Extension:Create Page

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Create Page Release status: beta
Implementation	Parser function , User interface
Description	Allows placing an input that takes the name of a new page into pages
Author(s)	Jeroen De Dauw, Ike Hecht
Latest version	0.5.0 (2021-02-02)
MediaWiki	1.35+
PHP	7.3+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
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Parameters $wgCreatePageEditExisting $wgCreatePageUseVisualEditor
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit BeforePageDisplay
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The Create Page extension allows placing an input that takes the name of a new page into pages.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called CreatePage in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  wfLoadExtension( 'CreatePage' );
  

• Configure as required.
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

$wgCreatePageEditExisting

Defaults to false. Set to true to edit existing pages.

$wgCreatePageUseVisualEditor

Set to true to redirect to VisualEditor for page creation..

Usage

The input is placed using the #createpage parser function. It accepts 3 optional arguments. Namespace, default page name and submission button text, in that order.

Most simple usage, which will send the user to ?title=enteredPageName&action=edit&redlink=1, ie create enteredPageName if it does not exist yet.

{{#createpage:}}

Create a page in the Course namespace.

{{#createpage:Course}}

A regularly behaving input, but with "Your page name" entered as default value.

{{#createpage:|Your page name}}

Altering the text of the submission button.

{{#createpage:||Create this page!}}

Specifying default content for the page to be created.

{{#createpage:|||Template:ScaffoldTemplateNameHere}}

Display the input on the same line as some text.

<p style="display:inline">Enter the name for a new course:</p> {{#createpage:Course||Create course}}

Authors

Create Page has been written by Jeroen De Dauw as Wikimedia Foundation contractor for the Wikipedia Education Program.

See also

• Extension:InputBox - can add "Create page" form to existing page.
• Extension:CreatePageUw - provides special page "Create page".
• Extension:AutoCreatePage - provides parser function which, if present in the newly saved edit, will create another page automatically.