Ryan Lane:
Is there any way to make a template automatically appear on newly created pages? If so, is there any way to do it by specific namespaces? I have a template that tells users how they should use talk pages, but it would be much more useful if it was added by default. It would also be nice to be able to do something like this when categories are used (like formatting rules for topics under certain categories).
If this is not currently possible, is this something that the wikimedia community would be interested in? If so, what are some ideas on a good way to implement this, and which objects would need to be modified to add this functionality?
A long time ago, empty pages had a standard text inside. It lead to the creation of many pages with exactly that text. Thus, the practice was discontinued.
Maybe a "template on request" button, as part of the edit menu?
Schewek
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