Sunday, July 17, 2011

Creating a Wikipedia Infobox

Folks,

I've done my biggest contribution till date to Wikipedia by creating a Infobox for Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Program. For those who don't know what is an Infobox, this is what wikipedia says about it...

"An infobox is a fixed-format table designed to be added to the top right-hand corner of articles to consistently present a summary of some unifying aspect that the articles share and sometimes to improve navigation to other interrelated articles."

The idea of getting quick and concise information came from few articles mostly biographic.

So I started working on it yesterday and worked quite late, till the wee hours of Sunday(that's today!), got frustrated coz something was not working and I went to sleep :P

I got up and again took it as a challenge and fixed it.

You can see one of the working prototype at following locations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ramshankaryadav/Sandbox and 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses/Fall_2011/Data_Structures_and_Algorithms

The template/documentation can be found @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_WikipediaCampusAmbassadorProgram

Helpful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Designing_infoboxes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion

Please feel free to use it for your respective course pages.

Finally! I'm done with it and that awesome feeling of creating something is here to stay for sure :)