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As frequent chatters on [[The Sims Wiki: Discord|the Discord server]] are probably already aware, A few of us (namely [[User:Nikel23|Nikel23]], [[User:K6ka|K6ka]], and myself) have been working on a new visual design for infobox templates<ref group="note">For those who are unaware or unfamiliar with the term, an "infobox" is a [[Help:Templates|template]] that displays on the right-hand side of a page, and usually includes the name of the page or the subject, a picture, and major details about the subject. You can find infoboxes on pages about Sims, families, objects, video games, and more</ref> on The Sims Wiki. Our current infobox design is several years old, and was designed in order to more closely match what was at the time the wiki's overall design theme. However, that theme has been changed, so currently our infoboxes don't really match anything else.
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:::'''Bump.''' I just saw [[Santa Claus]] has the new template. It's aesthetically appealing. [[User:Auror Andrachome|Ѧüя◎ґ]] ([[User talk:Auror Andrachome|talk]]) 16:32, June 8, 2018 (UTC)
::::'''Support''' - I didn't say explicitly in the explanation above, but I'd support migrating the infobox to the new markup ''as long as doing so doesn't compromise its appearance for desktop users.'' -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 16:50, June 8, 2018 (UTC)
==New design is live - "post-launch" discussion==
As of today (well, technically probably a couple of days ago), the infobox templates are live and free to be used on the wiki. I'm keeping this thread open for the time being to allow for any community feedback, comments, questions, complaints, concerns, queries, etc.
I've [[User blog:LostInRiverview/Infobox template migration|posted a wall-of-text blog post]] detailing what is happening now, but I'll reiterate briefly what's happening.
* New infoboxes are ready to be used on the wiki
* {{t|Simbio-start}} and the Simbio templates are being depreciated; canon pages will be manually converted from Simbio to Infobox Sim
* ????
* Profit
As said before, any questions, comments, concerns, etc. are welcome here. Also note that there are a few active discussion sections above this one, namely the open question regarding converting our infoboxes to Portable Infobox markup. Be sure to read and/or weigh in on those as well. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 23:51, June 12, 2018 (UTC)
:A bit of an update... I've dusted off [[User:LiRBot|LiRBot]] and I've run through a few infobox conversions. Most pages previously transcluding {{t|Object}} now use {{t|Infobox object}} instead, most pages that used {{t|Pet}} now use {{t|Infobox pet}}, and most pages that used {{t|Game}} now use {{t|Infobox game}}. I should note, for the record (not that it isn't visible in Recentchanges anyways) that I did slightly misconfigure AWB and ended up with quite a few false positives saved before I realized the mistake and stopped the bot process. I reverted all the errors I found, but it's possible that there are some I've missed. I know what I screwed up and I re-ran the bot process without any issues, but just be aware that there might be some minor issues that need to be resolved. I'm heading to bed now, but when I get time I will launch AWB again and see what else needs converting. I don't think that AWB is going to be able to handle the Simbio conversions though... that's going to require actual editors. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 06:05, June 13, 2018 (UTC)
:I have also run [[User:K6kaBOT|K6kaBOT]] on articles that use {{tl|Sim}}; in fact, both K6kaBOT and LiRBot ran together at the same time to speed things up. Quite a remarkable ambition! We still need to migrate {{tl|Urb}} to {{tl|Infobox urb}} and {{tl|Medsim}} to {{tl|Infobox medsim}}, but at least the bulk of the Sim-infobox templates have been completed. Converting Simbio is unfortunately too complex for AWB (and maybe even other bot programs like pywikipediabot) so it will need to be done manually. —[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 16:17, June 14, 2018 (UTC)
==Conclusion==
It's been over a month since the last post here, and the infoboxes have been fully implemented across the canon side of the wiki. Any additional discussions about the infoboxes should take place in a new forum post. Thank you to everyone who participated in the infobox development, discussion, and conversion! -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 22:42, July 22, 2018 (UTC)
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