Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-4926622-20130427161016/@comment-10688548-20130513005208

There is a wiki called the starter wiki. When you start a wiki, every page on the Starter Wiki is copied to your wiki: so when you're talking about a template that you haven't written or copied yourself, then you're talking about the template on the Starter Wiki.

Once upon a time, older versions of Template:Infobox on the Starter Wiki were just like that: you specified the heading for each row, and the data to fill each row. Because it was on the Starter Wiki, many old wikis still have the old template design installed: check out that on my own Wolfenstein Wiki for an example.

So yes, on some wikis, you can specify "Row 1 title", "Row 1 info", "Row 2 title", "Row 2 info", and so on, and use the same infobox for everything.... but that sucks. It's honestly a very poor plan, which is why it's much better to have specific templates for different subjects, and why the change in style on the Starter Wiki (and therefore all other new wikis) was made.