Hi all, 

finding, inserting and removing templates becomes now easier on a group of wikis with the new bundle of changes from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team. All other wikis will follow over the course of this year.

In the VisualEditor, 2017 wikitext editor and 2010 WikiEditor, an improved search will help you find relevant templates even if you’re not sure of their exact name. The search will look for matches for your keyword within the entire template name, not just its beginning [1]. In VisualEditor, a back button will be added to the “Insert a template” dialog, making it easier to explore different templates [1]. For the same dialog, a warning will appear if you have entered data and close the form without saving. In the past, all changes were just lost [1]. Last but not least, it will be clearer how to remove a template from a page with the new “delete” button  next to the “edit” button in a template’s context menu of the VisualEditor [2]. 

We plan to deploy these improvements on German, Greek, Malay, Twi, French, Hungarian, Turkish, Hebrew, Finnish Wikipedia and English Wikivoyage & Nauruan Wiktionary on 7th of July. If you have any feedback, please let us know on the projects’ talk pages [3] [4]. 

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting_templates

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_from_a_page_using_the_VisualEditor

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting_templates

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_from_a_page_using_the_VisualEditor

Timur

for the Technical Wishes team