Board Thread:Darwin/@comment-4812386-20131215052916

After enabling the VisualEditor on a wiki to which I contribute, I have realized that Wikia did not currently support TemplateData (see mw:Extension:TemplateData and wp:VisualEditor/TemplateData). TemplateData is an extension that allows data to be included in template pages about these templates; it can be used to tell VisualEditor what parameters are supported by the template and what type of value they contain (which allows VisualEditor to allow auto completion of page names and other useful things) as well as to give a description of the parameters that will be displayed to the user. It is essential for any new user to understand how to use a template and allows both newer and older editors to work a lot faster with templates by not having to constantly search for every parameter on the template documentation pages.

The TemplateData extension is available on all Wikimedia wikis where the VisualEditor extension is also available. I'm curious about whether Wikia will support it, and although a search on Community Central has yielded some results on the forum, I wasn't able to read the results because the search is broken when it comes to forum threads (it gives a link to the board rather than to the relevant thread or comment). 