Wikipedia Infobox
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A Wikipedia Infobox is a webpage section of a Wikipedia article page that contains summary information in a tabular format.
- Context:
- It can aid with Website Navigation.
- See: Wikipedia Hatnote, Wikipedia Category.
References
2009
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox
- An infobox on Wikipedia is a consistently formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject to provide summary information consistently between articles or improve navigation to closely related articles in that subject. (An infobox is a generalization of a taxobox (from taxonomy) which summarizes information for an organism or group of organisms.)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(infoboxes)
- An infobox template is an infobox that uses the template software feature. They are a broad class of templates commonly used in articles to present certain summary or overview information about the subject. In theory, the fields in an infobox should be consistent across every article using it; in practice, however, this is rarely the case, for a number of reasons. When this occurs, the infobox templates should be designed to dynamically adapt themselves to the absence or presence of particular fields.
- Like static infoboxes, they are designed to present summary information about an article's subject, such that similar subjects have a uniform look and in a common format. However, the template technique allows updates of style and of common text from a central place, the template page.
- These boxes are designed to be placed into main articles related to the topic area, and are usually associated with on-going WikiProjects. They have parameters; to work properly, the parameter values have to be specified when the template is inserted in the page. This allows each infobox to show information relevant to the article subject, while requiring only a minimal amount of coding within each article.
2008
- (Wu & Weld, 2008) ⇒ Fei Wu, and Daniel S. Weld. (2008). “Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology.” In: Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2008). doi:10.1145/1367497.1367583