Last modified: 2014-10-23 22:26:38 UTC
Intention: I wanted to help a new user to find a template to add a reference to an article. Steps to Reproduce: 1. The user was already using Visual Editor. So, suppose we clicked in the link https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random?veaction=edit&uselang=en 2. I instructed the user to open the transclusion interface (More > Transclusion) 3. Since I knew the name of our citation templates, I suggested the user to type "citar livro" in the "New template" field Actual Results: Visual Editor displayed a list of possible matches, containing the following templates: - Citar livro - Citar livro/doc - Citar livro/autor - Citar livro/coautores - Citar livro/dados - Citar livro/coautores/doc - Citar livro/ref Of these, only the first one is supposed to be used in the articles. The others are just auxiliary templates (meta-templates), used by the main one. But new users do not know that, and get confused by this! Expected Results: Visual Editor should provide only the options which are useful. Reproducible: Didn't try A possible solution for this would be the addition of a new property to the template data, to allow template authors to document certain templates with "auxiliary: true". Then Visual Editor could filter its current search results to show only templates satisfying "auxiliary: false".
