Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150910143111

FishTank wrote: So, a lot of developments to talk about. Interesting.
 * 1) The PIB development team is fully aware that this thread is getting absurdly long, and they love the idea of Infobox Wikia... If you need help, that's a good place to ask for it. ;-)
 * 2) There is a strong push towards making as many Infoboxes portable as possible, and they are keenly aware of many of the challenges of some migration.
 * 3) A HUGE goal is shifting as much infobox information to pure and structured data as possible (eg. "| cost = 100 gold" to "| gold_cost = 100"). They are forward thinking enough that they want EVERY device (including other servers and atypical appliances, from holograms to Siri) to be able to interpret the data and have it MEAN something. (It's not all-terrain, it's any terrain!)
 * 4) A GUI to design Portable Infoboxes is coming. Soon.
 * 5) More syntax is coming for more powerful Infoboxes VERY soon.


 * 1) True that, but at least it is a centralized place to dump complaints and ideas :).


 * 1) This will be a tough sell, the only way I see them achieving this is either with a very userfriendly infobox builder/GUI or with a very versatile API that allows us to build tools to port the infoboxes with ease.
 * 2) Well, it is possible to extend the data source tag so that it has strict parameters such as number(int/float), text(string),and "other". At least, the Wikimedia foundation is betting on lua for infoboxes, and it seems to be working so far. It would be nice to fuse them both though.
 * 3) Excellent!
 * 4) The infoboxes seem quite powerful as, the only thing possibly missing is something like a slider (tabber) for those who want to fill it with images, and maybe a parser for facilitating quick data e.g. json, csv, etc.