[WikiEN-l] Time for preformatted empty articles?

Wed Nov 29 23:39:07 UTC 2006

This would need at least some more planning that what Wikinews offers,
since the range of article types is vastly different on Wikipedia.
But not at all a bad idea if it can be done well.

Ryan

On 11/29/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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