It may not be what you want either, but in SplitCategoryPage.php we should have a place where we fake this inside the regular Category namespace. The syntax becomes Category:PseudoNamespace:PageTitle. An article then inserts into the page table as Pseudonamespace:PageTitle, and the code finds the prefix via a regex and change the tab from "Category" to Pseudonamespace, and changes the text for the subcategory and article counts.

Examples:

http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Txn_unit:lacZYA

http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Complex:aspartate_kinase_I

HOWEVER...Note that these are redirects to pages that still have the Category: prefix. It would be really nice to be able to avoid having to make the redirects as separate pages.

Jim

On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Sylvain Machefert wrote:

Merci but that's not what I want. Boilerplate, as I understand write a predefine content in the textbox when editing a new page.

I want the same behaviour than categories : go to Category:Portnawak (a name that doesn't exist) in your wiki, you don't see the edit form, but you see the list of subcategories and articles, if there are. In my namespace I want to replace this content (titles, lists of subcaterogies/pages) by another one (title + call to an extension).

2008/3/17, Dr JFBurté burtejf@orange.fr:

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salut http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Boilerplate ? @+

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Hello,

I know how to add a new namespace, that's OK. But I'd like this namespace behave like categories : if I call MyNamespace:Foobar, if this page doesn't exist, I'd like to display an automatically generated content, for instance <my_extension>blabla</my_extension>

I don't want to display a list of articles as if it were a category, I'd like to know the way to generate automatic content for non- existing (or all) pages in this namespace.

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