Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150722165348

Dianafa wrote: @Robcamstone good point about the infobox width, we'll consider it as a part of next iteration of portable infoboxes feature :)

Well, and it's not that the PortableInfoboxes have broken the templates and your wikis! It's probably the matter of bad use of the migration tool especially if combined with lack of acknowlegent to admins and moderators.

We'll try to roll back all damaged templates and we're really sorry about the shame we get.

Remember your average user wants to added/edit information without the need to use CSS.

-- we remember about this and we are currently working on a new, visual tool which will allow to create a infobox template without coding, so stay tuned! :) But the main complaint seems to be that the default infobox looks "horrible", will the tool also create the appropriate code in Special:CSS or somewhere else, and add an import to special:css?

I think that assuming most admins are technically minded is a mistake, many of them may depend on templates or css styling created by others. More importantly, someone who knows how to do basic inline styling will not necessarily know how to navigate special:css/wikia.css.

The way I see it, there are a couple of possible solutions:

1) The portableboxbuilder will create the styling and allow changes, and save these to a MediaWiki:Potboxes.css, and also create the appropriate import in Special:css

2) It creates a generic xml along with css, and puts it in a draft page, with instructions for how admins can copy it.

3) An improved css style is added to dev.wikia (and locked), and it becomes a default option, e.g. theme-source="wikiatheme".

As long as you can't get rid of that looks "awful" stigma, you're bound to have a lot of resistance  even in wikias with experienced admins/editors.