Re: [WikiEN-l] Preformatted blank articles? (was Experiment on new pages and GFDL)

On 12/11/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:

Here's the relevant code from February 2005:

                    if ( 'edit' == $action ) {
                            wfProfileOut( $fname );
                            return ''; # was "newarticletext", now

moved above the box) }

Oh yeah, that'd be phase3/includes/Article.php. I just cvs updated, and it's changed:

if ( 'edit' == $action ) { wfProfileOut( $fname );

# If requested, preload some text. $text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);

# We used to put MediaWiki:Newarticletext here if # $text was empty at this point. # This is now shown above the edit box instead. return $text; }

Not sure what getPreloadedText is. Maybe this feature is already in there. Still doesn't seem to check namespace, though.

If not, I could make a patch if the developers want, but it's been a while since I've hacked mediawiki code and it's such a simple change, so it's probably better if they did it themselves.

Anthony