Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Currently, in the template adding dialog there is just one search box and a lot of empty space.

A user needs to know the name of the template to insert.

A template could be suggested in a more proactive way. One idea can be to simply show the currently available templates by category, starting from the top and let the user drill down (in enwiki the top is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_templates ; the top category should probably be defined in a wg variable). This will require each project to maintain their templates neatly categorized, but this should be done anyway ;)

Another possibility is to let the projects define lists of commonly used templates, or to show a list of the most frequently transcluded ones.

[And see also the trivial bug 69692.]