On 11/30/06, Evan Prodromou <evan(a)prodromou.name> wrote:
We use a little trick with MediaWiki:Newarticletext on
Wikitravel to
make a little menu of preload options:
http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=A_page_that_does_not_exist&am…
It's not beautiful, but it does the job pretty darn well, and most of
our new articles have the right template selected now.
It's actually pretty elegant, but I can't see it working well for
something as diverse as Wikipedia. Travel is ultimately a pretty
constrained topic. Wikipedia isn't...the structure of articles tends
to be dependent on the theme more than on the category. For certain
very specific classes of articles (hurricanes, members of certain
groups like WWF wrestlers...) templates effectively do exist (dictated
by WikiProjects) but it would be a pretty esoteric list of templates
to choose from. The idea is good, but it would need a slightly
different implementation...
steve