On 21/01/2008, aliasd wiki4@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.
- d.