Community Wishlist/Wishes/Quickly add favorite and related templates
Description
Originally published, and slightly modified from: Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Quickly add favorite and related templates, proposed by TheDJ
It can be very difficult to find a template if you don't exactly remember its name.
Suggestion:
To the template insertion wizard (which is currently empty upon opening) add a list with favorited and related templates. Once you use the searchbar, the searchresults will replace this list.
Templates could have an option to favorite them and these favorites would show up in a list in the initial dialog (a first version could maybe use your watchlist data for this, instead of a separate list). Ideally, it would also show you "Related templates", which are used on pages that share categories with your article. This is similar to how WikiData's recoin works.
//
Comment:
It’s not about finding templates for the first time, it’s about re-finding them. As a beginner, one may spend half an hour finding the appropriate template – and if it doesn’t have an easy-to-remember name (what is easy-to-remember is subjective, so it may not be possible to find a name that’s easy to remember for everyone), one needs to spend this half hour the second, third and fifteenth time as well. This wish doesn’t solve the problem of the first half-hour search, but it does solve the ones of the subsequent ones. —Tacsipacsi
Assigned focus area
Unassigned.
Type of wish
Feature request
Related projects
Wikipedia
Affected users
Beginning editors who do not know the common template names (like infobox/navbox even), and experienced users who keep using the same templates over and over.
Phabricator tasks
Other details
- Created: 18:08, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Last updated: 19:31, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Author: JWheeler-WMF (talk)