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Bug 2937 - Default text for new articles
Default text for new articles
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2286
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
InputBox (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:I...
: patch, patch-need-review
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2005-07-22 22:54 UTC by FrankSchweickert
Modified: 2006-01-24 00:41 UTC (History)
0 users

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description FrankSchweickert 2005-07-22 22:54:16 UTC
I need a default text for new articles that go in the edit box,
but I could figure it out from the documentation and the php source.
I find a solution that works for me, and should be interesting for other 
users, too - but I'm actually not sure what I'm doing and if it 
does affect security or functionality.


In Article.php I changed line 183 in function getContent()

   return '';  # was "newarticletext", now moved above the box)
into
   return wfMsg( 'fs_default' );  # was "newarticletext", now moved above the box)

Now, I can write my defaut text in an article "MediaWiki:fs_default". which will
show up in the textarea wbtextbox1 of the editing tool, whenever I run into a
non existing article.

Is that a good idea?

It would be even nicer if one could define a default text for every article level

Regards,
Frank
Comment 1 Zigger 2005-07-23 03:21:55 UTC
See also these similar requests with patches/extensions:
* bug 1045 : default text from a template (file)
* bug 2286 : default text from a template using a form-generating extension
Comment 2 FrankSchweickert 2005-07-23 13:45:47 UTC
The inputbox extension would indeed do the trick
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inputbox_extension

But where can one find it? I didnt find any download for the correspondent php
file to go in the extension folder of my 1.5 beta 3 installation.

I tried http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mediawiki_Extensions and Google
seriously.

And why is this no core feature? I understand that people fear interference of
default texts with the philosophy of open Wikipedias. But you can always delete
the text in the edit box.
And default text helps the users to get used to the Wiki mark up syntax,
especially when dealing with highly structured types of information that use
advanced mark up features.

Frank
Comment 3 FrankSchweickert 2005-07-23 17:16:10 UTC
Ok - I found it, and it works.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/inputbox/

I will see if I can place more obvious a hint where to find those extensions

Regards,
Frank
Comment 4 Zigger 2005-07-24 02:18:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2286 ***

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