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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