Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150611154101

Ohmystars wrote: Inez wrote:Recently we are thinking about building tools that would increase adoption of new portable infoboxes among admins and communities. Hello, nice to hear you guys are working on ways to make it easier to implement the infobox. I think the biggest stumbling block for the average admin is the coding. Some already get a headache just seeing the XML tags, so I doubt they would bother studying the instructions in the Help page and test it out in your preview tool. IMO, the best way to increase the adoption is to make the coding "invisible" during the creation process. Make a GUI tool that allows users to fill in the data label and source in input fields, create groups, then add a button at the end to generate the XML tags which they can copy and paste in a template. The more advanced users can always adjust the code if they want and/or know how. While I do agree with your perspective. There's one thing people often tend to overlook, the vast majority of wikis use templates with more/less the same structure. Character, Books, item, episode, event, and few others. They merely add/remove things from it. So converting some of the popular infoboxes in template.wikia would probably greatly reduce the trouble. Very few people will try to reinvent the wheel when it works very well already.