https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50915
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Bug ID: 50915
Summary: context specific editor for templates?
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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On English Wikipedia, it is stated that some common templates need a context
specific editor.
Examples offered by (and with explanatory text by) User:Clem Rutter
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*[[Template:convert]]
([[Template:frac]]
Those are simple- all we need is to display the parameters so they can be
changed, when focus is lost they just display. For useability you could enter
the the inline-template-editor by double clicking or ctrl-shift -click.
*[[Template:fact]]
*[[Template:cn]]
These two are more complex as editors are there to change the *cn to a
reference- of which the *sfn template is ideal. So here on a double-click, you
need to change a *cn to a *sfn and enter the inline-template-editor to add the
fields which are Name|Year|pp=page-lastpage. For a sfn, on leaving, you need an
alert that offers to take you to the reflist to confirm or edit if that
reference is missing.
*[[Template:sfn]]
Explained above.
*[[Template:efn]]
Simplicity- there is only one parameter. Though an alert may be needed if the
Notes {*{notelist|notes=}*} structure is not in place.
*[[Template:reflist]]-
fiendishly complex from a programming pov but functionally simple- as the
functionality we need is
add a line in wiki code- I C&P common ones from a master list of commonly used
texts in field that I keep in a subpage, or as a textfile on the desktop. An
easy technique to teach when you are training at a museum or library as you can
give your students the file on usbstick
change some data- for instance an isbn number
this can be achieved in a popup wikicode editor- or even gedit, vi, geaney,
wordpad as no parsing is required.
([[Template:infobox]]
it is totally essential to just be able to change the content of a field
visually. It is desirable to add new fields but this is of lower priority nigh
essential, and this wont be achieved until the issue of recursive templates is
resolved. (That rates as essential on my list.)
I leave the list there for a Linus test, so if you could pass this on to your
dev team and ask them to add these to the functional specification. Here is an
example of a sample edit for them to try Swanley it keeps coming up on my
watchlist:
*first three references contain raw urls- probably could do with a *cite
template her- not mentioned above
*fix a *cn
*change item in infobox
*convert acres to hectares needed
All of that could be easily achievable.-- Clem Rutter (talk) 18:20, 5 July 2013
(UTC)
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