https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=878
--- Comment #20 from Timeshifter <[email protected]> --- Until I read this thread awhile back I did not know one could get a list of templates used in a section. By any means. So by reading this thread I learned I could click preview to get that list. Funny thing is that I forgot this trick until just now when I read this thread again - after getting an email about this thread being modified. :) So maybe one thing that could be done to let people know is to add a link called "Show templates in this section". Add it to the top or bottom of the edit window. At least then I would not forget. It could be another preview link, or it could actually do the same thing as a preview but only show the list of templates. Or just the edit window and the list of templates. Preview would be removed or made invisible. I am one of the top 2500 editors (by edit total) on Wikipedia, and for years I did not know I could use the "Page information" link in the toolbox to get a list of templates used on the whole page. I always clicked the top edit button on a page to get to templates. Anything that helps editors do things faster is important nowadays. Since there are more articles and less editors. The other alternative "parsing the text on edit" would slow down the opening a section for editing, I believe. Never a good idea. Now that I think about it why not avoid showing a list of templates at anytime, even for a whole page, except when one specifically clicks a link: *"Show templates in this section". *"Show templates in this page". That would speed up opening pages and sections for editing. That could especially help the visual editor open a page faster for editing. Its long time to open pages with lots of templates and/or references for editing is its fundamental flaw. Especially since VE does not have true section editing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
