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Edit a Template Wikimedia page using Visual Editor

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81.200.189.7 (talkcontribs)

For example Template:Editorial. Is there is a way to do it? How?

I know this sounds weird but it would be useful on my site.

Thanks.

AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)
81.200.189.7 (talkcontribs)

Thank you I know about that, but I want to give the ability to beginners users to edit template pages using the VisualEditor text editor. I know that we can add some attribute and some content using the Template menu but that is not very user friendly.

AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Could you explain which functionality you are exactly missing?

81.200.189.7 (talkcontribs)
81.200.189.7 (talkcontribs)

OK I have found a way: I create a normal page and then move it as a template page. Sorry for being unclear all along!

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

You can define which namespaces have access to VisualEditor, and I believe that you can even make this work for the Template: namespace. However, I encourage you to think carefully about this. If your typical templates look anything like the English Wikipedia's, then it's likely that you would regret attempting visual editing there.

The new Beta Feature (VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode) works in all namespaces. If you create an account here, you can opt into the Beta Feature in your preferences and see what that looks like.

81.200.189.7 (talkcontribs)

Thanks Whatamidoing for your answer. I agree with you about using Visual Editor carefully, I think that we will create our own template and have our own wiki behavior. I will take a look to that Beta you are talking. :)

81.200.189.7 (talkcontribs)

Is there is a way to get this feature in a private wiki?

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

As I said above, if you control the wiki, then you can define which namespaces have access to visual editing.

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