On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]>wrote:

> I don't quite understand your question [linking templatedata easily to
> Wikidata], sorry. I'm talking about adding fields to TemplateData which
> VisualEditor uses to build a user interface around templates. TemplateData
> is defined on-wiki as a JSON blob.
>

It confused me too at first, since Wikidata is envisioned as a way to
supply  data to infobox templates.  Maybe call it a TemplateSpec.

I was also confused by its [Manage template documentation] button, I
thought at first clicking it would let you edit the /doc subpage of a
template, but it brings up the interface for editing the <templatedata>
block. The block does  replace a lot of hand-written template
documentation; might <templatedata> be internationalized some day?

It's a really cool feature! It saves me opening "Templates used on this
page" to open a template in a new tab just to remind me of its parameters.

-- 
=S Page  Features engineer
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