Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150929231108/@comment-1807002-20151114063952

Hello, I was actually trying to find more out about these new infoboxes and the pressure of changing to them cause I am not too happy about it.

I have been editing wikis on and off for 5 years (Dragon Age Wiki in the early days, Cafe World Wiki till I couldn't get in to the game and now Paradise Bay Wiki), self taugh wiki code and html with some help from awesome admins. CSS of course is a new scary world to me for one who self taught amateur and just starting to test the waters I have managed to transfer lots of infobox info from templates to the MediaWiki:Wikia.css on our wiki Yay me, but this now portable infobox seems like a blow to the efforts I have been doing for years.

I finally feel like a wiki infobox guru and it is now obsolete? And hinders my wiki cause what old infobox isn't as mobile friendly as the new one? I extremely dislike the mobile view it does no justice to the full view of a wiki. For some reason I see no images on my mobile view (I have had some people say they don't even see infoboxes (maybe cause it is the old ones but really?)), support asked for screen shots then closed my ticket (was not impressed so I said 'screw mobile view' then focused on full site view)).

I use several tiers in my infoboxes to accomodate the style/theme/colors, use of transformers and complexity of the game our wiki is about. I am concerned about our Infobox Templates and their respected templates that rely on their infobox transformers- plus we most likely will add more that may require it's own unique needs. I finally have a decent grasp on the old infoboxes I feel that this change is not even worth attempting. CSS tables look like garbly goop to me though I am sure people who actually done courses on it or only have done CSS think HTLM is archaic and inferior- fair enough but really will we be forced to upgrade eventually?

So after all my ranting (sorry about that you have no idea how much I acutally love wiki/wikias) how can my situation be accomdated to the new infobox without losing all my effort and time spent on the old ones? Can I ignore the new infoboxes indefinitely? Will I be forced to upgrade one day? Is there alternatives? I'd be willing to put work in but I say right now I am not a fan of CSS tables, I like my HTML, I like our current color and style of our current boxes and old infoboxes but if we do not lose what I have put in I'd consider some middle ground or another option. Unless you can do the transfer- guarenteeing my infoboxes will appear exactly the same (not the grey defaults) and still work as they do now (with our transformers and their respected templates).

Thank you in advance for your time and for Wikis in general. Feel free to take a look at our wiki's infoboxes and how we use them. Maybe if you have a better understanding of what we fear to lose maybe better ways can be implemented or offered for this transition.

Cheers