Topic on Talk:Talk pages project/New topic/Flow

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T279578

In the German Wikipedia, we use templates that include a signature, like de:template:Hallo. It's best to use it by opening the full page edit form and put {{subst:Hallo}} at the end of the page because that allows you to write an edit summary. Or you use it by just putting it in a new section (without a title) and saving without an edit summary. The template automaticly adds the title and the signature.

The New Discussion feature allows to set a custom edit summary without needing to edit the whole page. You don't need to enter a title but since you did not write ~~~~ at the end of the page, the tool double-singes the message.

It would be nice if you find a way to solve this without changing the workflow of users using the old way of editing talk pages.

That might be difficult.

Are you using the wikitext "source" mode in the New Discussion tool?

Yes I am

Perhaps the German Wikipedia is better, but at the English Wikipedia, there are about 500 welcome templates, and you have to memorize which template includes the signature, and which one does not. Although it would involve changing the workflow of users using the old way of editing talk pages, I think that standardizing the templates might be the best solution.

In the meantime, if you click "Add topic" on the user's talk page, you get the New discussion tool, and if you click "Add topic" on its "View history" page, it will give you the old way of editing. That might help you while they work on a real solution.