WikiSuggestions/Boilerplate Text A La Media Wiki

21 July 2005: 'Boilerplate' text à la MediaWiki

I'm rather surprised this hasn't already been suggested, but I can't find any mention of it. What I'd really love in my wiki [link removed - currently offline] is the capability to add a standard message to any page, like the 'stub'/'cleanup'/etc messages in Wikipedia's MediaWiki software.

I don't know how MediaWiki does it. What I'm envisaging is something like this...

• A separate plain-text file of messages
  • (Something like...
    stub: This page is a [[stub]], please expand it
    controversial: Please note that this is a controversial topic)
  • (Reasons for separate file: it would mean only the domain owner could edit it, which is what I'd want, and I wouldn't have to update the wiki.pl every time I changed it.)
  • Ideally you'd be able to use wiki-markup in the message file and it'd parse correctly once pulled in - but that's not essential, as long as I could use HTML.
• Then you'd put something like {msg:stub} on the page, and it'd pull in the relevant line of text.
  • (The curly braces are MediaWiki's syntax, but I'm not particularly attached to that: whatever's easiest and most logical.)

--Suitov

This functionality is implemented by WikiPatches/WikiTemplate -- UngarPeter