Talk:Creation of new pages

I have looked far and wide to get to know ways on how to easily create pages with prefilled in parts of the page so that new editors have a very easy time selecting the right page, making them fill it in and thus having a continues set of same view pages without needing to edit to clean up a lot after creations from not very experienced users.

Sure, i don't mind cleaning up. Neither do i feel new creators should not add pages, hence, i love seeing new pages created.

But i am sort of lazy and love to get things done easier if available.

Today i found out that there are indeed examples of that done in a good way. Not picture perfect yet, but a lot better then what was done so far.

I am talking about the page creation articles found at Phineas and Ferb wiki. With many different templates i think this still needs quite a lot of editing and might not meet our needs right now (since all items known so far have been added to this wiki already) but it might still be good to play around with it.

Love to know what you think about it. If you need explaining how to insert it or how it works, let me know!


 * WikiPim, thanks for pointing out this page creation portal so I could identify a certain tag.


 * I checked. I noticed they had an embedded tag. I checked our wiki, we have it too. Proper usage reference page.


 * Createbox

Example

align=left buttonlabel=Preload item page preload=Template:New_Item_Layout

Result

align=left buttonlabel=Preload item page preload=Template:New_Item_Layout


 * Plain preload link (alternative)


 * An alternative is just about any wiki can preload, like I do on our main page. This is the link from the first line in the page tools section.

Preload item page Result

Preload item page


 * Preloadable page


 * The preload page can be any page, you must have the page with full contents created ahead of time and referenced of course. So if you consider templates, you just need 1 template for each page.


 * It's suggested you should use a creation method in other wikis which makes it obvious that the page is for preloading. Example below.


 * Create the preload page first. Template:Preloadable_page and include subpage Template:Preloadable_page/preload, otherwise someone looking at the template would think it is an empty template with no documentation that has been abandoned.


 * Knowing you are a lot better with fiddling with code and templates, could you take up this part Active?
 * I think it would be nice if a new page option was created for item pages, quest pages and category pages (with sortable tables?)
 * I think it would be nice if a new page option was created for item pages, quest pages and category pages (with sortable tables?)