[WikiEN-l] Time for preformatted empty articles?

Wed Nov 29 15:55:48 UTC 2006

Rather than going on a campaign to kill all new articles without
sufficient sourcing, would it be time to introduce article prefilling,
using the <inputbox> extension?

For an example, go to en.wikinews.org, type something into the "Start
a new article" box and hit "Create article". This example is created
using the wikitext:

<inputbox>
type=create
preload=Template:New_page
editintro=Template:New_article_intro
width=25
bgcolor=#f0f0ff
</inputbox>

Presumably we'd need this switched on for en:wp if it isn't already.

- d.