I am setting up a wiki to use for project
documentation. I would like to
be
able to specify page patterns with standard structures, headings and links
that could be automatically loaded into the editor. So, for instance, a
pattern page (I am avoiding the term Template, which seems to be something
else) for a UNIX-style manual section would have pre-written headers for
the
name, synopsis, options, known bugs, etc., along with perhaps some
boilerplate. I would like users to be able to select among a number of
pattern pages (maybe a dozen at most) when they create a new page.
Mark,
I do this on our IT wiki implementation. Its mainly for documentation and to help the
make sure we have a common design for our articles I setup templates. Then I have an
"Add a New Article" page the user can go to. There's a section for each of
the predefined pages the user can add, with a description and such so that they can make
sure they know what its for. In each section is an input box specific to that article
type in which they type the page name and click the "Create Page" button. using
the preload option (ie preload=Template:New_Project), the page is created in edit mode
with all the headings, default text, categories, etc.
Hope this helps,
JT
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