On 10/12/05, Brian Haws brian@bhaws.com wrote:
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Writing from the peanut gallery, I think this is a great idea, it plants the seed in new editors heads that those components are an intergral part of a well formatted article. Where does it go from here?
1 - Find out if MediaWiki can handle automatically filling a new edit box with boilerplate text, preferably able to restrict the function to the main namespace. 2 - If it can't, find a developer and [whine/beg/give them beer] until MediaWiki can. 3 - Persuade someone it's a good idea to give it a shot. This person is, for the moment, likely to be called Jimbo. 4 - Give it a shot. 5 - Wait for screams of outrage. 6 - Profit!
(Thinking about it, would it also be a good idea to add a {{stub}} tag as default? 95% of them will be, and the stub-sorting people are pretty good at routing those stubs to where they need to go... and at removing the ones that obviously aren't)
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk