On 10 Mar 2005, at 00:54, Aviram Jenik wrote:
I would like to force (or at least make it the default
behavior) for
new pages
to appear in a certain layout. Basically, the idea is that instead of
filling
out an empty page... they would only have to 'fill in the blanks'.
I think I know what Brion will say about this... :-)
If you imagine a continuum between rigid structure on the right, and
totally free-form on the left, then Wikis in general fall very much to
the left.
It isn't that you absolutely could not do such a thing, but it does run
counter to the Wiki Way, which is anarchic and non-authoritarian.
An easier path than having fill-in fields would be to have some
pre-installed text. I'm just guessing, but you might be able to do that
in Article.php in the constructor. That way, your users would not have
to face "blank page shock" and you could "suggest" a typical article
layout. A tidy implementation that they might consider rolling in might
include an instantiation hook that could would cause a call to an
extension for providing new page text.
Is something like this possible?
Just because something is possible, doesn't mean it's a good idea!
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