Extension:Boilerplatefactory

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
Boilerplatefactory Release status: experimental

Implementation	Page action , Tag
Description	Load boilerplate from different pages text when creating new pages
Author(s)	klml
Latest version	0.2 (2010-03-24)
MediaWiki	1.7.0+
License	GNU General Public License 2.0
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Hooks used EditFormPreloadText
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The Boilerplatefactory extension allows to select different pages as a boilerplate. You can choose from specified categories in an extra Special pages before editing new pages. You can use it to generate huge documents from many small Boilerplates

This Extension offers all Pages from Categories in one Root-Category (default: Category:Boilerplatefactory or change ist in LocalSettings.php) as boilerplates.

Im using:

API categorymembers with internally API Calling to get the categorymembers
Manual:Hooks/EditFormPreloadText to handle them to the new page
optional: Template {{subst:
respects noinclude

BugsEdit

Be careful with 2 bugs:

Only put Categories into Root-Category, no Articles
Namespace 0 (Artikle without prefix) will give template without : in {{:Article

ToDoEdit

liabilityEdit

#Bugs!
using POST instead of GET

Nice to haveEdit

sorting categories
Using additinally Extension:UrlGetParameters für Pagename or settings

RequirementsEdit

The Preloader extension requires MediaWiki 1.7.0 or later.

InstallationEdit

Download all extension files from github.com and place them in a Boilerplatefactory directory within your MediaWiki extensions directory
Edit LocalSettings.php and add the line require_once( "{$IP}/extensions/Boilerplatefactory/Boilerplatefactory.php" );
1. $wgBoilerplatefactorycategorie = 'Kategorie:Test' ; root Category for included Categories (default: Category:Boilerplatefactory).
2. $wgBoilerplatefactorydefaultpage = date( 'ym' ).'.dd_' ; for a Pagename proposal in the new Page

Installation can be verified through the Special:Version page.

ConfigurationEdit

Configuration of the boilerplate sources categories is done via the wgBoilerplatefactorycategories configuration variable, which takes the following format:

$wgBoilerplatefactorycategories[ ] = CATEGORY TITLE ;

For instance,

$wgBoilerplatefactorycategories[] = "Category:Outdoorproject";
$wgBoilerplatefactorycategories[] = "Category:Overnightproject";

dictates that these categories are selectable as boilerplate text for pages.

Provides 'optionally a default Pagename:

$wgBoilerplatefactorydefaultpage = defaultname ;

$wgBoilerplatefactorydefaultpage = date( 'Y-m-d' ).'-Projekt';

Provides 'optionally a Namespace:

$wgBoilerplatefactorynamespace = namespace;

$wgBoilerplatefactorynamespace = '104';

SkinEdit

You can use some css.

This for doubled column:

#boilerplatefactory div {
width:50%;
float:left;
}