Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Editing/Easy access Templates

Easy access Templates

  • Problem: Accessing and choosing popular templates takes more clicks than it should.
  • Proposed solution:
     
    Allow users to configure templates they commonly use so that they can be easily selected from the TemplateWizard dialog. Each community could also define their own list of "popular" templates that is shown by default and can be changed on a per-user basis.
  • Who would benefit: Editors who frequently use the same templates
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Omar.idma (talk) 06:09, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Discussion

  • This would be difficult because we have no automated means to determine which templates are "popular" for editors. We'd also need to make this configurable per-wiki, since not every wiki has the same templates. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 23:05, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok. Why not allow the users themselves to add their desired templates. Add a plus button underneath so users can search and implement the templates they want. Would this be less demanding engineering-wise? Omar.idma (talk) 00:25, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, allowing you to configure it on a per-user basis may make more sense. We can also allow each community to define their own list of templates. That should be fairly easy to do I think. What we were avoiding was any "automatic" lists of popular templates. I have updated the proposal wording to reflect this, hope that's okay :) Thanks, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 03:46, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @MusikAnimal (WMF)@Omar.idma@: Users of any wiki can help categorize these templates manually, although a variable can be defined and added manually for each template, and these variables can be used to categorize templates automatically.
    You can even allow any user to personalize; In any case, this idea will be very useful and practical. Mohammad ebz (talk) 06:44, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Pinging discussants about wish selection and other updates

Hello everyone,

This is a ping to let you know that this wish and 3 other requests related to templates have been selected for development.

Secondly there are updates regarding the Wishlist Survey. A mockup of the new wish proposal form is available. There is also an update on changes coming to how participants vote.

Additionally, come let's explore this idea to group wishes into Focus Areas; a Focus Area may be adopted by various movement stakeholders for addressing. The first example is the Template Picker Improvements Project, which groups four related wishes about template improvements (e.g. adding infoboxes and bookmarking templates).

You can read more and join the discussion. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 14:53, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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