Another "Ive been meaning to do this for months" message. Jim Wilson and I made an extension system we call PagesOnDemand a while ago.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PagesOnDemand

We wanted an easy way to force certain pages to use defined templates based on the structure of the page title. With PagesOnDemand, pages are created from templates when users follow links if the link matches a string comparison that tells the PagesOnDemand system that the desired page is of a desired type. For example, pages with titles that match the regular expression '/^PMID:\d+$/' are recognized by PagesOnDemand.php+PMID_OnDemand.php as being about articles in the scientific literature. When the system recognizes this pattern, it creates a page based on a template for wiki articles about the scientific literature and then forwards the user to the newly created page, instead of to an edit page. PagesOnDemand effectively makes some "red links" behave like "blue links".

I call it an extension system since it's an extension that supports the creation of other extension that do the actual work.

Major thanks to Jim W. for helping with this based on my original half-baked idea. The good aspects of the code are all his; I'll take credit for the ugly bits. ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054