Last modified: 2014-10-27 20:30:07 UTC
In view mode, [[Template:Top icon]] places the featured star or good article at the top right hand corner. After loading a FA or GA or English Wikipedia, the featured star or good article icon appears where the template is, which is often down the bottom. This is perfectly acceptable except for the 'where did it go?' feeling, but maybe a plugin could come up with a better UI design for topicons, geocoords, etc. Also templates without any real estate (like {{Use dmy dates}} and {{Use Australian English}}) 'disappear' entirely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Brought_Me_Here?veaction=edit
The 'templates without any real estate' problem is raised here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Time_for_an_essay I'm not sure if a separate bug has been raised, or even should be. The top icons and templates without any real estate all need a special UI, probably under 'page settings'.
It is easy to delete these hidden templates without noticing. e.g. delete the '↵' on Angels Brought Me Here.
'templates without any real estate' has been raised already as bug 51322 (meta templates).
The meta-templates bug 51322 has been marked as fixed, but the issue of top icons is still ongoing.
Bug 51322 fixed issues that were 'solely metadata', but these actually do produce elements, the problems that remain for these elements are: 1: incorrectly positioned 2: their template edit button, when selected is visually placed far from the content, making it difficult to find. bug 50854 3: if they were correctly positioned, they are 'decoupled' from their anchor point which is a problem with templates producing floating content as well. bug 50907
This is a rather more general problem with the Vector skin (there's desire to have flag icons from the content, but no ability other than a hack that's unsupportable in VisualEditor).
Now that bug 23796 is fixed, we "just" need to work out a way to let the user set/unset these (bug 72199) and then trap clicks on this area to open the meta dialog, I think?
