[Wikimedia-l] Let's have the courage to sit down and talk about VisualEditor

[Robert Rohde]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> God no. The whole idea of VE is to make people NOT have to remember
> CSS class names.
>
> If a template is a very common in a project, it should be a button
> with complete GUI in the VE's toolbar in that project. If a template
> is very common in many projects, it should be a button with complete
> GUI in all projects.

Enwiki has 300 templates used more than 100,000 times.  There are 1800
templates used more than 10,000 times.

That's an awful lot of buttons (or an awfully long drop-down).

There may be room for some special purpose buttons, but many tasks are
going to need to be accomplished by generalized tools.

-Robert Rohde