Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes/Statistics

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


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

 * (since merged into Infobox person) was created in August 2004
 * Infobox settlement was stared in January 2005
 * earlier..?

Microformats have been in infoboxes.

Other languages
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:Mod%C3%A8le:Taxobox
 * 130,151 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de tax%C3%B3n
 * 27,432 using it:Template:Tassobox


 * Places:
 * 163,776 using fr:Mod%C3%A8le: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:Mod%C3%A8le: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.)


 * Albums
 * 6,850 using de:Vorlage:Infobox Musikalbum
 * 18,667 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de %C3%A1lbum
 * 43,957 using it:Template:Album
 * 27,212 using fr:Mod%C3%A8le:Infobox Musique %28%C5%93uvre%29

Found via other methods, that weren't as conclusive, but generally support Places / People (esp. footballer) / Music:


 * French (via fr:Spécial:Modèles les plus liés and fr:Utilisateur:Emijrp/Most linked templates status)
 * 36,855 using fr:Mod%C3%A8le:Infobox Commune de France
 * 27,212 using fr:Mod%C3%A8le:Infobox Musique %28%C5%93uvre%29
 * 24,527 using fr:Mod%C3%A8le:Infobox Footballeur


 * Spanish (via es:Especial:PlantillasMásUsadas and es:Wikipedia:Protección de plantillas)
 * 141,497 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de persona
 * 86,890 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de entidad subnacional
 * 23,635 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de futbolista
 * 19,991 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de artista musical
 * 18,667 using es:Plantilla:Ficha de %C3%A1lbum


 * German (via de:Spezial:Meistbenutzte Vorlagen and de:Benutzer:Emijrp/Most linked templates status)
 * 12,629 using de:Vorlage:Infobox Fluss
 * 10,234 using de:Vorlage:Infobox Band


 * Italian (via it:Speciale:TemplatePiùRichiamati)