[Mediawiki-l] Page Templates

[Wolfgang Zsalcsik]

Hi,

I needed to do soemthing very similar on my wiki:

I was in need of a few of such standard pages, which shall have an initial
unified structure (im my case: project page, user page, group page, 
talk page of templates, ...) but should allow to develop in a non-unified
way (as you say: some sections will only add in specific projects,
each user will put individual things onto its initial unified user-page, ...)

So my solution was as follows:

I created all "Standard pages" as Examples in the Meta-namespace (namespace 4)
In my case: 
    WikiBASE:Example - User Homepage 
    WikiBASE:Example - Template - Takl Page
    and so on ...
All these pages where added into the category Category:Examples by adding 
the following code at the bottom:
    <!-- Remove this category when using this example, -->
    <!-- it is only used to add this example to the list of examples! -->
    [[Category:Examples|User Homepage]]
At my myin page, there is (in the header) a list of the mostly used 
categories, it also includes [[Category:Examples]]
And it contains a little HTML form to createa a new page (which is only
a matter of convenience)

The procedure to start with a new page from such a standard page is
- go to the example and copy the code
- create a new page from the main page
- paste the copied example and fill in actual data as required.
- from this point on the page develops independently,
  but it was based on a standard page, providing an initial uniform 
  structure

Hope this helps!
Regards
Wolfgang

Chris McIntosh wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to define a standard page to use for documenation on my wiki.
> It should look something like
> 
> Header:
> ...
> Business Case:
> ...
> Notes and Progress:
> ...
> etc
> 
> I tried to set this up first with a wiki template.
> {{ProjectTemplate|Blah|blah|blah}} However it doesn't seem to be able to
> give me the flexibility to create different section of markup and possible
> change their position at a later time.
> 
> I am thinking of something like an html page where I define different
> sections and then can define a stylesheet at a later time.
> 
> Is there anything like this in Mediawiki?
> 
> Chris McIntosh
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