Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14966981-20151129065257/@comment-26235098-20151202203654

Actually, there isn't really any technical difficulty in terms of moving the prev/next type info into a module, writing a lookup function and wrapping that with a template that can be included in infobox level, removing the need for the parameters. And this would be more efficient than any switches.

My concern - more than difficulty - was that of having more and more info migrated into modules. This needn't really be an issue, as we needn't apply admin-only protection to all of these "data" modules. The main difficulty module was protected d/t vandalism, but we can evaluate if the need arises for the others.

HOWEVER -- there is a BIG HOWEVER I had not remembered till now:

Our infoboxes need to be converted to the new "portable infobox", and I think we should hold off on adding/improvng their functionality for the moment, until we get that squared away.

Imamadmad had started work on this. I can pick up where she left off, but there ARE issues with this conversion as not all our current features will be supported, and we will have to discuss (in a separate thread) possibilities for resolving this... and then implement them fully.

I personally would like to wrap up some other work (integrating stars and regular difficulty look up) before moving to the infobox conversion. This should not take long as the code is written and largely tested. I mostly need to coordinate with DCG and Top Agent, set up a clean test framework, and do a full-case test before publishing.

However, if someone else (BlueEighthNote?) would like to take up the work on portable infoboxes directly, rather than wait for me to finish with stars, just let me know and I'll point you to the existing work-in-progress as well as the Wikia help modules.

It just would make more sense to me to do the portable infobox migration first, before adding/changing the logic for the prev/next...

~ cat