Infoboxes cause a huge problem on mobile and I've been asking us to be guinea pigs for this sort of thing.
I would like mobile to scrub infoboxes and then generate them in a more appropriate place in the UI using Wikidata. I was told this would be controversial though... On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Just an idea inspired by Brandon's Wikimania talk and some discussions at > Wikidata-L: We can completely remove infobox templates. More precisely, the > templates may stay, but the code that places them in the article can be > removed. > > Let me explain: Wikidata makes it possible to write an infobox without any > parameters - just {{Infobox settlement}} without any |, = and all that. > Wikidata even has a property called "infobox's main topic", a kind of > "meta-property" that can automatically identify which infobox does the > article need, so that you can simply say something like {{Infobox}}. This is > implemented in the Russian Wikipedia using > https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Universal_infocard , which is used on > hundreds of articles there. So it hasn't replaced the usual templates yet, > but the theoretical possibility is there. > > Thus, the only thing left to the editor's discretion is where to place the > infobox. > > This, however, can be handled by Winter. Winter puts infobox-like > information on the info rail*, and if we plan to be bold enough to take it > completely out of the article's prose flow, why not just remove it from the > article completely? If an article has an appropriate infobox template, it is > shown on the info rail, and that is it. (The Community will then ask for the > __NOINFOBOX__ magic word, but that's a minor thing.) > > Thoughts? > > * That's how I call the "right rail" until there is consensus on a better > name. See > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-August/001897.html > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
