We now have fully configured visual infobox editors ("wizards") for all three types of infobox that are actually in use:
This makes it easy for all users to add and modify such infoboxes, regardless of their understanding of wikitext. We have many pages with no infobox which might benefit from one. The wizards can make it easier to fill this gap.
To add an infobox, edit the page where you want to add the box. Use the Visual Editor - the wizard can not be used in the source editor. Navigate to where you want the box to be and select Insert -> Infobox -> "Infobox character" or "Infobox item" or "Infobox location". An input dialog will open, the TemplateWizard. Use it to add one or two properties that you know the value of. For each field, clicking on the information button ⓘ shows a pop-up with description of the field, together with the example value. If you want to copy the example value, you can do so in that pop-up.
"Fully configured" means that all fields have a description, an example value and a type, so that editors do not have to guess what to enter and how. Also, for these infoboxes you will not see any more a confusing message like "There is no description for this template".
Please give feedback about whether the field descriptions make sense. In particular, for location infoboxes, the intended use of "inhabitants" is not quite obvious to me. Is the field only applicable to owners and tenants, or also to people of a land?
The remaining types of infobox are all completely unused, so I have not bothered to configure the wizard for those. If anyone would like to use any of those, please go ahead and apply templatedata there, or give a shout.
For the technically curious[]
Here is how this works. I have added three things to each of the infobox doc pages referenced above:
- A templatedata tag. (See third item below.)
- Instructions on how to add an infobox, with some "lessons learned" (Template:Infobox creation help)
- Instructions on how to create and modify the templatedata (Template:Templatedata help)