Oh, you mean the actual infoboxes! I thought that you meant using Wikidata with infoboxes. Not using an infobox at all actually concerns me less, because I care most strongly about translating article, and when an infobox doesn't exist, it doesn't get in the way of the translator :)
That said, hundreds of thousands of articles in a lot of languages do have infoboxes: wars, cities, languages, athletes, members of parliament, animals, music albums and so on, and something must be done about them. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-08-12 23:37 GMT+03:00 David Cuenca <[email protected]>: > In classical music biographies: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classical_music/Guidelines#Biographical_infoboxes > Which was brought to the arbitration comitee: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes > > A general essay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes > > In German Wikipedia: > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Infoboxen_in_Personenartikeln > > A rough translation of the current situation: > > "Again and again people infoboxes are created in the German Wikipedia. > They are also regularly deleted on the grounds: "DE:WP wants no person > infoboxes". Such a statement cannot be clearly determined from the many > discussions on the topic, there is even evidence of a contrary opinion of > the community, is hereby asked whether infoboxes are wanted in persons > articles or not. > > Currently in the German Wikipedia there are infoboxes for athletes and a > few other groups of people." > > That RFC was closed due to a lack of votes to start it. I don't know if > the arrival of Wikidata has changed the perspective during the last 2 years. > > Cheers, > Micru > > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 2014-08-12 22:48 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>: >> >>> On 12 August 2014 14:00, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > What does it entail? >>> >>> In part, resolving the vehement opposition to infoboxes in parts of >>> the English Wikipedia, and the decision not to use them for >>> biographies on the German Wikipedia. >>> >> >> Thanks, this is a useful answer. >> >> Where is it written in German and English? >> >> I'd like to see their reasoning. >> >> -- >> Amir >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > > -- > Etiamsi omnes, ego non > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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