Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-5397266-20130530164538/@comment-10688548-20130530173725

That being said, there is actually (believe it or not) a coherent idea behind the new infobox system. You're not actually supposed to use it on pages, rather, you're supposed to copy the Template:Infobox that was given to you to new locations and modify it to your needs. Example:

Say I have a wiki about Pink Floyd, a British band.
 * 1) Copy Template:Infobox to Template:Infobox Pink Floyd song.
 * 2) Change "First", "Second", "Third" to "Album", "Year", "Genre".
 * 3) Change,  ,   to  ,  ,
 * 4) Modify Template:Infobox Pink Floyd song/doc, the documentation page, to match the new parameters.

And voila, a perfectly useful (specific) infobox template!

It's actually a very good thing to have specific infobox templates for specific subjects, and actually a very bad idea to have one catch-all template which you use for everything. That's why the transition was made to the new system.