Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/T112987

T112987 - This is the session pad for the Separating infoboxes and navboxes from article content session, slated to begin at 3:40pm on Monday, January 4, 2016.

Purpose
We now have a number of different proposals for revamping navboxes and infoboxes. The goal of this session is to separate out infoboxes and navboxes from article content, and to provide fluent editors for them. This would allow mobile (for example) to more easily tweak the presentation of infoboxes, without having to parse the article content, recognize them, and pull them out. A desirable side-effect is to make it more routine to source data and label texts for infoboxes/navboxes from wikidata, so that they can be shared among wikis in different languages. An extensible design would allow a local wiki to inherit most of an infobox, but still override, delete, or add fields, to empower local editors and account for political sensitivities.

Agenda

 * 20 minutes - introductory presentation
 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pFUIoC0rQioUBYEs5DQPVJvi9WdCXFEUebUdlo1v0RE/edit?usp=sharing
 * (User:hoo will also present his work briefly)
 * 60 minutes - open discussion
 * Starting with 10 minutes for Q&A about the various existing implementations.

Etherpad
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-T112987

Goals
Leave with a unified plan for the future of infoboxes and navboxes, including buy-in from wikidata, the mediawiki-core team (for storage separate from article content), mobile (to replace their current display hacks), editing (to create the necessary tools), and analytics (to ensure that infoboxes remain easy to edit, but not significantly easier to vandalize).

Chronology
''This section is where an attempt is made to capture the gist of who said what, in what order. A transcript isn't necessary, but it's useful to capture the important points made by speakers as they happen.''