[WikiEN-l] Preformatted blank articles? (was Experiment on new pages and GFDL)

Sat Dec 10 21:11:01 UTC 2005

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 09/12/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

>>While this would just be wikitext, and any experienced Wikipedia regular
>>could of course format an article how they liked, new editors would be
>>presented clearly with what we expect from a new article.
>>With this in place, I think we could even allow anons to create articles
>>again on en:. They certainly wouldn't just put "so what do you want me
>>to type?"

> Another benefit: stick in [[Category:New articles]] as prefilled text
> at the bottom. We end up with a cleanup category, where articles will
> go until someone hacks them about a bit and (eg) categorises them. A
> nice corrolary to Newpages, in that you can see an experienced editor
> *hasn't* been at the page yet...

Brilliant!

- d.