Extension:MultiBoilerplate

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MultiBoilerplate

Release status: stable
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Implementation  User interface
Description Allows a boilerplate to be selected from a drop down box located above the edit form when editing pages.
Author(s)  Robert Leverington (RobertLTalk)
Last Version  1.8.0
MediaWiki  1.11 or higher
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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check usage (experimental)

The MultiBoilerplate extension allows a boilerplate to be selected from a drop down box located above the edit form when editing non-existant pages or optionally (based upon configuration variable $wgMultiBoilerplateOverwrite), load the template over the current contents. Any data inside <noinclude></noinclude> tags will not be loaded, and any data inside <includeonly></includeonly> will only be included (and the tags are stripped before include).

Bugs and feature requests should be added to MediaZilla under the 'MediaWiki extensions' product and 'MultiBoilerplate' component.

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[edit] Installation

  1. Check out all extension files and place them in a MultiBoilerplate subdirectory within your MediaWiki extensions directory. (For 1.8 version (latest) select TRUNK)
  2. Add require_once( "$IP/extensions/MultiBoilerplate/MultiBoilerplate.php" ); to LocalSettings.php.
  3. Enjoy!

[edit] Usage

Fill the $wgMultiBoilerplateOptions variable with a list of boilerplate names to templates.

$wgMultiBoilerplateOptions[ "My Boilerplate" ] = "Template:My Boilerplate";

Alternatively set the variable to false and use the MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate page to set options.

LocalSettings.php: 
$wgMultiBoilerplateOptions = false;
MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate: 
* My Boilerplate|Template:My Boilerplate

Optionally set whether or not the selection box is displayed on pages that already exist (defaults to false) using $wgMultiBoilerplateOverwrite.

$wgMultiBoilerplateOverwrite = true;

An includable special page can be added that displays a list of boilerplates.

$wgMultiBoilerplateDiplaySpecialPage = true;

[edit] Releases

Version Release date Comments
1.1 2007-12-18 Original version.
1.2 2008-01-07 Refactor code, fix major bug that made the extension useless and add comments.
1.3 2008-01-19 Use Xml:: instead of manually created HTML, converted all double-quotes to single-quotes, added an optional message multiboilerplate-label to display a label before the drop-down box, and rename multiboilerplate-select to multiboilerplate-legend and multiboilerplate-load to multiboilerplate-submit to be less ambiguous.
1.4 2008-02-06
  • It is now (optionally) possible to specify boilerplates in a MediaWiki namespace message instead of a LocalSettings.php configuration variable.
  • The extension now uses descriptionmsg (allowing description internationalisation).
  • Part of the code that used direct database interfacing to check for article existence has been replaced with a call to the $wgTitle global.
  • The $wgMultiBoilerplateThings global has been renamed to $wgMultiBoilerplateOptions for a greater level of self-explanation.
  • The boilerplate selection box is no longer displayed if there are no options.
  • Version number incremented from 1.3 to 1.4.
1.5 2008-02-06 Now handles <noinclude> and<includeonly> tags.
1.6 2008-02-26
  • Added README.
  • ltrim() now used instead of preg_replace().
1.7 2009-04-08 Get boilerplates from content message when used, instead of user language message.
1.8.0 2009-07-31 Optional special page

[edit] See Also

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