https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56516
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Bug ID: 56516
Summary: VisualEditor: Do not suggest templates which are not
intended to be used in the content namespaces (e.g.
meta-templates)
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Bugzilla
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
Intention:
I wanted to help a new user to find a template to add a reference to an
article.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. The user was already using Visual Editor. So, suppose we clicked in the link
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random?veaction=edit&uselang=en
2. I instructed the user to open the transclusion interface (More >
Transclusion)
3. Since I knew the name of our citation templates, I suggested the user to
type "citar livro" in the "New template" field
Actual Results:
Visual Editor displayed a list of possible matches, containing the following
templates:
- Citar livro
- Citar livro/doc
- Citar livro/autor
- Citar livro/coautores
- Citar livro/dados
- Citar livro/coautores/doc
- Citar livro/ref
Of these, only the first one is supposed to be used in the articles. The others
are just auxiliary templates (meta-templates), used by the main one. But new
users do not know that, and get confused by this!
Expected Results:
Visual Editor should provide only the options which are useful.
Reproducible: Didn't try
A possible solution for this would be the addition of a new property to the
template data, to allow template authors to document certain templates with
"auxiliary: true". Then Visual Editor could filter its current search results
to show only templates satisfying "auxiliary: false".
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