On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com
wrote:
Or, have them filled from Wikidata. Then, {{Infobox}} would be all the wikitext you need. This could also help to "abstract" infoboxes to load a placeholder/hint on mobile, then loading the box on request (click).
Well, one can dream...
This would be ideal I think, since it would allow for more responsive styling without resorting to ugly hacks specific to infobox markup.
So far as I can tell though, there is one major blocker to this: edibility. People need to be able to update the infobox data without leaving Wikipedia and being sent to Yet Another Wiki. This is potentially doable in VisualEditor I think, but is hard or maybe impossible to do with any elegance in wikitext.