Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Quickly add favorite and related templates/Proposal
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- Problem: It can be very difficult to find a template if you don't exactly remember its name
- Proposed solution: 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.
- Who would benefit: 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.
- More comments: 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.
- Phabricator tickets:
- Favorite: task T367428
- Recent: VisualEditor, task T55590; TemplateWizard, task T347370
- Proposer: —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:11, 5 February 2023 (UTC)