On 21/01/2008, aliasd <wiki4(a)da-bom.com> wrote:
I would like to see infoboxes one day integrated
more closely with the
Wikipedia UI. It would be great to select an infobox by cat from a dropdown
menu, have all the fields displayed form style with optionals marked as so.
I think it would be incredibly easy to do without actually editing the
infobox syntax. There is a bit of an issue with Infobox duplication and the
ability for the novice to integrate infoboxes with articles.
I used to think of them as a bit of a blight, but one day realised,
uh, these are machine-readable information and hence potentially
vastly useful. The trick would be to standardise the plumbing behind
them without changing each template - the fields and some of the
behaviour need standardising.
make use of infobox information to provide semantic RDF
computer readable representations of wikipedia together with their
other sources. I tried to explain this to the WikiProject Opera and
Classical groups but I was hounded out by POV pushers IMO. I am still
pro infoboxes for all wikipedia articles though.