[Mediawiki-l] Modifying MediaWiki

[Rowan Collins]

On 04/08/05, Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3 at msstate.edu> wrote:
> There are a couple things I'd like to be able to do with MediaWiki, but I'm not
> sure how to accomplish them (or even if they can be accomplished):

Interestingly, you're not the first to request either of these
features, so if you can come up with a good implementation, please
publicise it. :) There are existing discussions on the MediaWiki bug
tracker which cover some of the issues involved in each case:
 
> 1. I'd like to programmatically change the displayed page title to something
> other than the title stored in the database. That is, if a user navigates to
> index.php?title=foo, the resulting page will be titled "bar" (in the <h1> at
> the top of the page).

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496

> 2. I'd like to pre-populate the edit box for all empty pages with a certain
> template text. That is, if a user tries to create a new page, the resulting
> edit box will already be filled with some text (supplied by me).

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045

HTH
-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]