Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150604103638

Based on what you say in the rest of your comment, I assume you were actually referring to the styling of the infobox instead of the data. There is one good point raised by Robcamstone. Sharing templates is really a nice approach to reducing time spent creating these. But styling  won't be carried over when these pages are imported. For example, while the templates can be previewed in the templates.wikia, different styles won't be visible. Short of asking a templates.wikia admin to add a bunch of "stylish preset css", anyone looking at the default infobox theme would probably think that it looks particularly "old fashioned".

It is a shame though that portable infobox code doesn't allow importing CSS from a page, aside from using Common.js or Special:CSS. This would make it simpler to easily import any templates along with default styling, and without worrying about asking "permission" from admins.Although, perhaps a javascript hack could add this functionality. Anyway,  while templates wikia serves as a perfect place to store frequently used templates perhaps dev wikia can serve as a place to store Portable infobox CSS.

Added: This brings me to another point. Template transclusion is only allowed from community.wikia.com. Perhaps if a namespace is added to Templates.wikia or community wikia for infobox templates, this would reduce the time spent creating these. In some cases such as the "book" infobox, there wouldn't be a need to change the tags, but only the css styling so transcluding the page would probably be enough.

These could also be automatically imported when a new wikia is created.