Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Make insertable markup customizable

Community Wishlist Survey/Proposal header

• Problem: Template:LangSwitch
• Who would benefit: Everyone
• Proposed solution: Template:LangSwitch
• Phabricator tickets:
• Proposer: Tubamirum (talk) 20:36, 17 November 2020 (UTC) (French Wiki)

Discussion

• You should discuss with sysops to edit w:fr:mediawiki:Edittools for edit tools, or consider install w:en:MediaWiki:Gadget-charinsert-core.js on your wiki. Patsagorn Y. (Talk) 01:34, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, my bad. I support this if you mean something like "own charinsert" Patsagorn Y. (Talk) 01:39, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping I've written such script for Ukrainian wikipedia (uk:MediaWiki:Gadget-ImprovedEditTools.js), it has edit dialog and serializes your insertions to this format: uk:User:AS/AStools.js. The only drawback is that it has to use your subpage as data storage, because Mediawiki devs can't add local metadata for years. I think it would make sense to have native solution with proper backend storage and plugins support. AS (talk) 17:06, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping your tool is very intresting. Another option could be saving them on the device via mw.store ValeJappo【〒】 18:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Nah, localStorage is not persistent enough for some use cases. AS (talk) 20:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

This and Tool for easy user buttons should probably be merged. They're essentially same task, the difference is only which controls on page you want to bind with your insertion functions. AS (talk) 20:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Try Using AutoHotKey macros to make typing – and life – easier (other, similar, tools are available). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

This is basically the same as "Tool for easy user buttons" (below), just without the button. Both are fine. Either one needs to happen yesterday. Don't particularly care which. --Joalbertine (talk) 16:25, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting

• Template:Support That would definitely be far more convenient for editors to be able to just paste a long string of code than write all that code just to get the same effect. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 18:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support AS (talk) 20:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Kisnaak (talk) 21:24, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 04:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support No such user (talk) 09:10, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support --Timeshifter (talk) 08:37, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support --Green fr (talk) 18:41, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support very important; there are workarounds for some parts of this, but a built in feature would be much better DGG (talk) 01:24, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Wedhro (talk) 20:06, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Gufosowa (talk) 10:50, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Krzysiek 123456789 (talk) 13:17, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support I actually like this version better than the one way up above, to allow customizable buttons (since this version doesn't require any icons).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  06:40, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 13:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support GiFontenelle (talk) 21:23, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Lt2818 (talk) 14:45, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Joalbertine (talk) 16:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support Shenme (talk) 01:18, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
• Template:Support David1010 (talk) 13:10, 21 December 2020 (UTC)