:Tl, but which could be

Cleanup

Template:Tl

Template:Tl

Subtemplates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes/Subtemplates

Participants

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

1. Ras Benjih Interested in making Infoboxes for songs lyrics.
2. 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
3. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett: Particularly interested in accessibility; standardisation issues; merging similar infoboxes; and adding microformats to infoboxes - see the microformats project
4. Magioladitis (talk)
5. Jay Starz
6. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk (Thumperward) - pretty much any infoboxes; creator of the Template:Tl fork used in Template:Tl (also mine)
7. User:Klortho
8. Bonnie13J: Working my way through the music infoboxes
9. Mjs1991 - any infoboxes
11. I guess I've been a de-facto member for quite a while.
12. - Book infoboxes and taxoboxes.
14. - trying to cleanup the meta details
15. Template:Tl, expansion of Template:Tl
16. Interested mainly in infoboxes for biographical pages.
17. - New member; Decent experience with infoboxes
18. - cleaning up data in infoboxes, mostly in company/financial related articles
19. enforce infoboxes (AKA infobox police)
20. - getting my head around infoboxes
21. - Usually I will take the liberty of adding and contributing to Infoboxes all the time. Just became active again.
22. - I'm mostly interested in biographical and film pages, but I help out wherever I can.
23. - will contribute to company, NRHP, NJ. also been converting/adding infoboxes.
24. - animals, music, people. Graphic design and layout of particular interest.
25. - adding infoboxes to pages that don't have any - the random article button is useful.
26. - Working primarily on music related info-boxes, whilst following the templates.
27. - Mainly interested in adding infoboxes to biographical articles.
28. — standardisation is good, at-a-glance information is good.
29. Zaaruk (talk) - I am interested in adding infoboxes.
30. SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  – I've created various ones, and worked on a lot of them (template-editor).
31. - Infobox cleanup and standardization, code cleaning, etc. (admin)
32. - Primary goal: Adding infobox person to people without it. Updating infobox. My user page User:SWP13 lists all pages which I have added infoboxes and updated infoboxes. Secondary goal: Company infobox.
34. — created Template:Tl; interested in improving Wikidata integration with infoboxes and other user summaries, especially for unambiguous fields (such as identifiers and certain class memberships)
35. — Currently focusing on removing outdated infobox requests from articles with an infobox
36. - Doing all infoboxes as the need arises.
37. - Mostly tagging
38. - I'm significantly involved with Template:Tl.
39. Paewiki - Adding infoboxes, particularly for biographical and geographic articles, when time allows.
40. - I will be improving the existing infoboxes for now.
41. – NirvanaToday^t@lk - I want to create infoboxes related to Sri Lanka and China articles.
42. Mr.Election - Election infoboxes
43. Gardo Versace - I've mostly been editing infoboxes for film and television of media in the Philippines. I've also done work on infoboxes of biographies of notable persons in the Philippines.
44. - Created Template:Tl. Not heavily used, but would love some pointers.
45. Template:SndFrequent editor of school articles, particularly focusing on infoboxes. I would like to make edits to as many existing American high school and college infoboxes as possible. My goal is to systematically change certain aspects of high school infoboxes.
46. I enjoy making and expanding infoboxes for biographic pages
48. Interested and enjoy making or editing infoboxes (any but mostly history related)
49. I am working mainly on Football (Soccer) infoboxes
50. Sebbog - I can't edit infoboxes due to them being template or fully protected so instead I just add infoboxes to articles without them.
52. RadioactiveBoulevardier
53. I like creating infoboxes for all types of buildings, and movies.
54. - Mainly interested in helping with requests for infoboxes in articles at the moment, before working on improving/maintaining infobox templates once I've got more experience.
55. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) - Mainly adding infoboxes to Template:Category link/core.
56. Have been adding a lot of infoboxes to various articles of late so thought I’d add my name to this WikiProject!
57. [[User:Domorito|Template:Rotate textTemplate:Rotate text]]^talk I've been working on adding infoboxes on articles related to New York State and music. I hope to maintain and edit infoboxes once I have some more experience under my belt.
58. - I've added infoboxes to many biographies.

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. — 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
24. - rugby league and rugby union infoboxes
25. – bands and albums infoboxes
26. — will help out where I can.
27. - made all sorts of simple navboxes (link).
29. - 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 Template:Tl. 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. Clarkcj12 (talk) 21:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
41. GorillaWarfare: Mainly adding album infoboxes. Maybe clear out the category.
42. Adavis444 Infoboxes for WikiProjects
43. Acofficial
44. STATic message me! 21:25, 25 November 2010 (UTC) Infoboxes for various music related articles.
45. Fabregas0414 (talk) 08:03 20 July 2011 (UTC) Mainly focus on football articles and will help to add infoboxes to those articles.
46. Rhain1999 (talk) - Highly knowledgeable on both Doctor Who and Eminem.
47. Samsujata -Standarizing Articles with relevant Infoboxes. Adding Infoboxes to Random Articles. Recent Ex; PEN American Center
48. 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
49. Kamek98 - I have been making military infoboxes for W:3K
50. Harsh Rathod - I improve infoboxes and bring them in accordance with their specific documentation. I remove parameters which will never be used and add useful ones which could be handy in future for that infobox template. I also write alt text to aid visually impaired readers to get an !dea of the image. See the alt text written by me on infobox source code of this article.
51. Higad Rail Fan—uses infoboxes for railway-related transport. Occasionally hand-codes infoboxes.
52. Ktkvtsh
53. Alaney2k (talk) - Contributed Template:Tlx, contributed to ice hockey templates.
54. interested in making infobox Sufi Saint.