Extension:NamespacePreload

MediaWiki extensions manual

NamespacePreload Release status: stable
Implementation	Page action
Description	Preloads templates on new pages based on their namespace
Author(s)	Ostrzycieltalk
Latest version	1.2.0
Compatibility policy	Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
MediaWiki	1.30+ (I think)
PHP	7.3+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitLab: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net .
Parameters $wgNamespacePreloadDoExpansion $wgNamespacePreloadDoPreSaveTransform
Hooks used EditFormPreloadText

The NamespacePreload extension lets you define namespace-specific text that should be preloaded on new pages (that is, shown in the wiki editor when users begin to create a missing page). This can be useful if you want to maintain a consistent style in the text structure, template use, or categorization of pages in different namespaces.

Pre-save transforms can be optionally applied before showing the edit page to the user. See: Configuration.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called NamespacePreload in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'NamespacePreload' );
  

• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

The following variables are provided:

$wgNamespacePreloadDoExpansion

Whether to expand templates of the preloaded text. Default value is true.

$wgNamespacePreloadDoPreSaveTransform

Whether to apply pre-save transforms to the preloaded text before showing the edit page to the user. Default value is false.

Usage

To define text that should be preloaded for a namespace, first you have to determine the namespace ID. Please refer to the MediaWiki docs on how to do this. Once you obtain your namespace ID, create a page named MediaWiki:Preload-namespace-<namespace ID> containing the text to be preloaded in that namespace. For example, if you want to define a preload for the main namespace (ID 0), you should save it to the page MediaWiki:Preload-namespace-0.

Template expansion

When $wgNamespacePreloadDoExpansion is set to true (the default value), all templates in the preload message will be expanded before displaying the edit form. You can disable that for all namespaces using this configuration setting.

You can also disable expansion selectively by using a template or <nowiki> element to prevent the parser from recognizing the template call. For example, if your preload message contains {{SomeTemplate}} and you want that literal text to be shown in the wiki editor, you can use <nowiki>{{</nowiki>SomeTemplate}} or something like {{((}}SomeTemplate}}, assuming Template:(( on your wiki generates the text {{.