Extension:PortableInfobox

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PortableInfobox Release status: stable
Implementation	Tag
Description	Port of Fandom's PortableInfobox extension to the MediaWiki 1.37.0+
Author(s)	Universal Omega, Luqgreg, Fandom (original version)
Latest version	0.6 (2022-01-08)
Compatibility policy	Master maintains backward compatibility.
MediaWiki	1.37.0+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history README
Parameters $wgAllInfoboxesSubpagesBlacklist $wgPortableInfoboxCustomImageWidth $wgPortableInfoboxUseHeadings $wgPortableInfoboxUseTidy
Tags ‎<infobox>
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit BeforeParserrenderImageGallery wgQueryPages AllInfoboxesQueryRecached ArticlePurge PageContentSave ResourceLoaderRegisterModules
Hooks provided AllInfoboxesQueryRecached
Public wikis using	5,873 (Ranked 96th)
Issues	Open issues · Report a bug

The PortableInfobox extension allows to create portable infoboxes, which can be rendered using clean semantic HTML markup on any skin or platform using easy to understand powerful XML-like markup. It is a port of Fandom's PortableInfobox extension to the newer MediaWiki versions.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called PortableInfobox in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'PortableInfobox' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration parameters

$wgAllInfoboxesSubpagesBlacklist (array)

List of subpages in template namespace to omit by API allinfoboxes query. (default: [ "doc", "draft", "test" ])

$wgPortableInfoboxCustomImageWidth (int)

Size of image thumbnails used in infoboxes. (default: 300)

$wgPortableInfoboxUseHeadings (bool)

Use heading tags for infobox titles and group headers, it may cause incompatibilites with other extensions. (default: true)

$wgPortableInfoboxUseTidy (bool)

Use RemexHtml for validating HTML in infoboxes. (default: true)

Usage

See Help:Infoboxes/Tags on Fandom.

‎<media /> tag

In the 0.3 version, the ‎<media /> tag was introduced in favor of ‎<image />, which still works (see Aliases). It allows users to embed images, videos, and audio files in the infobox, in the same way as ‎<image /> tag does in the original version.

Attributes

• source - name of the parameter
• audio - If set to false, it ignores all audio files
• image - If set to false, it ignores all images
• video - If set to false, it ignores all videos

Child tags

• ‎<default>
• ‎<caption>

Aliases

• ‎<audio /> - variation of ‎<media /> tag that allows only audio files
• ‎<image /> - variation of ‎<media /> tag that allows only images and videos (for backward compatibility, can be disabled with video="false")
• ‎<video /> - variation of ‎<media /> tag that allows only videos

User-facing differences from the original version

• It's based on Wikia/app@b9fcbe5d6db928e318d64ad0568ec2d09a3f406e. There may be some features introduced in the original version at a later date which are absent here.
• Europa theme was removed.
• .pi-theme-default class is applied instead of .pi-theme-wikia to the infobox, when no theme is specified.
• When a ‎<gallery> tag is passed to the infobox with images without captions, file name is used instead of not showing the image.
• When embedding a video in the infobox additional class .pi-video is added to the ‎<figure> tag.
• Videos use ‎<video> tags instead of showing video in a modal after clicking a thumbnail.
• .pi-image class is no longer present in the ‎<figure> tag with a video, instead .pi-media class is applied to all media elements.
• .pi-image-collection classes were changed to .pi-media-collection.
• accent-color-* attributes allow more color formats.
• More HTML tags are allowed in captions.
• Mobile skin doesn't get separate styling.