Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Quickly add infobox

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Quickly add infobox

  • Problem: despite being optional, the infobox is a great summary tool. And there is a huge list due to the diversity of topics in the encyclopedia.
  • Proposed solution: Or having a button with a list of infoboxes to add quickly, or when creating a new article the assistant suggests a related infobox; for example: article biographies, biography infobox. In addition to adding the option to hide the infobox, this is good on mobile.
  • Who would benefit: editors and readers
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets: T55590
  • Proposer: Elilopes (talk) 13:51, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • It would be a very nice thing to have, but until we have Global templates, the configuration for infoboxes will have to be written for each wiki separately, so we'll get stuck with the same problem we have now: some of the larger wikis will enjoy this feature after investing some effort in developing this configuration, and the smaller ones will have nothing. So this should be done after we have global templates. That's exactly what I meant when I wrote the Semantic section in the project proposal. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:54, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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