Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26878768-20150816025323/@comment-4731443-20150816044539

It looks like the Portable Infobox treats 0 as a non-value and thus skips that entire datum, which is hopefully something the devs will fix because I can definitely see uses for zeroes in tabular data. As you surely know they are in development, so I'm bringing this up in Thread:841717.

In the meantime, the easiest fix I can think of would be to use  0&amp;zwnj;  to pass 0 values to your template. That entity stands for "zero-width non-joiner" and essentially displays nothing, but still counts as an extra character that lets Wikia see that the parameter has a specified value. This has the upside that if 0 becomes usable later on, you won't have to change anything in your template or the pages that use it.

A more contrived option that would however look more natural to neophytes would be to use 0.0 in your pages and round values in your template using – since I'm guessing you don't expect any decimal values for this specific application, that rounding shouldn't affect the accuracy of your data – or to have people enter 'zero' as text and convert that to a digit in your template.

The less-than-ideal part of this is that you have to instruct your contributors to use that workaround. Ideally you would catch that error in the template itself, but setting a default of zero would introduce potentially misleading information in your infoboxes when users actually don't specify these values.