[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

[Ray Saintonge]

Carcharoth wrote:
> Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>
>   
Yep, this was Maverick149's good work.  I even confess to adapting his 
model to battles and biological taxa. The hard-coding made things much 
easier to follow than transclusions.

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