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VisualEditor: Suggest templates more proactively in the template adding dialog
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Description

Currently, in the template adding dialog there is just one search box and a lot of empty space.

A user needs to know the name of the template to insert.

A template could be suggested in a more proactive way. One idea can be to simply show the currently available templates by category, starting from the top and let the user drill down (in enwiki the top is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_templates ; the top category should probably be defined in a wg variable). This will require each project to maintain their templates neatly categorized, but this should be done anyway ;)

Another possibility is to let the projects define lists of commonly used templates, or to show a list of the most frequently transcluded ones.

[And see also the trivial bug 69692.]


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz69787

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:28 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz69787.

I think this is bug 53590.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 53590 ***