Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150524162511

DEmersonJMFM wrote:I'm not a professional coder, not even remotely close though I know some of the basics to get things done. UI elements, "standard practices," xml, gui - no idea what you mean. The simple and short answer is that  they are trying to separate the way data is stored, from the way it is displayed, and the way it is described. So Infobox tags = how data is going to be structured, template = How data is going to be stored, css = how it will be presented (styled).

Currently, the best wikitext templates are a mess. They have too much repetitive code, and are horrible for a new editor to try to understand and use. Even experienced programmers will cringe at the thought of making an edit to those wikitext templates, and that's saying something considering that programmers deal with worst unintelligible gibberish (sometimes).