[WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating

Tue Dec 20 22:18:40 UTC 2005

> > Apologies for my ignorance, but could someone explain what a pre-filled
> > template is? Is it just having default text in the create new article 
>page?
> > I must have missed the beginning of the discussion. Thanks!
>
>Basically, just now, you click "Create this arricle", and you get a
>blank screen.
>
>The pre-filling idea is that when you click "Create this article", you
>get a screen with skeleton headings, a bit of boilerplate text...
>basically, as though someone had edited the page before you and added
>some boilerplate. It gives a framework to write around rather than
>just the terrifying whiteness.
>
>--
>- Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk

Thanks for the reply! This might have been mentioned already, but if we do 
this, won't we get tons of newly created articles with just the text 
template?

Flcelloguy
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