Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13301-20170502181922/@comment-1370845-20170503204103

35.20.173.109 wrote:

rediculous conspiracy theory, what a joke. that is based off trends from before and adds up, i have no idea what the end goal is but from the looks of it doesn't involve a whole lot with wikis; that i can tell you. I'm also sure that PI is acceptable when its BREAKING templates on pages as of current. not to mention as Fandyllic said, you won't be able to reconstruct like for like replacements. either way, we have moved from wikitext which was standard mediawiki to now XML tags (call it what you want). Yes, it is a ridiculous conspiracy theory. You have no evidence to back up your "staff wants to take over all aspects of wikis and remove mediawiki!!!!!!!!!" claim, and no, "trends" and "adds up" is not evidence. Portable Infoboxes are not some nefarious plot to take control away from local communities. They are a tool that provides standard syntax for every infobox across the network, allowing any new community to easily set up their own infobox, and then very easily style it with CSS, separating code for content from code for presentation. This allows infoboxes created for the desktop skin to work easily on non-desktop skins by using standard syntax that can more easily be interpreted than custom code. And no, it actually is very possible to create like-for-like replacement with PI, or if not, infoboxes that are such a close match that it makes zero difference. I have done it before, and it's been done throughout the network (most obvious example being how Star Wars' infoboxes are basically identical in appearance compared to before).