I'm also new to MediaWiki and I also searched for this feature. I was used to it in MoinMoin.

If anyone can point out how to do it, I'd appreciate.

But I think there is no built-in support for this.

I think it can be done by modifying the inputbox extension, so it would list in a combo box the pages of a specified category of page models, and pass the selected page's contents as default text to the new page.

2006/11/9, Mark Proudman mfproudman@gmail.com:

This is a newbie question, but I have spent considerable time reading the various Wiki help pages and don't see anything similar.

I am setting up a wiki to use for project documentation. I would like to be able to specify page patterns with standard structures, headings and links that could be automatically loaded into the editor. So, for instance, a pattern page (I am avoiding the term Template, which seems to be something else) for a UNIX-style manual section would have pre-written headers for the name, synopsis, options, known bugs, etc., along with perhaps some boilerplate. I would like users to be able to select among a number of pattern pages (maybe a dozen at most) when they create a new page.

Has anybody done something like that? The idea is so obvious that I almost expect to be told to RTDM.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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