G'day Andrew,
On 09/12/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
While this would just be wikitext, and any experienced Wikipedia regular could of course format an article how they liked, new editors would be presented clearly with what we expect from a new article.
With this in place, I think we could even allow anons to create articles again on en:. They certainly wouldn't just put "so what do you want me to type?"
Another benefit: stick in [[Category:New articles]] as prefilled text at the bottom. We end up with a cleanup category, where articles will go until someone hacks them about a bit and (eg) categorises them. A nice corrolary to Newpages, in that you can see an experienced editor *hasn't* been at the page yet...
It's worth a shot.
Good ideas all-around. So ... who wants to write it?