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

Sun Dec 11 13:01:30 UTC 2005

G'day Andrew,

> 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...
> 
> It's worth a shot.

Good ideas all-around.  So ... who wants to write it?

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Mark Gallagher
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