Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-1250011-20131107193327/@comment-1863391-20131110194550

Oscuritaforze wrote: What does turning Template:Infobox:Item into a meta-template mean? Is it just that the other infobox templates are now dependent on it rather than being coded separately? Yeah. See [ Infobox:Statue], for example. This is:
 * cleaner.
 * much more consistent.
 * much easier to adjust than before. If you need to change something, you can just edit the meta-template. There's much less room for error than before.
 * I also took this opportunity to make several CSS enhancements with the infoboxes.

However, this also means that the caches for all pages including item infoboxes will be invalidated when a change needs to be made to Infobox:Item. That's not that big of a deal though. Still, if you need to make some changes to Infobox:Item, it's much more efficient to make the changes in a short period of time, rather than spanning them out over several days or weeks.