Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Bedre støtte til skjemaer

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Thank you @EdoAug for this wish. Please forgive me, as I am translating my comment via Google Translate. It sounds like your request is to build an interface that leverages templates to create "forms." Are there any examples or proxies on Wiki that resemble such a use case, or "bad" examples where there are too many parameters and comments? Please feel free to share screenshots to illustrate your idea.

Takk @EdoAug for dette ønsket. Tilgi meg, siden jeg oversetter kommentaren min via Google Translate. Det høres ut som om forespørselen din er å bygge et grensesnitt som utnytter maler for å lage "skjemaer". Finnes det noen eksempler eller proxyer på Wiki som ligner et slikt brukstilfelle, eller "dårlige" eksempler der det er for mange parametere og kommentarer? Del gjerne skjermbilder for å illustrere ideen din. JWheeler-WMF (talk) 18:54, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Hiya, JWheeler-WMF! Thanks for your question! I can reply in English, as it is easier to communicate directly. I am appending a small gallery of screenshots from various Wikipedia projects and Wikidata.

Russian Wikipedia, user renaming request template as form

Wikidata, deletion request template as form

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, a local suggestion for front page material nominations template as form

English Wikipedia, a submission form for "Did you know", a column on the first page

As you can see from the four screenshots, there are various ways of creating "forms" on the wikis through preloading a template. The Norwegian suggestion is by me, so I don't feel to bad saying that it's messy and kind of intimidating, with all its inline comments. Some of these parameters have various data types, including set values (dropdown menu?), some of these are mandatory, some are not, some require free form strings, one a date, and I scrapped a parameter that was yes/no boolean.

The English Wikipedia "Did you know" form is impressive, but I have no idea how one would recreate it elsewhere. It also doesn't really match the Wikimedia visual style 100%.

While I don't want to suggest a solution (as per the Community Wishlist guidelines), there are, as mentioned, various forms within MediaWiki already, including TemplateData (link to Commons), the gallery editing interface, and the submission form for wishes. EdoAug (talk) 19:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! This is really helpful. It seems that you're sensing a pattern of workflows where users are asked to enter some form of data through a template, and yet the inputs are still not very user friendly.

Regarding the deletion use case, have you seen Adiutor? It has a UI for creating a speedy deletion, and I'm curious if it follows a pattern you're interested in. JWheeler-WMF (talk) 19:49, 22 July 2024 (UTC)