Extension:Create Page

MediaWiki extensions manual

Create Page Release status: beta
Implementation	Parser function , User interface
Description	Allows placing an input that takes the name of a new page into pages
Author(s)	Jeroen De Dauw, Ike Hecht
Latest version	0.5.0 (2021-02-02)
MediaWiki	1.35+
PHP	7.3+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history README RELEASE-NOTES
Parameters $wgCreatePageEditExisting $wgCreatePageUseVisualEditor
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit BeforePageDisplay

The Create Page extension allows you to insert an input that takes the name of a new page into pages.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted CreatePage folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CreatePage
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'CreatePage' );
  

• Configure as required.
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

$wgCreatePageEditExisting

Defaults to false. Set to true to edit existing pages.

$wgCreatePageUseVisualEditor

Defaults to false. Set to true to redirect to VisualEditor for page creation.

Usage

The input is placed using the #createpage parser function. It accepts 3 optional arguments. Namespace, default page name, and submission button text are in that order.

Most simple usage, which will send the user to ?title=enteredPageName&action=edit&redlink=1, i.e., create "enteredPageName" if it does not exist.

{{#createpage:}}

Create a page in the Course namespace:

{{#createpage:Course}}

A regularly behaving input, but with "Your page name" entered as the default value:

{{#createpage:|Your page name}}

Altering the text of the submission button:

{{#createpage:||Create this page!}}

Specifying the default content for the page to be created:

{{#createpage:|||Template:ScaffoldTemplateNameHere}}

Display the input on the same line as some text:

<p style="display:inline">Enter the name for a new course:</p> {{#createpage:Course||Create course}}

Authors

This extension was written by Jeroen De Dauw as a Wikimedia Foundation contractor for the Wikipedia Education Program.

See also

• Extension:InputBox - can add "Create page" form to existing page.
• Extension:CreatePageUw - provides a special page, "Create page".
• Extension:AutoCreatePage - provides a parser function, which, if present in the newly saved edit, will create another page automatically.