Extension:NewArticleTemplates

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NewArticleTemplates Release status: beta
Implementation	User interface
Description	Prefills newly created pages with some text.
Author(s)	Mathias Ertl (MathiasErtltalk)
Latest version	1.3 (2021-06-30)
MediaWiki	1.35+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net . Changelog
Example	see below
Parameters $wgNewArticleTemplatesNamespaces $wgNewArticleTemplatesPerNamespace $wgNewArticleTemplatesDefault $wgNewArticleTemlatesOnSubpages
Hooks used EditPage::showEditForm:initial

The NewArticleTemplates extension allows to automatically prefill text of new pages with the contents of other predefined wiki-pages. It is possible to distinguish between namespaces and specify a different text for new subpages.

Download

• From GitHub Repository (1.3)
• From GitHub Repository (1.2)

Installation & Configuration

The extension is probably more configurable than it needs to be. It is recommended that you use pages in the MediaWiki namespace for the templates, otherwise the templates are editable by everyone, which is probably not what you want. Here is a (hopefully) self-explanatory snippet of LocalSettings.php:

wfLoadExtension( 'NewArticleTemplates' );

# Templates are used in these namespaces:
$wgNewArticleTemplatesNamespaces = [
        NS_MAIN                 => 1,
        100                     => 1,
        102                     => 1,
        104                     => 1,
        106                     => 1
];

# new pages in the main namespace use MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplates:
$wgNewArticleTemplatesPerNamespace = array(
        NS_MAIN                 => "MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplates",
);

# new pages in any other namespace defined by $wgNewArticleTemplatesNamespaces use MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplatesDefault:
$wgNewArticleTemplatesDefault = "MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplatesDefault";

Handling of subpages

The handling of subpages is somewhat special:

1. A page containing a slash ('/') is only considered a subpage if the part before the first slash represents an existing article
2. If $wgNewArticleTemplatesOnSubpages is set to true, the extensions checks for the existence of a page with the suffix "/Subpage" to the normal title of the template-page and uses it instead, if it exists.
   In the above example, a new article in the main namespace would be prefilled with MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplates, but if the new page is a subpage of an existing page, MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplates/Subpage would be used instead, if it exists.

Categories in the templates

Note that MediaWikis includeonly- and noinclude-tags are also supported in the MediaWiki-namespace.

Example

http://vowi.fsinf.at/ has the extension installed. Try creating a new page in the main namespace, the "TU Wien"-namespace and then a new subpage of a "TU Wien"-page (all pages in TU Wien).

Changelog

1.3 (2021-06-30)

• Update for MediaWiki 1.35 and later

1.2 (2018-03-29)

• Update for MediaWiki 1.29 and later

1.1 (rev. 187)

• fixed a typo in the global imports
• much refined handling of subpages
• if the new page is a subpage and a subpage of the template named 'Subpage' exists, it is used instead

1.0

• first version documented here

See Also

• Extension:Preloader provides per-namespace preload text
• Extension:Header Footer provides per-namespace header/footer text
• Extension:MultiBoilerplate provides per dropdownlist multiple templates