Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:26 UTC
For example, the form for 'Special:CreateProperty' could be generated by a form on the wiki, i.e. 'Form:CreateProperty'. Their would be two advantages (I think): 1) Most importantly, pages in the Property namespace could be associated with the form so that clicking on a non-existent property would take the user to the form instead of to a blank 'create page' page. 2) Users (or just SysOps) could tweak the form. Users may not want to use these forms to create the properties, but I guess the usual 'edit' / 'edit with form' tabs would appear a usual. Could any / all of the SF special 'create' pages be implemented as regular forms?
As you know, SF currently only edits template calls. Would the idea be to store the information on property pages using template calls (which is possible), or to modify SF so that it can parse and edit free text as well?
Actually I forgot about this nuance. I don't see a problem with using a template call to provide information to the property pages. Especially as this would maintain consistency of SF.
In that case, this can just be done with a template and form page. It might be an interesting idea to create a standard wiki-page setup for properties, for use across wikis, but I don't think it should be part of SF. I'm setting this to "WONTFIX".
