So, right now, when we have a broken link in a page, it gets rendered like this:
<a class="new" href="index.php?title=New_page&action=edit"> New page </a>
The problem here is that we're not differentiating between creating a new page and editing an existing page. It's uncommon but not impossible that someone creates [[New page]] while I'm looking at this link, and when I click it to start a new page, there's text in the textarea.
IWBNI we had a *different* action for creating new pages than for editing existing pages.
<a class="new" href="index.php?title=New_page&action=new"> New page </a>
On getting action new, we could do things like:
* Show the page, if it's been created since the person fetched the referring page. * Show some set of instructions on how (or why) to start a new page, and give some other possibilities (I think the [[meta:new page page]] discusses this). * Do some cool functionality, like _new_page_templates_ (create new pages with some existing format already filled in).
But we can't do anything interesting with new pages unless we know they're new pages. So, I'd like to change action=edit to action=new for broken links.
Sound OK?
~ESP
Evan Prodromou wrote:
It's uncommon but not impossible that someone creates [[New page]] while I'm looking at this link, and when I click it to start a new page, there's text in the textarea.
Is that really so much of a problem? I would think it happens rarely enough that no newbie will probably ever see this more than once, and experienced users will already know what was going on.
Timwi
Hi there,
is there any tutorial on how to adapt the layout of the whole page? What files do I have to adapt? Where can I add another layout, so that one can choose it in the private preferences menu?
Any ideas or references?
Sincerely Charly
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: wikitech-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l- bounces@Wikipedia.org] Im Auftrag von Timwi Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 00:47 An: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Re: action=new
Evan Prodromou wrote:
It's uncommon but not impossible that someone creates [[New page]] while I'm looking at this link, and when I click it to start a new page, there's text in the textarea.
Is that really so much of a problem? I would think it happens rarely enough that no newbie will probably ever see this more than once, and experienced users will already know what was going on.
Timwi
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On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:29 +0200, Karlheinz Toni wrote:
Hi there,
is there any tutorial on how to adapt the layout of the whole page? What files do I have to adapt? Where can I add another layout, so that one can choose it in the private preferences menu?
Any ideas or references?
See http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_styles and http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles. You can get a blank slate for your own skin by choosing 'MySkin' in the prefs. All css is pulled from User:you/myskin.css in that case.
Please start a new thread if the mail isn't really a reply to the action=new one.
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 00:46, Timwi wrote:
Evan Prodromou wrote:
It's uncommon but not impossible that someone creates [[New page]] while I'm looking at this link, and when I click it to start a new page, there's text in the textarea.
Is that really so much of a problem? I would think it happens rarely enough that no newbie will probably ever see this more than once, and experienced users will already know what was going on.
You're right, this happens quite rarely, but other Evan's suggestions do sound exciting:
* Show some set of instructions on how (or why) to start a new page, and give some other possibilities (I think the [[meta:new page page]] discusses this). * Do some cool functionality, like _new_page_templates_ (create new pages with some existing format already filled in).
The idea is, with action=new, it is easy to make creating a new page different than editing an existing one.
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