Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-24494906-20161101014219

This is a topic that has been going on in the background for a while, but I've come to the conclusion that I can't make the decision just by myself. It's about updating the infobox on all character pages.

Currently, the infobox is coded using wikitext. However, Wikia has developed the so-called "portable infoboxes", another way to code infoboxes.

Usually, I'd just propose to change to portable infoboxes, and I've already converted most of the other infoboxes like that. However, many character infoboxes contain a lot of images, and I wouldn't be surprised if the number of images on some pages would still grow. From my point of view, there's no good solution to handling the images.

So here are the choices:
 * 1) Leave everything as-is.
 * 2) * Pros: We can keep two-level tabs, though that solution won't scale for an arbitrary number of images.
 * 3) * Cons: Normal infoboxes don't work as well on mobile devices. The biggest problem is that tabs do not work on mobile devices and thus the images in the box are just piled on each other. See here: http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Kaneki?useskin=wikiamobile
 * 4) Leave infobox as-is, but display images using slideshow galleries.
 * 5) * Pros: Slideshows basically permit an almost arbitrary number of images in the infobox.
 * 6) * Cons: Slideshow galleries aren't slideshows on mobile devies. Rather, they are displayed like normal galleries, with images placed left-to-right. See here for example: http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Kaneki / http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Kakugan?useskin=wikiamobile . This display mode would be clearly broken in infoboxes.
 * 7) Move to portable infoboxes.
 * 8) * Pros: Works great on mobile devices. Images are placed inside a slideshow there.
 * 9) * Cons: Uses single-level tabs on desktop skin, and I was told by Wikia that there are no plans to introduce slideshows in desktop mode. Take a look at an example here: http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Infoboxes#How_to_use_multiple_images_or_videos The tabs need a lot of space. In Kaneki's case, we would have to spend several rows (I guess about 5) of the infobox just on tab labels before we get to the actual content! And I don't see the number of images decreasing in Kaneki's case, with Ishida's constant appearance changes and a movie in the pipeline, and perhaps there will be another anime season when the movie will be released.

I don't think there's a really good option. All of them have major drawbacks. That's why I would like to know what the community thinks. What option do you prefer? Or would you like to take some fourth option? 