Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-15636815-20140122132804/@comment-15636815-20140125091850

I have no idea how it works. I've never seen it in action, and MediaWiki doesn't have any screenshots. Katat0nyx installed the new VisualEditor here once, but nothing worked because none of the templates had TemplateData.

I've verified, double-checked, and triple-checked the formatting, and it's all pretty straightforward, anyway, so I'm confident that the stuff above will work. I just can't tell you anything about HOW it will work.

- S (for Special Offer) - V (for Vintage Offer) -U (for Under Level 90 Special Offer) Unfortunately, Wikitext is expressly forbidden in TemplateData. Users can enter Wikitext in response to the prompts (for example, a link or sub-template), but the prompts themselves must be plain text only. Katat0nyx once asked me to redo the Style Guide. I was concentrating on the Extensions page for a while, so I put off the Style Guide. Extensions seems to be in back-burner mode right now, though, so perhaps I could buckle down this next week and knock out the Style Guide. If we can find a way to encourage people to read it, that COULD reduce the amount of Description text we need in the TemplateData. Right now, most people here don't even know the Style Guide exists.
 * Personally, I prefer S, V, U... but then again, I know what all this stuff means, and I'm nearly obsessed with shortcuts. ;-) ... What's most important is that everything is clear to new editors. If we can do that with S.V, U, then cool. If not, then we need to find a different way. It would be really cool if we could do something like this:
 * I'm not sure what you mean by "U-90 syntax". We definitely need to help editors understand what U-90 is and when to use it.
 * Dates - I thought we agreed on 2014 Jan 24. Either way, whatever it is, I agree with you that we should specify the preferred format.
 * Sets - We probably should specify how and when to use "(Set)" in a set name. There's already so much text in the Descriptions, though. At some point, we have to strike a balance between providing enough information that we don't have to re-edit the things that new editors do, and overloading people with so much information that we drive them away.