[WikiEN-l] Readers like infoboxes

[Steve Summit]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 21/01/2008, aliasd <wiki4 at da-bom.com> wrote:
>> ...It would be great to select an infobox by cat from a dropdown menu,
>> have all the fields displayed form style...
>
> 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.

Indeed.  They're the stealth advance guard of the Semantic
Wikipedia, unwittingly beloved by lots of people who either have
never heard of the "Semantic" idea, or imagine that they believe
it's too theoretical or unnecessarily complicated or otherwise
not for them.