#Country Boxes

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thorny panther
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I am very new to wikimedia and some advice on how to add country boxes or any form of wiki box tbh would help

obsidian cypress
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This isn't the server for Wikimedia Foundation, it's for Miraheze. You might want to ask over there instead.

thorny panther
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this is for my miraheze wiki

plucky herald
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Do you mean MediaWiki?

thorny panther
plucky herald
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No worries

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I make fun of the confusion all the time

thorny panther
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how do i add country / wiki boxes to miraheze

plucky herald
thorny panther
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i know nothing

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that means nothing to me

plucky herald
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[[User:Legroom/Infoboxes]]

alpine echoBOT
thorny panther
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please just speak to me like im an idiot over all this

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i know nothing

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that page makes no sense

obsidian cypress
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You spent less than a minute trying to read that page, and decided it makes no sense?

thorny panther
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i have no understanding of mediawiki

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that is all

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i dont know what im doing

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can u please send some basics maybe

short bison
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the page explains, if you refuse to read a text then

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

obsidian cypress
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Maybe basic help pages?

thorny panther
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yes

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where can i find them

obsidian cypress
thorny panther
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ty

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where can find the Special:InfoboxBuilder

obsidian cypress
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on your wiki. try searching for it, or typing it into the URL bar.

plucky herald
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[[Special:InfoboxBuilder]] but your wiki url

alpine echoBOT
plucky herald
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Whoops

thorny panther
plucky herald
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Go to Special:ManageWiki/extensions

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Search and enable portable Infobox

thorny panther
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done

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ty

hybrid ridge
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The best tip I can give you: Start simple, and don't begin lifting the heavy work from the beginning.

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Try to understand what {{{1}}} means, and how that differs from {{{1|}}}

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Then try to understand what this means : {{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{{1}}}| }}

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That can help you understand the basics of making a Infobox.

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Everyone can copy and paste, but if you don't understand the basics of the code, you can't see what goes wrong. As things go wrong, you need to know where to look.

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And making mistakes in the beginning is nothing to be afraid of, as we all started like that. Even experienced ones still make errors 😉

plucky herald
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For a table infobox yea

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PI handled this part of the logic for you

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But still a good tip

hybrid ridge
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I still make them like

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... that

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Especially if I need an Infobox I won't use often

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Better than importing a module you have to configure to your needs

plucky herald
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PI Is an extension

hybrid ridge
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And that Infobox builder isn't everything either

plucky herald
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It just adds a special page and parsing of the XML tags

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I just use xml

hybrid ridge
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Yeah, I never learned that 😄 (50+ and out of date

balmy kiln
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It is a million times easier to learn to use those html/xml-style tags of PI, than trying to code it from scratch on the page yourself. And once you do learn how to use it properly (ie not through the visual builder), it can do pretty much anything

hybrid ridge