templates seem to be a way to wrap up a lot of the things into one, a fixed group of cc's, an owner, tags, etc. It seems like a useful feature, I'm unsure why its not not documented.

I keep thinking that this is not a relevant problem in real use of Phabricator. Any problem with declining this task?

I'm ok with using the workaround for now.

[me looks at HTML source code....] Yup, we can: Add these snippets (with a particular variable) to the end of the URL:

• &priority=[100, 90, 80, 50, 25, 10]
• &title=[TITLE]
• &projects=[PROJECTS]

e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=Beta-Feature&title=Hovercards:&priority=10

I think these 2 variables should also work, but I can't figure out how... (neither "@Qgil" nor "Qgil" nor "6" work)

• &assigned_to=[NAME]
• &cc=[NAME]

In T1043#964648, @Quiddity wrote:

• &assigned_to=[NAME]
• &cc=[NAME]

I think these are PHID which you would have to pre-fetch from the api. not great but I believe that's the deal.

see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_a_task

Is all of the known syntax now on the wiki?

In T1043#964650, @chasemp wrote:

In T1043#964648, @Quiddity wrote:

• &assigned_to=[NAME]
• &cc=[NAME]

I think these are PHID which you would have to pre-fetch from the api. not great but I believe that's the deal.

see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_a_task

Ah, from that wiki documentation, the "assigned_to=" is actually "assign=" (which works)
I'm still not sure how to add a CC though?

In T1043#964663, @Jaredzimmerman-WMF wrote:

Is all of the known syntax now on the wiki?

I've added "priority=" to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Passing_certain_values_in_the_task_creation_URL and fixed the example URL.