Help:Infobox development 2009 to 2011

This page (and its links) hopes to build on a project begun by a user on this wiki to create new community editable infoboxes for use across this wiki to replace the infoboxes currently in use.

We would like to build an information source and 'how to' for editing and creating infoboxes as well as creating the specific infoboxes themselves. This way we can learn through the creation and development process so the community does not need to rely on one specific user for the development or alternation of a specific infobox or feature.

Current Infobox Projects

• Template:Infobox Comic project 1 is a duplication of the Template:Infobox Comic that has all the history duplicated in order to be fully editable and explorable outside of the regular circulation of the Infobox Comic currently in use.

• Template:Infobox Spinoff test is testing infobox, currently it has applied to it 'optional fields' or the auto-collapse feature which will remove those fields that have no information added to them.

Implementation

Implementation of the collapsing field structure to various infoboxes has begun, so far it has been added to:

In universe use

• Template:Infobox Individual, which has the collapsing field structure added to "alias", "race", "home planet", "home era", "appearances" and "actor". (all fields except name and image)
• Template:Infobox Astronomical Object, which has the collapsing field structure added to all fields except 'name' and 'image'.
• Template:Infobox Species, which has the collapsing field structure added to "aka", "origin", "affiliation", "mentions", "individuals" and "appearances".
• Template:Infobox Conflict, which has collapsing field structures added to: "part of", "date", "location", "result", "combatants", "commanders" and "strength" (all fields except Conflict name and image).
• Template:Infobox Organization, which has had collapsing fields applied to: "name", "leader", "aka", "affiliation", "bases", "appearances", "members", "garrison" (all fields except name and image).

Out-of-universe use

• Template:Infobox Short Story Anthology which has the collapsing field structure applied to: "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Other CDs which has the collapsing field structure applied to: "number", "featuring", "enemy", "isbn", "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Other Novels which has the collapsing field structure applied to: "number", "featuring", "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Graphic Novel which has the collapsing field structure applied to: "number", "previous collection", "next collection".
• Template:Infobox Reference Book which has the collapsing field structure applied to: "previous release", "next release".
• Template:Infobox Spinoffs which has the collapsing field structure applied to: "main character", "featuring", "enemy", "setting", "previous release", "next release".
• Template:Infobox Annual which has the collapsing fields on "isbn", "previous annual", "next annual".
• Template:Infobox Comic which has the collapsing fields applied to: "doctor", "companions", "enemy", "year", "writer", "editor", "artist", "colourist", "lettering", "publisher", "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Torchwood Comic has the collapsing fields applied to: "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Other Comics has the collapsing fields applied to: "main character", "featuring", "enemy", "year", "writer", "editor", "artist", "colourist", "lettering", "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Short Story has collapsing fields applied to: "series", "companions", "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Other Short Story has collapsing fields applied to: "series", "featuring", "previous story", "next story".
• Template:Infobox Novel has collapsing fields applied to: "series", "number", "companions", "isbn", "previous story", "next story".

Basics of Infobox Design

The Infobox template is designed based on the wiki-style table coding. The coding within the table is very versatile and can allow for fairly simple or rather complicated designs. No mater how complicated the infobox template, the usage of the template on a target page allows for easy editing of the important information while the complicated coding is hidden from the regular editor.

An example showing both basic design and more advanced design can be viewed at Template:Infobox_TV_test.

Recommended Design Guidelines

To be added

Information

• How collapsing fields work