Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Translation/Visual Editor should automatically map templates when pasting content form other languages/Proposal/en

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  • Problem: When translating a page form one language to another using the visual editor, it is possible to copy (and then adapt) the text. The problem with this is that the text is copied as is, including the templates, which might be references. Since templates are different from wiki to wiki, the user may need to find the equivalent template and adjust the contents based on the target template name and their parameters. There should be an easy way to copy a bare reference from source language to target language.
  • Proposed solution: Provide a way to simply add/copy a reference from source to target language which requires minimal manual intervention.
  • Who would benefit: Anyone translating
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets: task T243150
  • Proposer: Eptalon (talk) 21:19, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]