On 29/12/06, DS dannyboy@hemuco.com wrote:
I did create the correct Templates, but on the pages I use infoboxes on, they´re messed up. Instead of actual tables / infoboxes as seen on Wikipedia, the data which is supposed to go into the box is printed without a box around it, and I get a lot of "{{#if:"
The {{#if}} and similar come from the ParserFunctions extension (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions), which needs to be installed if using them.
Is it possible that this has to do with the class="infobox"-tag? I lack a lot of experience here, and from what I gathered from tutorials at mediawiki... is it possible I have to add tables to the MySQL database for the class="infobox" to work?
Infoboxes on Wikipedia generally use CSS classes defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Monobook.css. You can "borrow" these from Wikipedia itself; visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css, and click "view source", for instance - a little searching will be needed to pinpoint the required CSS. This can then be pasted into the same page on your local wiki - visit MediaWiki:Common.css and hit the "edit" button, then paste it in, and do a hard refresh in the browser.
Rob Church