On 06/07/06, Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches(a)gmail.com> wrote:
someone could make an extension that lets the user
choose one of the
available mw templates and then generates a form with one field to
each of the template variables.
And then, the article would be created with the selected template and
parameters as the initial content.
There's something similar, but not quite as described; see the
Preloader extension. You can provide the name of a page used as
pre-filled text for each namespace, so when creating a new page in the
main namespace, for instance, the contents of a page can be inserted
into the edit form and hacked about.
This doesn't, at present
* allow selecting between different templates, though it might be
feasible to add
* provide nice little forms, although that could also be arranged, perhaps
Rob Church