Collapse infoboxes by default / make it easier to skip infoboxes
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	• Jhernandez
	Aug 20 2015, 12:25 PM

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problem: infoboxes can dominate the reading experience making it difficult to read other content.

From https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Smzxv2i31m9uo12e&topic_showPostId=smzxv2ilr3hmq9nq#flow-post-smzxv2ilr3hmq9nq

From Doc James
We have some very large infoboxes. They are collapsed within the app but on the mobile site come before any other content. We should consider collapsing on mobile. Or at least allowing parts of them to be collapsed.

Mobile apps are already doing this. Lets discuss.

@Unicornisaurous has suggested we might want to make it possible to add a button to jump to content to allow users to skip infoboxes (see T125550)

What other ways could we deal with this problem?

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• Jhernandez created this task.Aug 20 2015, 12:25 PM

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Discussing on the MobileFrontend board.Nov 4 2015, 5:24 PM

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Aklapper moved this task from Proposed to Imported into GCI site on the Google-Code-In-2015 board.Dec 1 2015, 2:14 PM

Jdlrobson removed a project: Google-Code-In-2015.Dec 3 2015, 10:41 PM

This is not a simple task so not suitable for the Code in. It will be made easier by the RESTBase work we are doing.

Jdlrobson added a subtask: T101046: [EPIC] Use MCS as parser for main content in mobile web.Dec 3 2015, 11:35 PM

I am considering to prototype infobox and navbox identification / wrapping in https://github.com/gwicke/parsoid-dom-utils, with an eye towards integrating this into parsoid proper longer term.

My proposal is to wrap such elements into custom elements (ex: <wp-infobox>, <wp-navbox>), and then filter / on-demand load them.

Jdlrobson mentioned this in T125550: Add "jump to first section" button on pages with long infoboxes.Feb 2 2016, 11:23 PM

Unicornisaurous subscribed.Feb 3 2016, 1:37 AM

Jdlrobson renamed this task from Collapse infoboxes by default to Collapse infoboxes by default / make it easier to skip infoboxes.Feb 5 2016, 12:17 AM

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)

Jdlrobson merged a task: T125550: Add "jump to first section" button on pages with long infoboxes.

Jdlrobson added subscribers: phuedx, • Nirzar, bd808 and 2 others.

Unicornisaurous awarded a token.Feb 5 2016, 12:20 AM

MBinder_WMF added a project: Web-Team-Backlog.May 17 2016, 6:33 PM

Declined for now given infoboxes are not shown on the mobile website so this is not a problem per-se.

Jdlrobson closed subtask T101046: [EPIC] Use MCS as parser for main content in mobile web as Declined.Dec 19 2019, 4:23 PM