Thread:Project:Support desk/Automatically creating a page when an internal wikilink appears on another page in the wiki

Is there a way to automatically create a wiki page when an internal link appears somewhere on the wiki? (As opposed to a redlink showing up and then having to click it to create the page and then clicking "Save".) Also, if it is possible, it will be great to be able to make a list of pages to be automatically created when an internal link appears. For example, if someone adds Apple to some page on the wiki, I would like to automatically generate the page "Apple" (with its own new page template) and also the page "Template:Apple" with its own new page template.

We are using version MediaWiki 1.16.2, PHP 5.3.6 (cgi-fcgi), and MySQL 	5.1.48-log. Sorry cannot link to wiki since it requires certificates.