Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-4146635-20131210032320/@comment-118323-20131216220225

Jessie1010 wrote: How exactly does wikia expect users to know the parameters of the template? [...] Why aren't the parameters preset when you add the template?

We don't expect users to know the parameters. This is an obvious shortcoming of the VisualEditor's template tool. We'll be changing this in the near future.