Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes/Statistics

Infoboxes on English Wikipedia[edit]

English Wikipedia has well over 2.4 million infoboxes. The following statistics were compiled in August 2013.

over 1,747,000 infoboxes using {{Infobox}} [1]
Infoboxes flagged for possible conversion to use {{Infobox}}
- over 19,000 using {{Infobox UK place}} [2]
- Others
Infoboxes not using {{Infobox}}, and not flagged for conversion (NB, this number is far higher than the previous group)
- Over 227,000 using {{Taxobox}} [3]
- Over 140,000 using {{Infobox3cols}} [4]
- Over 36,000 using {{Infobox French commune}} [5]
- Over 20,000 using {{Geobox}} [6]
- over 8,000 using {{Chembox}} ([7])
- over 5,000 using {{Drugbox}} ([8])
- Military history infoboxes
  - Aircraft infoboxes; including over 10,000 using {{Infobox aircraft begin}} [9],
  - Ship infoboxes; including over 26,000 {{Infobox ship begin}} [10]
  - Over 12,000 using {{Infobox military conflict}}
  - many other MilHist infoboxes
- Sports biographies
  - over 5,000 using {{Infobox rugby biography}} ([11])
  - over 5,000 using {{Infobox rugby league biography}} ([12])
  - Others
- over 70,000 using {{Infobox officeholder}} ([13])
- over 21,000 using {{Infobox school}} ([14]}
- over 19,000 using {{Infobox video game}} ([15]}
- over 13,000 using {{Infobox German location}} ([16])
- over 12,000 using {{Infobox airport}} ([17])
- over 6,000 using {{Infobox election}} ([18]
- over 6,000 using {{Infobox Indian jurisdiction}} ([19] NB being replaced)
- over 4,000 using {{Infobox Chinese}} ([20])
- over 4,000 using {{Infobox tennis event}} ([21])
- over 3,000 using {{Infobox government agency}} ([22])
- over 3,000 using {{Infobox Olympic event}} ([23])
- over 2,000 using {{Infobox religious building}} ([24])
- over 2,000 using {{Infobox Swiss town}} ([25])
- ~2,000 using {{Infobox Greek Dimos}} ([26])
- ~2,000 using {{Infobox Russian district}} ([27])
- over 1,000 each of {{Infobox Canada electoral district}}, {{Infobox lighthouse}}
- Medal templates; over 9,000 using {{MedalTop}} ([28])
- many others

Running total: over 2,440,000.

We can only know a minimum figure for the number of infoboxes; the true figure, which will always be higher, is less easy to count. Including all the other non-{{Infobox}} infoboxes (see search for "{| class="infobox " with uses under 1,000, the total is certainly over 2.5 million.

Note that there are pages which will never have an infobox, for example disambiguation pages (over 278,000 using {{Dmbox}}).

History[edit]

{{Infobox biography}} (since merged into {{Infobox person}}) was created in August 2004 [29]
{{Infobox settlement}} was stared in January 2005 [30]
earlier..?

Microformats have been in infoboxes since April 2007.

Other languages[edit]

A few informal/imperfect comparisons, of the most used templates in a few of the largest non-English Wikipedias (numbers from July 2013):

Species Taxoboxes

227,099 using en:Template:Taxobox
39,666 using de:Vorlage:Taxobox
81,728 using fr:Modèle:Taxobox
130,151 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de taxón
27,432 using it:Template:Tassobox

Places

163,776 using fr:Modèle:Infobox Subdivision administrative
86,890 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de entidad subnacional
162,682 using it:Template:Divisione amministrativa

(German is weird, they seem to use handmade tables, or someone {subst:}'d all the templates, eg de:London )

People

12,314 using fr:Modèle:Infobox Biographie
13,514 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de persona
240,298 using it:Template:Bio (But displaying a box is optional. Many articles seem to hide the whole thing.)