Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150520141815

Ducksoup wrote:

That's why we're releasing this new early beta markup for infoboxes. This is going to be a collaborative process; we need to get mobile right and we need to do it with your help. Feature requests, markup suggestions, tag changes, anything - let us know here. We may not implement them all, but we will read them all.

This is a first (and baby) step in a long transition towards mobile-friendly content. It'll be a long trip, but Wikia's actually stoked to start giving y'all the tools to get there, and we'll be around to help every step of the way.

Please use the comments section below to share your thoughts and ideas! Well, it is fine to have a markup, but I think the one you currently have is far too complex for a regular wikian. Rather than keeping this complicated soup of tags and curly brackets, you can use LUA. The infoboxbuilder would create the appropriate markup, and transclude it in the page once it is saved. This level of abstraction would facilitate infobox creation and most users would be none the wiser.

Personally, since the introduction of LUA, I've always believed wikia should deprecate and remove all parserfunctions, reduce the emphasis on using tags and let Lua do the heavy-lifting. In fact, I've started hunting down and removing all those abandonware wikitext-parserfunction-html templates. Although unfortunately some templates created by wikia bot can't be deleted.