[Mediawiki-l] Automatic template

Marco Rota marcor at sorint.it
Wed Jun 14 12:21:45 UTC 2006


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Marco

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "laurent" <laurent at sem.ca>
To: <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:17 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Automatic template


> Dear list :)
> 
> 
> On one of my wikis, every single bit of data submitted from the users 
> must be formatted the same way. It's like, for instance, people 
> submitting their business cards. Each much have a name, an address, a 
> telephone number.
> 
> Therefore, to make the whole wiki consistent, i made a template that 
> formats all this data into a pretty page. Each content page then just 
> have to call the template like:
> 
> {{bizcard|
> |name=John Doe
> |Numer=555-1212
> }}
> 
> This is all good and dandy, except I have no way to enforce that. When 
> users create new pages, they get a blank sheet and forget all about the 
> templates. Or they might think about the template, but forget half the 
> required fields.
> 
> So my question, in all its glory to this list is, is there a way to at 
> the very least pre-laod content into the "create new page" page so that 
> a blank template could be already in the face of the user, all that 
> he/she would need to do is to fill the blanks?
> 
> Best regards,
> Laurent Chouinard
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