On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
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The oldest infoboxes predate [[T:Infobox]], and even templates themselves; they will be very hard to count. The earliest infobox I found was at [[Beryllium]], on 2 Feb 2002. It wasn't called "Infobox" then, of course, but it certainly was one.
Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext, I presume? The questioner might be asking when the first templates were created, and might not realised that the same thing can be done direct with using templates. When did the template namespace start, anyway?
Carcharoth