TechInfoDepot: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&mdash;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.

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 TechInfoDepot:microformats
 * Data is made available to third party tools such as DBpedia and Freebase
 * Forthcoming integration with Wikidata

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
 * List of commonly used features/designs.
 * New tricks&mdash;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 articles in Category:TechInfoDepot articles with an infobox request
 * Remove Category:TechInfoDepot articles with an infobox request from articles with an infobox.
 * Add Infobox writer to writer pages.

Current projects

 * See talk page.

Completed retired projects

 * July 2007&mdash;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
 * Convert to use Infobox - for infoboxes not based on Infobox, but which could be


 * Cleanup
 * Cleanup-infobox
 * New infobox


 * Subtemplates
 * See TechInfoDepot:WikiProject Infoboxes/Subtemplates

Categories
Category:TechInfoDepot 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:. 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)  I guess I've been a de-facto member for quite a while.
 * 10)  - Book infoboxes and taxoboxes.
 * 1)  - Book infoboxes and taxoboxes.

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)  &mdash; 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 TechInfoDepot
 * 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)  *Cremepuff 222* : 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) - rugby league and rugby union infoboxes
 * 24) – bands and albums infoboxes
 * 25) &mdash; will help out where I can.
 * 26) - made all sorts of simple navboxes (link).
 * 27) - trying to cleanup the meta details
 * 28) - mostly bands and albums infoboxes
 * 29) TheGunn - working mostly on WP-Cincinnati infoboxes
 * 30) Probus (talk) - I'd like to do some history, politics and languages infoboxes
 * 31) Dudemanfellabra (talk) - I worked on the major update to Infobox nrhp. I can help out anywhere though..
 * 32) User:Levalley Looking for help in adding info boxes to major pages in anthropology
 * 33) --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.
 * 34) RandomGuy666 (talk)-Creates infoboxes for music artists/bands
 * 35) BOVINEBOY 2008 - Films, video games, albums, and musical artists/bands
 * 36) Nestor Lim - Computers, politics, science, literature, mathematics, medicine infoboxes - wrote Template:Infobox LGU League
 * 37) Panyd - All of | television articles without infoboxes (hopefully)
 * 38) User:Alltheold-Mainly literature but will help any info-boxless article I find.
 * 39) Rehman: Infoboxed relating to energy and others.
 * 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 3K
 * 1) 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
 * 2) Kamek98 - I have been making military infoboxes for 3K