User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-1398253-20150822222408/@comment-954127-20150823103859

"Not sure where you got the angry or nerd concept from. It doesn't really matter if people like it or not. The portable infoboxes use a standard Wikipedia:XML markup, it is like using the Hindi script and claiming that the proper use is an 'angry grammar nazi argument'." Not understanding you. Though I am using the "angry grammar nazi argument" pretty much.

"The converter shows how hard it is to understand the franken-templates"

Many wikis were built with barely any framework. Any Wiki started from late 2004- early 2008 there was no infoboxes to start from, and "EVERYTHING" was built from scratch. This is not the fault of the current admins, as they most likely had no idea to what they have adopted into years later. The more standard Wikia package didn't really begin til sometime in late 2008 (Monaco skin era) and the "modern" wiki setups since the Oasis skin was introduced in late 2010.

You can argue all day about the modern concepts and things, but those wikis are going to have to pretty much have all new infoboxes. The blog above clearly doesn't address the old wiki's in it's message as most of the time the admins to older wiki's don't engage with new projects.

The reason why I'm down here is cause I'm aware that this change is needed for all wiki's, but I'm trying to make a point that getting too picky about how these are designed wont help anyone involved in wiki's before 2008 Monaco skin. I am lead admin at Ghostbusters Wiki (started in 2006), and a "semi-retired admin" at ThunderCats Wiki (also, founded in 2006). Both wiki's will have to have infoboxes redone. So the converter is a joke to these wiki's, and there are likely many wiki's that will be in the same zone.