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VisualEditor: Call the "transclusion" dialog a "template" dialog (in the toolbar and elsewhere), even though it lets you add non-template transclusions
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Description

Right now the way that you add a template through the VisualEditor is by choosing the Transclusion option from the toolbar.

'Transclusion' is programmer jargon. Regular people have no idea what that means. 'Template' is a somewhat ambiguous term, but at least it matches all of our documentation and the name of the namespace. It is also less scary sounding.


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Severity: enhancement

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bz55434

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:14 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz55434.

Eh. Maybe. We've been talking about this for months and months (surprised that there's not an extant bug for this). The problem is that though "transclusion" is indeed confusing and a surprising word, it has the advantage of being correct, and "template" is even more confusing (and just jargon from a different well).

  • Bug 58163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Change 117151 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Re-label "Transclusion" button to "Template", as that's now the default

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117151

Change 117151 merged by jenkins-bot:
Re-label "Transclusion" button to "Template", as that's now the default

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117151

Created attachment 15228
Transclusion vs. Template

I'm still seeing a few "transclusion" in the dialogs, on English Wikipedia.

Attached:

transclusion_vs._template.png (537×788 px, 48 KB)

(In reply to Helder from comment #5)

Created attachment 15228 [details]
Transclusion vs. Template

I'm still seeing a few "transclusion" in the dialogs, on English Wikipedia.

Transclusion dialog != template dialog; transclusion = multiple template dialog.

Attached:

transclusion_vs._template.png (537×788 px, 48 KB)

'Transclusion' is programmer jargon. Regular people have no idea what that means.

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