For my users, I just added another button on the edit toolbar, which adds a skeleton of an article to the editbox, so they can then flesh it out.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_add_more_buttons_on_the_ed...

On the MediaWiki:Common.js page, I added:

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mwCustomEditButtons.push( { "imageFile": "/skeleton-22x22.png", "speedTip": "Insert article skeleton", "tagOpen": "'''KEYWORDS:''' \n\n'''APPS INVOLVED:''' \n\n'''MODULES:''' \n\n'''CLIENT REFS:''' \n\n'''JOB# REFS:''' \n\n'''DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT:''' \n\n----\n\n", "tagClose": "", "sampleText": "" } );

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Maybe not the most elegant solution, but they like it as a time-saver. :)

I have another button that inputs a pipe character "|" as part of its text, which I had to replace with the character code "\u007c", so beware of that if you need special characters.

Hope that helps, James

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Meyer Sent: Monday, 23 August 2010 9:49 AM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Templating text

I'm not quite sure how to do this. I'd like to write a section of text and be able to tag it so I can insert it as is in any other area of my wiki. Does this require an extension?

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