Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150820165710

TableWiz wrote: With The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia blog, I again tried to use PortableInfoboxes via VisualEditor and still get this message

"This template does not have fields to edit. Make changes to the template on its page."

These PortableInfoboxes are very elitist: That's functionality that has yet to be added. I can easily edit infoboxes using visual editor provided I paste the original paramaters. The only problem is that unlike normal templates it doesn't automatically retrieve the infobox fields.
 * styling is now done via CSS so limited to Admin
 * cannot be used by novice wikians who only use VisualEditor

Just to be clear, this auto-parameter functionality isn't part of the standard mediawiki software even the latest doesn't have it. It is an extension or plugin that wikia created to facilitate template creation/use.

The fact is that Visual editor by default also doesn't allow adding html tags to the editor so it always adds  tags to any html tags pasted in the editor. This functionality also has to be added to the visual editor extension, as a plugin.

It is funny that you call the potboxes elitist, the wikipedians have called the visual editor bad and awful because it doesn't cater to all their needs.

To each their own I guess.