On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)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.
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Another problem, at least for the time being, is that connection to
Wikidata is still slow (I feel it even with very good Internet access),
and eventually will impede slow mobile connections. I hope this is
curable though.
Cheers
Yaroslav