Author: webmaster

Description:
There have been a couple of instances when I have come across the need for a button that automates page creation functionality, but in such a strict, guided manner that the input box itself is not needed, just the button.

For instance:

<inputbox>
type=create
default=User:{{PAGENAME}}
buttonlabel=Create your user page!
editintro=MediaWiki:CreateUserPageMessage
preload=Template:UserPageTemplate
inputboxhidden=true <- This is what I mean, I would suggest something similar
</inputbox>

This would create a button which I could put on a new user's talk page. All the new user would have to do is hit the button and be taken to their userpage, which would be preloaded with a userpage template and with a nice friendly message at the top explaining how/why to create a user page.

Example: http://www.bartendersdatabase.com/index.php/User_talk:Kokomo
(Currently, it leaves the inputbox so the new user could accidently modify its contents and create a userpage for some other, possibly non-existant user)

Talk about making it EASY for newbies... :)

I foresee great and wide application of such functionality.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.bartendersdatabase.com/index.php/User_talk:Kokomo