Thread:Andrewds1021/@comment-45310000-20200414034500/@comment-45310000-20200417054815

Just an update, I've implemented a lot more of my link macros, and I started adding skeleton content. The process of correcting a parameter to the link template is actually intuitive and easy in the Visual Editor. I don't like the process for inserting the template invocation and specifying the anonymous parameter in the Visual Editor, as the first part of it is non-intuitive, but it is easy enough, and a Visual Editor user can be trained to do it, and as long as they start with the steps that I have written down. I think it's much more rapid in the Source Editor, once you learn the names.

However, in your experience, do you think typical editors adding content use the VE or the SE?

I'm not sure if this is a UCP-only feature, but do you notice that there are mini-thumbnails on category pages that are of the first image in the article? I designed a system where my pages are going to expect a default article image as the first image, therefore, it will be in this mini-thumbnail. However, do you have any idea how to extract that thumbnail with something given the name of an article? I'm really interested in using that thumbnail automatically in wikitables that have a list of articles of a type.