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Same Sections On Each Page - Enforcing/Supporting
Hello Everyone,

I'm setting up a wiki where I need the same section headings to appear
in every entry - ie a fixed page format. Therefore, it should ideally
do the following:

- When a user creates a new entry, the default page should contain the
required section headings. (As opposed to being empty, which is the
usual situation).
- When anyone submits a page, the entry should only be updated if the
sections are retained.

I can't find anything about this sort of functionality in the
documentation or mailing list archives. Is it possible to do this, or
is there any work planned in this direction?

Thanks,
Michael
Re: Same Sections On Each Page - Enforcing/Supporting [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 07:54, michael@mahemoff.com wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a wiki where I need the same section headings to appear
> in every entry - ie a fixed page format. Therefore, it should ideally
> do the following:
>
> - When a user creates a new entry, the default page should contain the
> required section headings. (As opposed to being empty, which is the
> usual situation).
> - When anyone submits a page, the entry should only be updated if the
> sections are retained.
>
> I can't find anything about this sort of functionality in the
> documentation or mailing list archives. Is it possible to do this, or
> is there any work planned in this direction?

So, there's no functionality to do this in MediaWiki right now. I think
a couple of other wiki engines (MoinMoin and PmWiki come to mind
immediately) have page templates.

I'd like to work them into MediaWiki at some point, since we use
templating for Wikitravel, too. But I wouldn't count on a delivery any
time soon.

~ESP

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