2009/3/3 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On another note, wow. I hadn't realised how much stuff was in our infoboxes. The five lines of government I can understand, the two GDPs ditto, but do we really need a quick-reference for "proportion of area which is water", the Gini coefficient, or the side of the road it uses?
Why not? It's incredibly templatable and it's probably of use to *someone*.
Yeah, but the more information we put in the infoboxes, the harder it becomes to find the most frequently requested bits - area, population, etc. I'm all for us being helpful to the people who want to know abtruse demographic data, but if we can do it without the schoolkids looking for "population" getting overwhelmed, so much the better!
Perhaps this would be an excellent use for the show/hide buttons we're getting on a lot of templates -the "demographics" section giving you a population figure and an option to show another forty sets of statistics, for example.