Extension:MultiBoilerplate

The MultiBoilerplate extension allows a boilerplate to be selected from a dropdown box located above the edit form. By default this shows only on creation of new pages. When loading a boilerplate, it will completely replace whatever text is already in the edit form. See for more details.

The latest version is 2.1.1, released 2016-05-22. .

Since version 2.1.0, the extension uses the new Extension Registration that comes with MediaWiki 1.25 and so breaks compatibility with older versions.

Bugs and feature requests should be added to the extension's project page on Phabricator.

Main configuration
The main configuration is of the available boilerplates; this is done in one of two ways:   through  in , by filling the $wgMultiBoilerplateOptions array with a list of boilerplate names that correspond to templates, like so: 

 Through system message MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate, which uses the following format: ''Note: formatting the template entries as a list (i.e. including the leading asterisk) is required when using the MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate page. If this is not done, the entries will not be parsed properly and the templates will not show up. Headers (discussed below) are not required.''

You can also create headers inside the dropdown in order to separate boilerplates, by adding level 2 headers. For example:  

Since version 2.1.1, it is possible to add wikilinks on this page without breaking the extension.

Additional configuration options

 * : false by default. if set to true, will add to the wiki a page named Special:Boilerplates that shows the currently configured boilerplates. This must be specified before the inclusion of the extension in.
 * : false by default. If true, shows the boilerplates dropdown even on pre-existing pages. The selected boilerplate will completely overwrite the current contents.

MediaWiki compatibility
Older releases are most easily downloaded from the GitHub mirror.
 * Version 2.1.0 only works with MediaWiki 1.25+
 * Version 2.0.0 should work with MediaWiki 1.24+
 * Use 1.8.0 for MW <= 1.22