On Thu, 2006-30-11 at 01:30 +0000, Rob Church wrote:
On 30/11/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
wikitech-l - is it possible yet to do a preload when someone hits 'edit' on a red link? If so, what do we need for this to be switched on for en:wp? It is likely time for such a thing.
It's possible with the InputBox extension, although I think the preload text is specified in the parameters to the tag itself. There's also the Preloader extension, which allows customisable stuff per-namespace; the preload text is pulled out of the MediaWiki namespace, as I recall.
We use a little trick with MediaWiki:Newarticletext on Wikitravel to make a little menu of preload options:
http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=A_page_that_does_not_exist&...
It's not beautiful, but it does the job pretty darn well, and most of our new articles have the right template selected now.
~Evan