Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150804074025

FishTank wrote: There is definitely an issue. So, let's evolve the Infoboxes (just like it says in the title). No reason to do things the same way (eg. group1 =, group2 =, etc.) when we can get a better solution. Any other syntax suggestions for a better way to do things, while we have Wikia's ear / eyes? I perennially bring up HTML5 microdata, and it would be nice to do with the official syntax, but what are some other things? One thing I just thought of is setting a whole page as a data source. For example, I created this module (W:c:dev:Module:csv) which can quickly convert a csv page into a table (lua or html). So perhaps using it as a datasource, e.g:

I think that is actually a great way to facilitate quick infobox creation, in fact mediawiki have an extension called wikibase that essentially extracts data from wikidata and uses extension:capiunto. The general idea is the possibility to get a lot of repeating groups from several sources, e.g. :

Anyway, I'm not sure we still have staff's ear. They've already deemed the feature stable, so they may not be interested in adding stuff that may cause errors in the future.