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 * User blog:LostInRiverview/The Infobox Migration Project

All The Sims Wiki users; the I.M.P. needs your help!

I.M.P. stands for the wiki's Infobox Migration Project. This project will help us bring the newly designed infobox templates to the thousands of different pages on The Sims Wiki. This will be one of the largest undertakings in The Sims Wiki history, and we need as many hands on deck to help us achieve it!

Following a community discussion and extended period of development, a new class of infobox templates was developed. These templates will replace existing infobox templates within the main content space of the wiki (this change is not mandatory for the Fanon namespace). The new infoboxes load faster (ensuring faster page loading times), have a standard appearance on all pages across all uses, and are designed to match the rest of the wiki's visual theme.
 * Why do we need to do this?

While the new templates are being implemented, the old templates will still be kept (mainly for the benefit of fanon pages), so that means we need to create brand new templates for the new infoboxes. Additionally, the old templates are sometimes redundant or poorly-written, and the "rules" for how to use them can vary from template to template. The new templates have standardized parameters, meaning you can use different templates with more confidence.

All these changes, however, necessitate a manual conversion; in many cases, the changes that need to be made will be too complex for a "Bot" to do by itself.

The exact changes depend on the particular template being changed, and vary from page to page depending on how the template is being used currently. A few examples of needed changes include:
 * What is changing?


 * Changing the name of the template being used (usually this is as simple as adding the word "infobox" in front of the name of the old template)
 * Migrating information off of the Simbio-start and other "Simbio" templates, into new "Infobox Sim" templates, as Simbio is outdated and is being phased out.
 * Third example

Anyone who can edit the wiki can be useful. Expand more upon this point later.
 * Who can help?