Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Select templates by categories

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Select templates by categories

Problem: When contributors try to add templates to a page in visual editor or wikitext editor, we have to remember the accurate full name or prefix of the template.
Who would benefit: Everyone who want to add templates but don't know the accurate templates names.
Proposed solution: In most of wikis, templates were classified into categories by purpose and functions. We can add a templates browser to visual editor and wikitext editor, allowing contributors to browse and select templates by categories.
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: phab:T55590
Proposer: Steven Sun (talk) 01:11, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This proposal has been selected, and combined with three related ones into a Focus Area known as Template Picker Improvements, for development.

The Focus Area consists of:

Wish #1: Quickly add infobox – an easier way for newer editors to find and insert common templates such as infoboxes.

Wish #2: Quickly add favorite and related templates – a way to show recently used templates and favorited templates for frequent template use.

Wish #3: Select templates by categories – a way to find templates by "type".

Wish #4: Easy access templates – help users configure the Template dialog to show common and favorite templates.

These wishes ranked 5th and 11th in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023, #74 in 2021, and #85 in 2022, respectively.

Please visit the project page for more information.

Thank you Steven Sun and all discussants for proposing, vetting and discussing Select templates by categories.

On behalf of Community Tech –– STei (WMF) (talk) 09:54, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This is phab:T55590. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 16:55, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'll support this if it will work just by using existing categories. Developing a whole new template classification and search feature would be a bad idea until a full-fledged Global templates repository is implemented. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:58, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Support for convenience. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 18:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Categories are good, but customizable lists and aliases I prefer. YFdyh000 (talk) 23:42, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 02:54, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 03:42, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sounds a reasonable proposal OrCer (talk) 10:37, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kpjas (talk) 11:04, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support 1Mmarek (talk) 11:44, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mylenos (talk) 12:16, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support MilkyDefer (talk) 12:42, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nonahg (talk) 08:55, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yanpas (talk) 10:33, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 19:11, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support NaBUru38 (talk) 20:41, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ティルケント (talk) 07:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Strong support, to anything that makes editor life easier. BoldLuis (talk) 14:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szalax (talk) 16:51, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vince789 (talk) 22:04, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jingkaimori (talk) 08:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mahedi Hasan (talk) 11:08, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 12:33, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Danielg123 (talk) 15:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trizek ^{from FR} 19:37, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wikibenchris (talk) 08:51, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support β₁₆ - (talk) 16:06, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support GiFontenelle (talk) 21:41, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support for convenience. Mitzikarl (talk) 23:56, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Llywrch (talk) 07:01, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vikrantkorde (talk) 12:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xhs 唯心而为 12:21, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kku (talk) 07:04, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Joalbertine (talk) 14:59, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Great idea! JN Dela Cruz (talk) 16:40, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support VKG1985 (talk) 17:38, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tratser (talk) 06:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Anomlia (talk) 09:43, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support :JarrahTree (talk) 08:56, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rzuwig^► 11:16, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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) 14:40, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging discussants. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 14:41, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]