Extension:TemplateWizard

MediaWiki extensions manual

TemplateWizard Release status: stable
Implementation	User interface
Description	Adds a popup dialog box for adding template code to wikitext.
Author(s)	samwilsontalk
Latest version	0.1.0
Compatibility policy	Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
Database changes	No
License	MIT License
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review README
Help	Help:Extension:TemplateWizard/en
Example	Available on Wikimedia wikis (including this one).
Hooks used EditPage::showEditForm:initial ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars
Quarterly downloads	110 (Ranked 53rd)
Public wikis using	907 (Ranked 293rd)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The TemplateWizard extension adds a popup dialog box for adding template code to wikitext. End-user help for this extension is located at Help:Extension:TemplateWizard .

Installation

• First install the TemplateData and WikiEditor extensions, and optionally CirrusSearch .
• Download and move the extracted TemplateWizard folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/TemplateWizard
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'TemplateWizard' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Usage notes

TemplateWizard provides a visual dialog that helps editors insert templates in a guided manner. In order to do that, it uses the TemplateData information that can be provided with templates. It does work with templates that do not have TemplateData, but provides a much better experience if TemplateData is used. For this reason, it's a good idea to make sure your templates provide TemplateData. For more information on how to add TemplateData to your templates, please see this guide.

If the Extension:CirrusSearch is installed, then the template search form will display improved search results. Without that extension, template search is done as an exact prefix search on the template title.

See also

• Help:Extension:TemplateWizard – end-user help for this extension.
• Extension:TemplateData – the extension that provides the information about templates.
• Extension:WikiEditor – the extension that provides the editing toolbar.