[WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating

Tue Dec 20 21:34:37 UTC 2005

Steve Bennett wrote:

> Is it worth having different templates for different sorts of articles?
> Is it worth having a wizard?  "Is this an article about a person, place,
> event...?" "So it's a person.  Are they alive or dead?" "Great, what
> field are they most known in?" "Sport, eh? American, British, Jamaican?"
> Take that far enough and it could spit out half the article, with
> relevant templates, categories, stubs and pointers for you to read the
> guidelines for that type of project.

Nah. Start simple - just some prefilled wikitext should be enough.

> Is this the road we want to go down?

That's why to start simple, to see if we need to. Something to help the
newbies and not annoy the experienced editors.

- d.