hi, i find it sort of annoying to use templates right now, here's a way to improve them
short version (list of suggestions):
parameter descriptions (to let the editors, who are using the templates, know specifically what each parameter means)
you should be able to edit templates directly in the visual editor (right now the parameters use source editor format)
along with text inputs, there should be other types of parameters (checkbox, dropdown, restricted to numbers, etc)
in depth version of all the suggestions:
currently, when you add a template (including infoboxes) to any page, it shows a template editor listing all the template's parameters, labelled with their IDs (important: it uses the IDs) and you fill those in
this is a problem because:
IDs are meant for the website to know which parameter is which, so they use computer language, which is harder to read for users
you can't change a template's description without changing its ID, if you change the description then it messes up that parameter for all instances of the template that are used across the wiki, since changing the ID makes it not the same parameter
also, what if you want to put stuff like bold text, links, and images inside a template parameter? currently, template parameters only read from source editor format, meaning if you want to put a link in your parameter, you have to type [[Link]] instead of clicking an easily accessible link insert button, which not all users might know how to do
to add on to this, it's annoying to have to click several buttons to edit a template parameter, you should be able to click on the template as if it was regular text in the visual editor and edit from there
i know this would create some problems for some templates so there should be some way to specify which parameters can be edited regularly in the visual editor, and which are locked
i also think it would be nice to include more types of parameter inputs, including checkboxes, dropdowns, and inputs restricted to numbers only, in case you want to use a boolean value instead of a text value or something like that
i don't know if you can control this, like if it's a mediawiki thing and you can't edit that, but if you can then that's very pogger thanks for reading