Board Thread:Darwin/@comment-168424-20131211192834/@comment-118323-20131212205028

I'll be the first to admit that the Template tool inside the VisualEditor isn't up to snuff. MediaWiki templates in general are hard to support in a CMS due to their complexity but that's no exuse — we can (and will) do better.There are a couple of improvements that will be made the the Template tool in the new year, both from the Wikimedia Foundation and from Wikia.

The current tool is a bit cumbersome to navigate around and creates a lot of hoops for users to jump through, even if they just want to modify one single parameter. Adding a new template to an article is even more difficult.

Wikia will look into TemplateData in the new year as one solution to this. Another will be to shape some "best template practices" with experienced contributors like you to provide a great template experience in the VE.

In the meantime, I would greatly appreciate it if you can provide specific examples of how users are failing with the template tool. Are users deleting parameters on accident? Typing in the wrong parameter fields? Inserting templates where they don't belong? This feedback will help us focus on the biggest problems to solve first.