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This patch enables support for the use of Templates for New 
Articles.
It does check if it is a New Article (and not a preview) and 
can be enabled/disabled in LocalSettings.php.

This is a diff from my local CVS wiki (original version) to 
the installed one.

RCS file: /usr/cvs/wiki/includes/EditPage.php,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -r1.1.1.1 EditPage.php
404a405,418
>
>     $articletemplate = '';
>     /* Checking if its a new article and it is not a 
preview */
>       if(!$this->mTitle->getArticleID() && $formtype !
= 'preview'){ # new article
>       /*
>        * Yes, it is a new article.
>        * Checking if should get data from template and if 
template file exists
>       */
>       global $wgUseArticleTemplate;
>       global $wgArticleTemplateFile;
>       if($wgUseArticleTemplate && is_readable
($wgArticleTemplateFile)){
>         $articletemplate = implode('', file
($wgArticleTemplateFile));
>       }
>     }
412c426
< htmlspecialchars( $wgLang->recodeForEdit( $this-
>textbox1 ) ) .
---
> htmlspecialchars( $wgLang->recodeForEdit( 
$articletemplate . $this->textbox1 ) ) .
424a439
>     unset($articletemplate);

---

RCS file: /usr/cvs/wiki/LocalSettings.php,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -r1.2 LocalSettings.php
102a103,105
>
> $wgUseArticleTemplate   = true;
> $wgArticleTemplateFile  = 'templates/templatetoedit.txt';

Above are the entries used in LocalSettings.php.
$wgUseArticleTemplate is a boolean (true/false) which 
enables/disables the support for Article Templates usage.
$wgArticleTemplateFile is the file which will be automaticly 
loaded in New Article's textarea edition space.

I hope this helps somebody. :)