Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4970747-20150929041739/@comment-1251315-20150929091021

The generic Infobox template on newly created wiki's is supposed to give you an idea as to how to code them. You are not supposed to use that template in every article on the wiki as an infobox since it is too basic and does not have any capabilities for expansion, not to mention requires an unnecessary number of parameters. What you should be doing is creating individual infoboxes for each subject matter, which has defined parameters, which gives you better control over each particular type.

For example, on a wiki I help out on, we have separate infoboxes for: Each infobox has its own parameters and rows, allowing each to be specified and allowing for infinite expansion as new information becomes available (eg, if someone started adding information to pages that could serve better in the infobox, such as a statistic, but the row doesn't exist, we can just add a new row in the infobox with ease). This also means that we can create a proper set of style guidelines, with a link to the infobox that should be used for each type of page.
 * Game articles
 * Buildings
 * Missions
 * Items
 * People

The portable infobox system is designed with this idea in mind. You should probably look into knowing how to create individual infoboxes first, instead of just using the generic template that is created during wiki creation.

I would link the infobox coding that I use on my wiki, but it requires various extensions to be enabled and may be too advanced: if you wish a link, you can ask and I'll post one here. :)