Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150716214614

DEmersonJMFM wrote: Dessamator wrote: Frankly speaking that image is too big for an infobox, it easily spans at least 2 pages. Imagine looking at that image in cellphone or mobile device. For now it is probably best to restrict the height of the image to about 1/4 (400px) of a page. Maybe for you. The images we use are important and aren't going to change. Mobile isn't a problem with the new infoboxes anyway as they are collapsed by default.

Thanks Shareif. didn't cross my mind. Well not for me, it is a general rule of a thumb for an infobox to[1] :

"collect and present a subset of information about its subject"

That infobox emphasizes an image, rather than providing an easy to read summary about the article, and it requires considerable scrolling to read the actual information. One could actually argue that it defeats the purpose of portable infoboxes. More importantly, infoboxes aren't designed for the editors or the page to "look good", they are meant for the readers to obtain quick information about an article.

That's akin to writing an article where the first page is filled with a huge image, and the content can only be seen after scrolling. According to wikipedia this is how an infobox should look like:


 * wikipedia:File:Crostata_infobox.png