I have been looking for an easy way for my wiki users to create new pages based on a standard skeleton framework. I envision them clicking a "new page" or similarly-named button, that takes them to a web form with preset fields. They fill out the fields, and then click "save" and the new page is created. (For later editing of the page, I think they'll be fine with the normal MediaWiki methods. It's just creation of standard pages that's tough.)
MoinMoin has a feature like this, if anyone's familiar with their new page creation: First you choose from a set of standard page templates listed on a page (not like MediaWiki templates, but like an OpenOffice Writer template). Click its radio button, press "continue," and then you're taken to the form with the appropriate fields for that pre-designed template. Fill out the necessary fields, and then create the new page.
Does anyone know of a similar way to do this in MediaWiki?
Thanks, Ben
someone could make an extension that lets the user choose one of the available mw templates and then generates a form with one field to each of the template variables. And then, the article would be created with the selected template and parameters as the initial content.
Just a visual way of using templates to start a page.
On 06/07/06, Felipe Sanches felipe.sanches@gmail.com wrote:
someone could make an extension that lets the user choose one of the available mw templates and then generates a form with one field to each of the template variables. And then, the article would be created with the selected template and parameters as the initial content.
There's something similar, but not quite as described; see the Preloader extension. You can provide the name of a page used as pre-filled text for each namespace, so when creating a new page in the main namespace, for instance, the contents of a page can be inserted into the edit form and hacked about.
This doesn't, at present
* allow selecting between different templates, though it might be feasible to add * provide nice little forms, although that could also be arranged, perhaps
Rob Church
And what about Inputbox? (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox)
I can't tell if it does what I want, or would need some serious modification...
-Ben
On Thursday, July 06, 2006, at 10:49AM, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/07/06, Felipe Sanches felipe.sanches@gmail.com wrote:
someone could make an extension that lets the user choose one of the available mw templates and then generates a form with one field to each of the template variables. And then, the article would be created with the selected template and parameters as the initial content.
There's something similar, but not quite as described; see the Preloader extension. You can provide the name of a page used as pre-filled text for each namespace, so when creating a new page in the main namespace, for instance, the contents of a page can be inserted into the edit form and hacked about.
This doesn't, at present
- allow selecting between different templates, though it might be
feasible to add
- provide nice little forms, although that could also be arranged, perhaps
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