Extension:Create Page

MediaWiki extensions manual

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	0.4 (2015-02-23)
MediaWiki	1.18.0 or higher
PHP	5.3 or above
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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Contents

Requirements

Create Page requires:

• MediaWiki 1.18 or above - autocomplete requires version 1.25
• PHP 5.3 or above

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:

  require_once "$IP/extensions/CreatePage/CreatePage.php";
  

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

Configuration parameters

$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}}

Version

This is a copy of the release notes file on git, which might be more up to date than this page.

These are the release notes for the Create Page extension.

Version 0.4

(2015-02-23)

• Added $wgCreatePageEditExisting variable.
• Added $wgCreatePageUseVisualEditor variable.
• Added autocomplete to input field.

Version 0.2

(2013-07-07)

• Added 4th parameter to add intial text to the created page.
• Use of wfMessage rather then wfMsg.
• Explicit references to globals in entry point file.

Version 0.1

(2012-2-4)

Initial release.

Internationalization

Create Page is fully internationalized. Translation of Create Page messages is done through translatewiki.net. The translation for this extension can be found here. To add language values or change existing ones, you should create an account on translatewiki.net, then request permission from the administrators to translate a certain language or languages on this page (this is a very simple process). Once you have permission for a given language, you can log in and add or edit whatever messages you want to in that language.

Authors

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

External links

• Create Page on Ohloh

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.