User story & summary:
As a Wikimedian editing Community Configuration, I want autocomplete to provide helpful suggestions when populating lists, so that I can easily update configuration.
Current UX:
For template-based tasks, such as copyediting, we allow administrators to define the list of templates that are then used to generate the list of tasks. This is available from Special:CommunityConfiguration/GrowthSuggestedEdits and looks like this:
As one can see, the templates are listed without the Template: namespace prefix. This is different from the Infobox templates section, which includes the namespace prefix as well (and often includes non-template pages, such as Lua modules and the like). So far, everything is clear, as the description clearly talks about templates, so the prefix is implied.
However, when I attempt to add a new template, things start to get confusing. After typing in A (as a start of a new template, I see the following suggestions in the autocompletion dialog:
Those are articles starting with the letter A, not templates, which is super confusing. If I type in Template:A, the expected list of pages displays:
Even with this bug, it continues to be possible to add new templates. Either ignoring the autocompletion and adding another unprefixed entry (which will not be on the list) or adding the prefix for the new entry will work, and there should be no breakage. However, the user experience with this is super confusing.
Solution
Add prefixes to the current entries: Since both unprefixed and prefixed entries work, we can also just add the Template: prefix to the (unprefixed) entries we have right now. That way, admins will know the prefix is needed, and will likely type it out when adding a new template. This is a data migration, but since we have the support for that (almost) ready, it should not be a terribly difficult operation.
Acceptance Criteria:
- Migration: Add prefixes to the current entries
- Documentation: Update Community Configuration technical documentation if necessary