Extension:NewArticleTemplates

NewArticleTemplates is an Extension that allows you to automatically prefill text of new pages with the contents of other predefined wiki-pages. It is possible to distinguish between namespaces and specify a different text for new subpages.

Installation & Configuration
The extension is probably more configurable than it needs to be. It is recommended that you use pages in the MediaWiki namespace for the templates, otherwise the templates are editable by everyone, which is probably not what you want. Here is a (hopefully) self-explanatory snippet of LocalSettings.php:

Handling of subpages
The handling of subpages is somewhat special: In the above example, a new article in the main namespace would be prefilled with MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplate, but if the new page is a subpage of an existing page, MediaWiki:NewArticleTemplate/Subpage would be used instead, if it exists.
 * 1) A page containing a slash ('/') is only considered a subpage if the part before the first slash represents an existing article
 * 2) If $wgNewArticleTemplatesOnSubpages is set to true, the extensions checks for the existence of a page with the suffix "/Subpage" to the normal title of the template-page and uses it instead, if it exists.

Categories in the templates
Note that MediaWikis includeonly- and noinclude-tags are also supported in the MediaWiki-namespace.

Example
http://vowi.fsinf.at/ has the extension installed. Try creating a new page in the main namespace, the "TU Wien"-namespace and the a new subpage of a "TU Wien"-page (all pages in TU Wien).

1.1 (rev. 187)

 * fixed a typo in the global imports
 * much refined handling of subpages
 * if the new page is a subpage and a subpage of the template named 'Subpage' exists, it is used instead

1.0

 * first version documented here