Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:50 UTC
Every template should have its own autogenerated "edit" link, as sections do. This could be implemented via a prefs option that is turned off by default. Editors should not need to know the details of how Mediawiki URL-encodes templates, in order to create or edit them. In particular, it should be possible to transparently change the way these are encoded, without affecting normal editing behavior. Creation is already transparent -- an editor simply enters {{templatename}}, previews or saves the edit, and follows the red link; this enhancement request provides for transparent editing.
For usability an excellent proposal. But: many templates are just for navigation tables, bars etc. I fear there will be no good default place for such a link that doesn't break one or the other template. If such a thing be added it should be possible to manually direct the placement, for example by inserting __EDIT__ at the place where the link should be. For the moment there's a workaround with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ed
MediaWiki 1.4 has a feature to list all templates used by an article on the editscreen. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143 ***
*** Bug 607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think this bug should be marked WONTFIX rather than DUPLICATE, since bug 143 is a different approach to the same issue, it doesn't implement the actual issue at hand. Indeed, there is no reason why both couldn't be implemented were we to want to. This allows any future requests for the same thing to be marked as dupes, referring their submitters to discussion of the issue here.
(note that Brion had previously resolved bug 607 as WONTFIX anyway)
