It is a pure pipe dream to think that tables are going to go away because they are so damn useful and visually appealing to the great majority of our readers. Heck, we need /more/ not fewer tables because Wikipedia is filled with tabular/almanac data that isn't at all well-suited to prose.
Think of how difficult it would be to find the thermal conductivity of lithium if there wasn't a table with that information in it. Having this information in a very predictable place for a themed set of articles is a very good thing. But it is ugly in the wikicode code, so;
tarquin wrote:
One simple option would be to put the code for the table on another page, and import it -- much like we do with images. We could agree on nicer table syntax at a later date too.
Which is something I suggested some time ago. A table:namespace would be most useful here. The outside border could be clickable so that a user can navigate to the table namespace page.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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