Extension:Inputbox (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox) has the ability to
preload a newly created page with content from a template or another page. Check out the
"preload=" feature.
Also, check out
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text
which is a general discussion of how pages can be created with preloaded text. But I like
the Inputbox since it is simple and I can create a page with other text, such as an
explanation of what to do after the pages is created, that I steer users who want to
create a page to and have the input box there for the user to create the page with the
preloaded text.
-Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Betts [mailto:matthew.betts@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de]
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:02 PM
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] automatic template use
Dear all,
Can anyone tell me a way to ensure that a template is included in all pages
of a particular namespace? I'd like to use our mediawiki to allow people to
annotate some things in a biology project and want to use a template to
guide what information should be given, and the wiki URLs will be generated
automatically by an external program. I could generate the pages in advance
from a perl script or similar but I thought there might be a better way,
especially since I won't always know in advance what the page names should
be.
Thanks,
Matthew
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Matthew Betts PhD, Russell Group
CellNetworks, BioQuant, University of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
mailto:matthew.betts@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
phone:+49 6221 54 513 61
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