On 28 April 2014 01:55, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Yeah, there's no neat way in TemplateData to tie parameters to Wikidata items or properties, which might be a useful improvement. Something to think about. > 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, Yeah; we could improve this language to make it more obvious. OTOH there's likely to be some big opportunities available when the outcome of the "associated namespaces<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces>" RfC lands, letting us have a "Data" and "Documentation" tab for each template – an improvement now should mesh with that outcome. > 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? > The data definition JSON blob supports multiple languages per value for the appropriate values, but not the GUI editor yet – that's the next thing we want to add to it. > 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. > Thanks. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
