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.
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
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
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 {{Plainlist}} 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)
This list was generated from
these rules. Questions and feedback
are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
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:
Ras Benjih Interested in making Infoboxes for songs lyrics.
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
Mr. Yondris Ferguson (
talk·contribs) - Usually I will take the liberty of adding and contributing to Infoboxes all the time. Just became active again.
Laurenthian (
talk·contribs) - I'm mostly interested in biographical and film pages, but I help out wherever I can.
FriarTuck1981 (
talk·contribs) - will contribute to company, NRHP, NJ. also been converting/adding infoboxes.
Montanabw (
talk·contribs) - animals, music, people. Graphic design and layout of particular interest.
Aryamanarora (
talk·contribs) - adding infoboxes to pages that don't have any - the random article button is useful.
Mistymountain546 (
talk·contribs) - Working primarily on music related info-boxes, whilst following the templates.
H.dryad (
talk·contribs) - Mainly interested in adding infoboxes to biographical articles.
Zaaruk(talk) - I am interested in adding infoboxes.
SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ – I've created various ones, and worked on a lot of them (template-editor).
Rehman (
talk·contribs) - Infobox cleanup and standardization, code cleaning, etc. (admin)
SWP13 (
talk·contribs) - 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.
Sasuke Sarutobi (
talk·contribs) — created {{Infobox U.S. Presidential Document}}; interested in improving Wikidata integration with infoboxes and other user summaries, especially for unambiguous fields (such as identifiers and certain class memberships)
Outoftheazul (
talk·contribs) — Currently focusing on removing outdated infobox requests from articles with an infobox
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.
TheGEICOgecko (
talk·contribs) – Frequent 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.
Bgrus22 (
talk·contribs) I enjoy making and expanding infoboxes for biographic pages
Cocobb8 (
talk·contribs) I like creating infoboxes for all types of buildings, and movies.
Adam Black GB (
talk·contribs) - 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.
User:Levalley Looking for help in adding info boxes to major pages in anthropology
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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.reply
Samsujata -Standarizing Articles with relevant Infoboxes. Adding Infoboxes to Random Articles. Recent Ex;
PEN American Center
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
Kamek98 - I have been making military infoboxes for
W:3K
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.
Higad Rail Fan—uses infoboxes for railway-related transport. Occasionally hand-codes infoboxes.