Last modified: 2006-01-24 00:36:59 UTC
most ideally, something like a simple tag: <newpagelink> linktext=Start a new news article. template=template:news article (optional, default: blank page) </newpagelink> And it would be nice if an input box for the article's title would show up on the invoking article. This would generate a link that would copy the template into a new page with a specified title, and bring the user to that article's edit page. If the input box on the invoking page can't be done (though i've seen a wiki where one can create forms -XWiki, i think it was?), they can enter the article's title on the edit page, as one does when creating a new section. if the inputbox can be done, a possible extra parameter to set whether the link comes before or after the input box could be: position=(before,after) (optional, default: after)
I (as non native English speaker) can hardly understand the intention behind this request. Probably that's because it doesn't describe your problem, but something that you imagine as the solution. So please just state _what_ problem you want to solve, but leave away all the _how_ you want things changed.
The problem is for WikiNews article development process: since ithe whole purpose of the site is to quickly develop and publish quality news articles, new articles are created regularly and the whole process from inception to deployment must be as quick as possible. This would quicken the process by taking out a number of steps.
I think I understand - there are really two parts here, which would make each other more useful: * a form which can be inserted into a wiki page which lets the user type in the name of a new article * the ability to create a new page with some "template" content, rather than completely blank Bug 1045 has an ancient patch doing some of want you want here - the reasonably frequent request that pages should be creatable based on a pre-existing template. The idea of having a form into which you type the name of the article is something else people often ask for (in general it's wise to avoid this, because wikis should by their nature be well-connected, but I think Wikinews has a genuine case for being an exception), though I haven't seen exactly this approach suggested before.
In combination with bug 2282 regarding cache invalidation triggers (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2286 ), (and possibly adding sort parameters to dpls) this feature would greatly optimize wikinew's article workflow, via making my proposed workspace (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Proposed_Workspace) fully functional.
Erik's "inputbox" extension for v1.5 has gone into use on wikinews. Announcement : http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-July/030579.html Documentation : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inputbox_extension Example : http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_an_article
*** Bug 2937 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
