Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-2200849-20150619130604

Wikia is currently working on a new infobox format, which is detailed on the discussion thread on CC. I'd like to start a discussion on whether to adopt this new template system.

The main benefits would be much cleaner code—instead of nested tables and conditionals, we could use custom parser tags, greatly lowering the technical barrier needed to create a custom infobox and also making maintenance easier. The code that gets output is also more semantic, incorporating new, descriptive HTML5 tags.

While the information thread I linked has some examples, keep in mind that (almost) anything can be done with CSS, so if those samples are not to your liking, there are almost endless customization options. As such, if this proposition is approved, and a new infobox design is decided on (or we decide to keep the old one), I think we should update our existing infoboxes to use the new syntax. 