What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

On the Create a New Article screen, the tiles to select a template are presented in a certain order (as shown in the screenshot). It takes a moment to find the template I want because the tiles aren't sorted in a logical (to me) order. I would not think to look for "Military" between "Country" and "God/Deity."

It would be quicker and simpler if the templates were sorted alphabetically, so the user doesn't have to scroll through the tiles and hunt for the one they wany.

How does this feature request address the current situation?

Alphabetical sorting by template name would allow the user to search for the right template in O(logN) time instead of O(N) time.

What are other uses for this feature request?

This would create an affordance to help the user learn the template names a little faster.

Follow up

• +100

  by WeStanNikolai
  on 2026-08-18 13:48

  I second Those2Nerds, most-used templates based on your personal history would be amazing, and alphabetical sorting as an option would be cool!

• +300

  by tabbyykatt
  on 2026-08-16 13:40

  Alphabetical order would make sense for everyone and make lesser used templates easier to find. For frequent users, they would gain muscle memory to immediately find their most used types, so it would only be annoying to them to change the layout for the first few weeks.

• +300

  by LittleRaider
  on 2026-08-14 19:21

• +300

  by Ellianette
  on 2026-08-10 05:25

• +300

  by Rashkavar
  on 2026-08-09 09:08

• +300

  by sunnybirdboi
  on 2026-08-09 07:25

  this would make my brain so streamlined, by the time i find the template i need my adhd has all but erased the idea i wanted to make an article for. I make a lot of drafts on the fly so i can link it while i'm writing and not have to track down every published article that mentions that concept later, so having a bit more streamlined article creation would be extremely helpful!

• +300

  by A Revolutionary Velociraptor
  on 2026-08-07 05:04

• +100

  by Elb Tenebris
  on 2026-08-06 12:18

• +100

  by Lonnie makes mayhem
  on 2026-08-05 03:10

• +1

  by FictionFan1995
  on 2026-08-01 12:30

  This could be useful for people, as long as it is an optional sorting method

• +300

  by Dragolithic
  on 2026-07-31 01:20

  This has value

• +300

  by Ratha
  on 2026-07-30 20:21

• +300

  by Scalenex
  on 2026-07-30 07:34

• +300

  by EleKTriiK
  on 2026-07-29 11:56

• +1

  by KarlZone
  on 2026-07-28 00:31

• +100

  by A Goodhearted Mimic
  on 2026-07-27 20:16

• +300

  by ss2020
  on 2026-07-27 06:37

• +100

  by JoellaKay
  on 2026-07-26 17:49

  I agree with Those2Nerds. I can understand putting the most frequently used across the entire user-base at the top. But I do often have to search for the ones I'm interested in. An alphabetical or recently used (per user) option would be wonderful.

• +100

  by Those2Nerds
  on 2026-07-26 16:58

  I believe the current order is most-used site-wide. An alphabetical sort would make common templates like Settlement and Species harder to find than less-used Document and Culture. Having most-used templates at the top makes things easier for most people, most of the time. The Search bar covers everything else.   That said, I'd love to see *optional* sorting methods added, like a-z, most-used in the active World, or most recently used. If you could change your default sort, or WA remembered the last one you used, that'd be real neat.

• +100

  by AhnoeThePenguin
  on 2026-07-26 06:45

• +300

  by Shewstone Publishing
  on 2026-07-25 21:13