Wikipedia:TemplateData
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What is TemplateData?
[edità a fonte]TemplateData is the standardized description of a template, used by VisualEditor, the 2017 wikitext editor and other tools to improve the template-editing experience for the user. Both VisualEditor and the 2017 wikitext editor include a wizard to edit templates, but for the wizard to be most useful, it needs to present specific information to the user about each template, such as a short description of the template's purpose and its parameters. This information is codified formally (by any wiki editor) using TemplateData.
Editing without TemplateData
[edità a fonte]Without TemplateData, each parameter needs to be added manually when inserting a new template.
No information is provided about what the value of the parameter should be.
Editing with TemplateData
[edità a fonte]With TemplateData, a list of supported parameters (and their description) is provided for the template.
TemplateData provides context for each parameter, and makes it much easier for users to modify templates.
Adding TemplateData
[edità a fonte]Anyone can help by adding TemplateData to templates (particularly high-profile ones, such as infoboxes) so that they are easier to edit in VisualEditor. The following is a minimal example, placed on a template's documentation page:
<templatedata>{
"description": "insert description here",
"params": {
"first parameter": {
"label": "x",
"description": "x",
"type": "string",
"default": "default value",
"required": false
}
}
}</templatedata>
You can also add or edit TemplateData using a GUI, by pressing the following button which appears at the top of the edit page:
The TemplateData tutorial explains in detail how to add TemplateData information to a template.
See also
[edità a fonte]- Wikipedia:VisualEditor/TemplateData/List A list of all pages with TemplateData