Re: [WikiEN-l] Preformatted blank articles? (was Experiment on new pages and GFDL)

I found out what preload is. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noarticlehere&action=edit&...

So, in pseudocode (I don't know mediawiki), all that'd need to be done is change:

return $text;

to:

if ($text!='') { return $text; } else if (namespace is article namespace) { return $newarticleboilerplate; } else { return ''; }

On 12/11/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:

On 12/11/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:

...

Here's the relevant code from February 2005:

                    if ( 'edit' == $action ) {
                            wfProfileOut( $fname );
                            return ''; # was "newarticletext", now

moved above the box) }

Oh yeah, that'd be phase3/includes/Article.php. I just cvs updated, and it's changed:

                    if ( 'edit' == $action ) {
                            wfProfileOut( $fname );

                            # If requested, preload some text.
                            $text=$this->getPreloadedText($preload);

                            # We used to put

MediaWiki:Newarticletext here if # $text was empty at this point. # This is now shown above the edit box instead. return $text; }

Not sure what getPreloadedText is. Maybe this feature is already in there. Still doesn't seem to check namespace, though.

If not, I could make a patch if the developers want, but it's been a while since I've hacked mediawiki code and it's such a simple change, so it's probably better if they did it themselves.

Anthony