Thread:Talk:New Page Triage/Twinkle/reply (5)

This isn't a problem  with  Twinkle, it's a problem  of people who  write new templates and ask  the developer to  to  add them  to  Twinkle. I've already mentioned somewhere that  I  now actually find it  quicker to  type custom messages or paste ones I  made myself rather than hunt  through  the list  at  Twinkle.

A very quick remedy - which  I  think  the Twinkle developer could be asked to  do -   would be to  provide mouseover tooltips previews of the templates. They went  halfway with  the new Twinkle interface by  offering  a 'preview' button, but  that's not  quite the same as shortcut for choosing  the template,  it's more useful  for previewing  any  manually  typed additions to  the template before it's finally posted.

Another quick solution would be to  offer a feature in  Twinkle prefs for users to  customise their Twinkle lists.

Steve is currently running  experiments with  templates, including  some stats about  their use, but  I  feel  again  that  this is an issue that  should also take note of empirical  reports; for example, I'm  an extremely   busy  editor and use Twinkle a lot, but  there are a great many uw that  I have never had occasion  to  use. I might  go  through  them all,  and make a list  of the ones I  believe to  be superfluous and/or redundant at  least  to to  Twinkle, andbpost  the list  here for discussion.