Community Wishlist/Wishes/Quickly Add Infobox/en
Description
This is a slightly modified version of a previous wish, Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Quickly add infobox
Despite being optional, the infobox is a great summary tool. And there is a huge list due to the diversity of topics in the encyclopedia.
Suggestion: having a button with a list of infoboxes to add quickly, or when creating a new article the assistant suggests a related infobox; for example: article biographies, biography infobox. In addition to adding the option to hide the infobox, this is good on mobile.
Relevant quotes:
I did some work on this at the 2019 Hackathon, but paused it when WMDE picked up template UI improvements. That project is now finished but they didn't get around to browsing templates. My patch from 2019 is still up and wouldn't take a lot of effort to improve. ESanders (WMF)
We worked on this, at least partially, see WMDE Technical Wishes/Finding and inserting templates. We explored more ideas but had to cut corners with the limited resources we have. Please check out the prototype for a template finder (hidden in a collapsed section on that page). Feel free to pick this up when it helps. Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) (talk)
I have a personal script (it's not production-ready) that uses SPARQL query to find proper infobox using Wikidata, and it works pretty well (example for Michael Jordan). So I think that the solution could be more intelligent than just an extended search interface. We have a lot of data about templates (not only infoboxes) and can suggest the best ones for the current article. — putnik
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Type of wish
Feature request
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