Extension talk:PreloadManager

Namespace List

Hi, depents the list for $namespace$ from the language? Where can i get a full list?

Thank!

Hi - on the equivalent page to Special:Allpages, there is a drop-down list called namespace where one can see all the active namespaces on one's wiki. Jean-Lou Dupont 10:33, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

PreloadManager package

Hello Jean-Lou, I couldn't figure out where to download the PreloadManager folder that I need to put in the wiki/extensions directory. Thanks, pax

Can't figure out how to make this work in the main namespace

Hi, we have installed the extension, and it works for, e.g., the Template namespace by creating a MediaWiki:PreloadManager/Template subpage and add the preloaded text in includeonlys there. However, I cannot figure out how to make this work for the Main namespace. I have tried creating test pages at

• MediaWiki:PreloadManager
• MediaWiki:PreloadManager/Main
• MediaWiki:PreloadManager/(Main)

but none of this works. Obviously I am missing what the canonical name of the main namespace is... All our name spacenames are the default ones (except the name of the wiki itself of course)

Bonus question:

Can I use this manager to preload the summary field in the file upload? If not, what is the easiest way to add a fixed template there.

-- Slaunger 09:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Is this working with MW 1.15.0

I've tried to get it working with the custum namespace and it seems to be doing nothing, i have a namespace Video ($wgExtraNamespaces[NS_VIDEO] = "Video";) and i put what i want to go in the default text box of the new pages in MediaWiki:PreloadManager/Video. When i go to Video:bla and click on create i get nothing. 92.243.182.121 15:00, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm also trying to use this with 1.15, and getting nothing. I've posted a question at mwusers.com, and I realised I should add my experiences here, in case it's useful to anyone.

Special:Version is showing that PreloadManager, and its dependency Extension:StubManager, are installed. I've created MediaWiki:PreloadManager/User, but new pages in the user namespace still start blank. Since the author's userpage says that he hasn't been maintaining the extension for more than a year, I'm wondering whether recent changes to MediaWiki have broken it. I don't know enough about PHP or the MediaWiki codebase to work out whether that's true. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 10:53, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

...and now I've found an alternative that does. I found Manual:Creating pages with preloaded text, which pointed me to Extension:Preloader. I tried it, and it works. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 21:36, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for following up with that helpful information. Badon 05:59, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Interesting error with 1.17

Extension works well, except for one very small detail. In 1.17, if you go to "Special:Version" you'll find this error at the very top, where you typically find PHP echo messages

Strict Standards: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, non-static method StubManager::hUpdateExtensionCredits() should not be called statically in D:\xampp\htdocs\w\includes\Hooks.php on line 133

The function "hUpdateExtensionCredits" is on line 336 of StubManager.php, and I don't know nearly enough about PHP to fix the issue.

Aaaaand 5 minutes later I find the solution here. In short, change Line 366 to

public static function hUpdateExtensionCredits( &$sp, &$ext ) {

German mediawiki Version 1.25

The extension causes an fatal error, when trying to create new categories. --[[User:Bmrberlin| Bernd M.]] (talk) 06:25, 24 February 2016 (UTC)