Customizable Default Wiki Text

[ksmith@…]

It's handy to be able to change the default wiki text from "describe PageName here" to "= PageName =", etc…

Possible implimentation could use configuration or search for a wiki page called WikiDefaultText.

[sarahg@…]

I like this idea. I'd just like to add that multi-line text should be possible. When I found this ticket I was originally going to suggest adding a newline to the end of the standard "Describe WikiPage here" text because often I'm about to paste something in and want what I paste to be separate from the text that's already there (which I don't dare select with the mouse when I'm about to paste something).

[Christopher Lenz]

#1193 has been marked as duplicate of this ticket.

[Christopher Lenz]

#1470 has been marked as duplicate of this ticket. It also provides a patch.

[anonymous]

I definitely prefer being able to select from one of several page templates when creating pages.

Those templates would have to be customizable, of course. Some other Wikis allow this simply by appending "Template" to the page name. Perhaps a special PageTemplates wiki might be a better approach.

For example, if we created PageTemplates/MeetingMinutes, PageTemplates/Requirement, and PageTemplates/Blog in our Wiki instance, "MeetingMinutes", "Requirement", and "Blog" would appear in our page template list whenever we edit a page for the first time.

[anonymous]

#2179 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket. It also provides a patch.

[Christian Boos]

#3859 was also marked as duplicate… I guess it's about time to implement this ;)

Proposal

If no PageTemplates/… page exist, simply behave as usual. If there are some, there will be a select field to pick one of those next to the Edit button for a non-existing page. We'd need some mechanism to specify the default template too, maybe just picking PageTemplates/Default if it exists, otherwise selecting the empty option, which would mean start with a blank page.

Implementation follows…

[Christian Boos]

Implements the PageTemplates/… idea.

[Christian Boos]

Please try out attachment:wiki_page_templates-r3886.patch​

One thing that could be changed is to make configurable the name of the default template, as PageTemplates/Default is perhaps not that obvious (could as well have been PageTemplates/WikiPage).

Anyway, I guess a new PagesTemplates explaining the feature would have to be added.

Note that the user interface is not changed at all from the former one if there are no PageTemplates/… pages.

Finally, the WikiPage.select_names could be reused in a few places (PageIndexMacro and WikiSystem come to mind).

[Matthew Good]

Replying to cboos:

Please try out attachment:wiki_page_templates-r3886.patch​

One thing that could be changed is to make configurable the name of the default template, as PageTemplates/Default is perhaps not that obvious (could as well have been PageTemplates/WikiPage).

I don't see a reason to configure it, though PageTemplates/DefaultPage would be CamelCase, so it's easier to link to. I think adding the PageTemplates page with a link to the default template would be fine.

[Christian Boos]

Ok, so let's keep PageTemplates/DefaultPage.

Slightly refined patch applied in r3881 (now the PageTemplates/ prefix doesn't appear in the list anymore, that's a bit nicer).