User blog:Mainframe98/Portable Infoboxes - See the Progress!

Wikia moves to new Infoboxes, called Portable Infoboxes. In short, these infoboxes use a much easier system with XML tags which can be customised by using css, and are fully compatible with mobile devices.

I have been working on rewriting both the templates and CSS for the infoboxes to make sure we can make the change as quick and painless as possible. On my sandbox I have added a section where examples of these new infoboxes are visible. For reference they also have been included at the end of this blog.

While the switch can be made without too much changes on the individual articles, there are a few things to keep in mind:
 * The align parameter has been deprecated.
 * The website parameter now requires complete input, something like.
 * Images can be added without square brackets ([ & ]) and the imagesize parameter has been deprecated in favor of automatic width.
 * All parameters are now optional, except for the title.
 * tags are no longer supported when using in combination with wiki-style links, requiring manual formatting with.
 * For the templates using rounded borders, the inner lines have been removed due incompatibility with the portable infoboxes.
 * For BookInfobox, the section "Price:" has been split in three sections: US, UK & Canada price.
 * Because the templates have been ported using the migration tool, there may be a few typo errors.

See the changes immediately
If you want to see the changes immediately, go to Special:Mypage/common.css and add the following CSS: @import url("http://bioshock.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:mainframe98/Portableinfoboxes.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css");

Read More
A lot of documentation is available, both here on the help pages as in blogs and threads on Community Central.

Help Pages

 * Help:PortableInfoboxes
 * Help:PortableInfoboxes/CSS
 * Help:PortableInfoboxes/Tags
 * Help:Infobox migration

Blogs/Threads on Community Central

 * The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia
 * Infoboxes are evolving - can you help guide their progress? (Very long page, may slow down your browser)