On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > 2009/3/3 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: >> By Hakon Wium Lie of Opera: >> >> http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox/ >> >> What is the likelihood of making as much as possible CSS? How to make >> infoboxes degrade gracefully for non-CSS browsers and IE users? > > Youch, that's messy in IE7. Lovely though it may be, that 30-50% of > our audience would not be happy... > > On another note, wow. I hadn't realised how much stuff was in our > infoboxes. The five lines of government I can understand, the two GDPs > ditto, but do we really need a quick-reference for "proportion of area > which is water", the Gini coefficient, or the side of the road it > uses?
Probably yes, but not in a box but in a separate article. I think I saw one once, a separate article on stats for a country, but I can't remember where I saw that. When some infoboxes are longer than a small article, you know something has bloated somewhere. I looked at United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States And the number of sub-articles is mind-numbingly large. Many of those have sub-infoboxes, so maybe too much is being put in the main country infoboxes? Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States The weather articles are similarly stats- and table-heavy. I'm sure they are useful, but do people really use them? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
