Hi there,
I just set up a mediawiki instance, and I wanted to modify the Special:Search no match behaviour slightly. I'd like to do the following:
1) check the title term for being a particular format, e.g. it is exactly 13 digits (UPC barcode format) 2) if the title is not UPC format proceed as normal 3) if the title is UPC format, automatically create a page with default contents and display that to the user
I think I know enough PHP to check the title term is a particular format, but I am not sure how to create a page with particular default contents. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I'd be very interested in any pointers to tutorials or overviews of the wikimedia source internals.
Ideally I'd like to avoid any coding, but I haven't yet seen a way to set default contents for new pages or adjust search match behaviour by setting parameters - if there is some way to do this I'd love to hear about it..
Many thanks in advance CHEERS> SAM