Infobox

An infobox is a table used to provide standardized information across pages.

Infoboxes are traditionally implemented using regular templates. The infobox templates used on this wiki can be found in Category:Infobox templates .

Note that there also are some MediaWiki extensions for creating infoboxes; they can be found in Category:Infobox extensions .

Note that infoboxes can also be generated automatically from structured data using the Wikibase and Scribunto extensions as described in Wikidata:Infobox Tutorial.

To add infoboxes to your own MediaWiki instance, this article is recommended. Keep in mind a few things before following the tutorial:

1. The Scribunto extension is already included in MediaWiki v1.39.3, so instead of following the article's step 1, add the following lines of code to LocalSettings.php.

   wfLoadExtension( 'Scribunto' );
   $wgScribuntoDefaultEngine = 'luastandalone';
   

2. You might also need to change the lua file permissions. For such, go to /path/to/extensions/Scribunto/includes/Engines/LuaStandalone/binaries/yourOS/lua and make sure the file has permissions set to 755.
3. If the XML file that was exported from Wikipedia throws an error and you run MediaWiki 1.43 or older, download and install the extension TemplateStyles . Make sure to add it to LocalSettings.php as well:

   wfLoadExtension( 'TemplateStyles' );
   

4. That's it. Follow the rest of the steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 from the tutorial and everything will be working.

• Manual:Importing Wikipedia infoboxes tutorial

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