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TemplateData: Re-label "Manage template documentation" to something else
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Description

When you edit a template, TemplateData adds a

[Manage template documentation]

button which takes you to a "Template documentation editor" dialog.

but on many WMF wikis, templates use something like Template:Documentation to transclude documentation, so users will have just seen a

Template documentation [view] [edit] [history] [purge]

line.

It's quite confusing (and if you edit Template:Documentation itself... INCEPTION :) ). Neither has a Help link or "What's this?" tooltips explaining the difference.

The terminology should be changed to "Manage template parameter information". Perhaps Template:Documentation could detect that TemplateData is around; ideally Template:Documentation could be rewritten to show the <templatedata> description and parameter information ("Don't Repeat Yourself").


Version: master
Severity: minor
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Documentation&action=edit
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67621

Details

Reference
bz63389

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:05 AM
bzimport added a project: TemplateData.
bzimport set Reference to bz63389.

(In reply to spage from comment #0)

"Manage template parameter information"

I don't think that that's any less confusing a string. :-)

Change 163028 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Re-label "Manage template documentation" to "Manage TemplateData"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/163028

Change 163028 merged by jenkins-bot:
Re-label "Manage template documentation" to "Manage TemplateData"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/163028