A member of my team found a solution: querystring argument redlink=1. It's documented here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_tex...

Larry Silverman Chief Technology Officer TrackAbout, Inc.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Larry Silverman lsilverman@trackabout.com wrote:

I'm looking for a quick or clever method to achieve the following:

Site A (not a wiki) has a "Create page" link to the wiki to create a new page and pre-fill it with a template.

But if the wiki page already exists (does not actually need to be created), what I really want to have happen is to have the user get redirected to the page in Read mode, not Edit mode.

Is there a way to construct a URL such that mediawiki will check if the page already exists, and upon an edit request, redirect instead to the Read page?

Thanks!

Larry