Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150905204418

Lytora wrote: This thread is way too long already to remain helpful for people just diving in. And the basics isn't even covered in the documentation. Plain conversion of the default Template:Infobox results in the data entry form to not work anymore. All you get is a puzzle piece in the visual editor and source only shows "", not even the attributes it supports without values. I believe you are referring to the old Help:Rich Text Editor.

So, I'm supposed to refer to the infobox template / documentation, copy attribute names and fill in stuff myself or what's the solution here? Do I need a new editor? Where's my quick info form?

The VisualEditor (beta) allows one to add it using the insert button.

There's no mention in the documentation that the visual editor can no longer be used and that we now need to learn field names by heart or copy source from the template. This markup is much much cleaner, so it should be trivial to make quick-entry forms for it, not harder.

Despite them pushing for the new tags, it was released a bit prematurely. This is currently a work in progress, but was released in  parts because that's the best way to obtain feedback. Anyway, they've clearly stated in the past that the rich text editor will eventually go the way of the Dodo, so there's a good chance that no more features will be added to it.

Please make that a priority, I'm afraid without that, many of us will stay with the old, simply cause it feels more of this decade.

A form for building an infobox is/was a priority that was perhaps derailed by the recent javascript security problems.

It is a shame our informal dev community isn't as active as wikipedia. I'm sure somebody would have quickly wiped up a javascript gadget with a form to create these widgets quickly if it were.