[Mediawiki-l] Substituting Template Content On Page Creation

[Tom Purl]

That's exactly what I was looking for Kevin!  Thanks to everyone for
their help.

Tom Purl

> Sounds like you need the highly-acclaimed Inputbox extension...which is
> actually how I came to learn of the nifty things you can throw into an
> edit
> URL like &preload= and &editintro=.
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> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox
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> On 9/6/06, Tom Purl <tom at tompurl.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Kevin, that worked really well!
>>
>> I have one more constraint, however.  I'm building a simple data-entry
>> "application" using MediaWiki, and the people who will be creating and
>> editing these pages probably won't want to fiddle with the address bar
>> in their browser.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a way to do this by clicking on a single
>> link or button?  It would even be fine if it was a two-step process, as
>> long as that process was farily simple and intuitive.  Also, I'm open to
>> editing some PHP or creating a special page if that's necessary.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Tom Purl
>>
>> > Add this to your page edit URL:    &preload=Template:BigDoc
>> >
>> > ..Kev
>> >
>> >
>> > On 9/6/06, Tom Purl < tom at tompurl.com > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I have a wiki Template called Template:BigDoc with something like the
>> >> following:
>> >>
>> >>     This is the top of the document.
>> >>
>> >>     Field Value A: (fill in a value)
>> >>     Field Value B: (fill in a value)
>> >>
>> >>     This is the bottom line of the document.
>> >>
>> >> I would like to create a document based on Template:BigDoc multiple
>> >> times
>> >> a day.  This is how I currently do that:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Create a new document.
>> >> 2. Enter the following into the document:
>> >>    * {{subst:BigDoc}}
>> >> 3. Save that document.
>> >> 4. Re-edit that document
>> >> 5. I then see my template text, which I edit.
>> >>
>> >> It would be nice if I could eliminate a couple of these steps when
>> >> creating a document based on a template.  Ideally, I would even like
>> to
>> >> be
>> >> able to start editing a document based on a template using one click.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know if this is possible with MediaWiki?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance!
>> >>
>> >> Tom Purl
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