Meanings
- humorousnonstandardpluralplural of infobox
This is the correct plural (see also “navboxen”, “infoboxen”). It’s the fault of German Wikipedia. A lot of things are the fault of German Wikipedia.
[2024 March 8, Vati (@vaticidalprophet), “What Does a "Wikipedia Edit" Represent?”, in Vates Rising, Substack, retrieved 25 Mar 20263 more examples
It will give you any infobox with "box" in the name as a python dict, but you probably want to use Wikidata (e.g. okapi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82037) because infoboxen are messy (to say the least).
2016 September 14, siznax, “Parse Wikipedia Wikitext Template Named Parameters to Extract Data from Taxobox”, in Stack Overflow, retrieved 25 Mar 2026When this is set to Terrain, Airspace or both the infoboxen still indicate the route mode none and there is no infobox that would indicate the direction that would needed to be flown to avoid the airspace or terrain nor would it inform of how much extra altitude is needed to perform the detour.
2025 May 26, lordfolken, “Route Mode is not reflected in the infoboxen when set to Airspace or Terrain avoidance”, in XCSoar/XCSoar, GitHub, retrieved 25 Mar 2026It would be too bad, though, not to mention the numerous “Infoboxen” scattered throughout; a list of them is given on page 5. These insets concern places and institutions, people and organizations integral or supplementary to the workings of the ÖGL...
2025 September 3, Kling Vincent, “Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur, ed., In guter literarischer Gesellschaft: 60 Jahre Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur. Vienna: Edition Atelier, 2024. 472 pp.”, in Journal of Austrian Studies, volume 58, numbers 2-3, →DOI, page 128
Origin
From infobox + -en (archaic plural suffix).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
infoboxen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoboxen
“infoboxen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoboxen. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “infoboxen,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoboxen.
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