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See post for details and links for creating an infobox on MediaWiki

how to create an infobox? i've installed Scribunto and yet i'm still lost. Thanks

Copy and paste the wikipedia modules and pages. In this case Wikipedia:Module:Infobox, Wikipedia:Module:InfoboxImage, Wikipedia:Module:Navbar, Wikipedia:Template:Nowrap, Wikipedia:Template:Infobox, and any any other inbox templates you may want. Hope this helps.

I've copy paste modules and templates and yet still no infobox. Thanks btw for your response, i really appreciate it

Did you put th template on a page and specify parameters.

yup, already done it.

let say i want to use Infobox person and i entered these info

{.{ Infobox person

| name = jon | image = | alt = | caption = lalalala | birth_name = asdasdaqweqweqwe | birth_date = | birth_place = KL | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = MAS | other_names = tralalala | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works =

}.}

then, the whole page(same like Template:Infobox person/doc) come out instead an infobox.

Thanks.

Did you copy from Wikipedia:Template:Infobox Person?

Hello,

I am also trying to add infoboxes to mediawiki, I followed these instructions : Manual:Importing Wikipedia infoboxes tutorial. But when I try to import, I get this error : Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_check_encoding() in /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/Scribunto/engines/LuaCommon/UstringLibrary.php on line 36

Can somebody help me ?

I run MW 1.26.2

Thanks.

@Bencola Your php server needs mbstring

http://in1.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php

Pronull, this might help.

Pronull, could you give me a link to your wiki please?

Hi guys!! At last!! I managed to create the infobox. Thanks to all of you for the responses and helps. Sorry for the late reply.. Thank you guys.

Would be great if you provide how you accomplished this.