@TheDerpySupport
sorry for being absent… had a throat inflammation 
What do you mean by the “tags”?
I intended no change in the visible content. just “refactoring”.
The current plan just involves moving some values from ‘plain text’ to being an embedded value on the same page (which can be edited on the same page, just in a different section that is sort of like variable definition which I think is manageable for the next person who wants to change it.
e.g.
for this wikia page, the top of the source code looks like this:
<includeonly>{{Armor
|{{{1}}}
|name=Crude Plate Mail
|image=File:Crude_plate_mail_male.png
|imagewidth=150
|caption=Crude Plate Mail - male
|icon=File:Crude_Plate_Mail.jpg
|defense=4
|weight=9
|bestdefense=5
|bestweight=8
|desc=Offering adequate protection, it was crafted with extremely heavy and low-quality Cruddium. All but the strongest of warriors will become exhausted after wearing it for a short while.
|recipe=Crude Plate Mail/recipe
|notes=Craftable by [[Blacksmith]], Level 1
}}</includeonly>
So to change say the value “defense” of the item the page represents throughout the page (and throughout the wiki actually), we just change the line “defense=4” into “defense={new value}”, instead of the arbitrary location where it used to be.
Visually, everything should remain.
As for info boxes, usually I use 2 tiers to separate the processing from the style.
I usually create a new 2nd tier infobox that uses the first one (i.e. the one you are using exactly now). All it does is to pump the values to display into the first infobox. The style, etc is all controlled by the first one. iow, there is no changes to the current infobox template, and changing it will still affect all display for infoboxes (including the 2nd tier ones)
One suggestion: we could pick one page just for testing to see if the stuff is ok (collaboration wise). if it is not, and cannot be reconciled, we could always revert the changes. I would probably only be “active” until the infrastructure is up and usable though, after which I will just stick to content contribution.
EDIT: PS. I must still restate that I am using “old tech”. If any mediawiki experts knows better ways/extensions introduced in recent years, please “take over”!
