Gary Kirk wrote:
I would recommend you install Tim Starling's ParserFunctions - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions - as lots of Wikipedia's templates and infoboxes use these.
Copying from Wikipedia is probably the best way to learn about infoboxes. Beware however that just copying them will likely result in them looking like an odd bunch of <td> tags; you'll need to find the relevant CSS in (I think) MediaWiki:Common.css
The link I got from Gary Kirk wasn't the right one, but after some digging, I found the extension he mentioned. However, it seems to require PHP5, which I don't have- that's why I'm still running MediaWiki 1.6.10, because it was the last version to support PHP4. My server has no plans to upgrade, last time I checked. Is there an older version of the ParserFunctions extension which is compatible with PHP4? Thanks, -Azurite