[Mediawiki-l] default page values?

[Rob Church]

Instinct tells me it's an extension, but I don't know which.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_extensions might.


Rob Church

On 28/10/05, Joshua Yeidel <yeidel at wsu.edu> wrote:
> This doesn't appear to work in our 1.4.7 installation.  Is this 1.5 only?
>
> -- Joshua
>
>
>
> On 10/28/05 11:56 AM, "SJ" <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Luis, if you send editors to a url like
> > "action=edit&preload=OutlineTemplate&title=NewPage&editintro=EditGuide"
> >
> > They will see the wikitext contents of OutlineTemplate when they start to edit
> > (with EditGuide rendered above the textearea).
> >
> > You can see this in action here:
> >     http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Submit_a_story
> >
> > --SJ
> >
> > On 10/28/05, Luis Villa <luis at cyber.law.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >> Hi, all-
> >>
> >> Is there a way to make new pages open with specific content? Basically,
> >> I'd like new pages on a wiki (perhaps only with a specific namespace,
> >> but that's not a requirement) to open with a specific outline/section
> >> format- something like:
> >>
> >> =foo=
> >> Please fill in these sections as appropriate.
> >> =bar=
> >> ==baz==
> >> ==gee==
> >> =lart=
> >>
> >> etc.- basically to encourage (but not require) that newbie users follow
> >> a specific format when creating a new page. Is there any way to do this
> >> in mediawiki, short of hardcoding it somewhere?
> >>
> >> Luis
> >>
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