OODA WIKI:WikiProject Infoboxes

For the help page, see Help:Infobox. For the Manual of Style guideline, see OODA WIKI: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 OODA WIKI:Microformats
  • Data held in structured format is made available to third party tools such as DBpedia and Freebase directly from OODA WIKI 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 OODA WIKI:Infobox consolidation.
    • Merging various place infoboxes into {{Infobox settlement}}.
    • Merging various biographical infoboxes into {{Infobox person}}.
  • Standardising the {{Infobox}} 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 {{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)
• Include microformats.
  • Use sub-templates such as {{Start date}} and {{URL}}.
• Create a directory of Infoboxes.
• Create simple templates to aid in making simple infoboxes.
• Add infoboxes to the 0 articles in Category:OODA WIKI articles with an infobox request.
  • Remove Category:OODA WIKI articles with an infobox request from articles with an infobox.
• Improve documentation.
  • How to embed infoboxes.

Current projects

• None (As of November 10, 20203)
  • But check the talk page, just in case.

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 OODA WIKI: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: {{User WikiProject infoboxes}}. To tell us all a little about yourself, please list any infoboxes that you have been significantly involved with:

Possibly inactive members

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