Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project

Useful and Undocumented (?) feature of reply tool / add topic tool when in visual mode

It seems that it is perfectly possible to add templates using the standard visualmode interface in the reply tool by typing two opening braces ( {{ ), which brings up the template window. It's unclear to me why this is only possible via this keyboard shortcut at present, and not (as far as I can see unless I'm missing it) from the interface itself, nevertheless, it is still a useful feature, so perhaps it should be included in this help page (and/or on Help:Talk pages § Reply tool) Tomatoswoop (talk) 19:04, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

It is a bit of a secret feature indeed. Note that it only works in the "Add topic" tool, and not in the "Reply" tool (because many templates don't work when indented with : in wikitext). Matma Rex talk 20:26, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

How to revise old user talk page editnotice to be compatible with REPLYTOOL?

I'm using {{REVISIONUSER}}. Is there a substitute that works with REPLYTOOL? - Hipal (talk) 17:48, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Can you say more about what you're using it for, and in what manner is it not compatible with the reply tool? Matma Rex talk 11:59, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

I was notified about it in this discussion:User_talk:Hipal#Regarding_Template:Ref_expand.

Try to edit my talk page and see what you get. --Hipal (talk) 19:17, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Hmm, I see "Welcome, , to the Wikipedia user discussion page for Hipal." (testing here: ), so I guess that's the problem. However, I see the exact same text with discussion tools disabled (testing here: ), so the problem probably lies somewhere else. Has this magic word ever worked to show the username of the person viewing the page? mw:Help:Magic words doesn't mention that. Matma Rex talk 20:57, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

That's what I was wondering. I put that editnotice together a very long time ago, copying from who-knows-what. I'll poke around, but any suggestions would be welcome. --Hipal (talk) 22:13, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Reply_Tool_incompatible_with_certain_templates - ideas?

Apropos Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project/Archive 3#new Reply Tool incompatible with certain templates

Tragic. There's really no way to make these work? I would think there would be some way to escape in a newline or virtual ^H, or modify the table tool to see/accept :|}?

Any include tools that expand text only in the context of Reply Tool?

-- RememberOrwell (talk) 04:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Outdent template for reply tool

Just a suggestion: It would be awesome to have an outdent template for the reply tool. As it stands, if I reply on a thread, I can't add a full outdent (make my reply go all the way to the left) without making a second edit in Source mode. OrdinaryOtter (talk) 05:42, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Great work with the Reply tool and using custom edit summaries

As an editor who's largely been away since ten years about the happenings here, I found this Reply tool as one of the best and biggest improvements. Great work to the people who made it. In fact, I just came here to say that and if it's possible to be using custom edit summaries--only to find out, yes, you can by clicking "advanced". Ugog Nizdast (talk) 15:09, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Just did it first time with this reply! Ugog Nizdast (talk) 15:10, 5 June 2026 (UTC)