This proposal is a larger suggestion that is out of scope for the Community Tech team. Participants are welcome to vote on it, but please note that regardless of popularity, there is no guarantee this proposal will be implemented. Supporting the idea helps communicate its urgency to the broader movement.
Problem: editing template in Visual Editor Visual Editor allows editors to insert and edit template without wikitext (as the picture shows). However, when I want to insert templates into those textareas, I have to insert wikitext.
Proposed solution: Add a button next to the textarea, which can search and edit templates and generate wikitext into textarea.
Who would benefit: Editors who need to insert template into template in Visual Editor
This is a good solution but it seems like need a lot of work. I have a temporary solution for this problem: Add a button next to the textarea. Click it and pop up Extension:TemplateWizard, then search templates. TemplateWizard will generate wikitext into textarea. Steven Sun (talk) 09:17, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hard, as templates are not designed to use inside VE. However, you have to write in source code by parameters, but it's less helpful than using the source code itself, it can highlight lines and has a linking, template to add them. Thingofme (talk) 07:55, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Steven Sun:This is a good solution but it seems like need a lot of work. True, but we'd love to work on the best possible solution! These days, we're really trying to aim for quality, even if it means things can be a bit trickier. I'll add this phab task above. SWilson (WMF) (talk) 03:27, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'd also just note that this work is likely out of scope for the CommTech team, because it's in a feature that's managed by a different team. It can of course still be voted on in the survey. SWilson (WMF) (talk) 04:01, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 00:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)