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Come up with a (better) placeholder message for new pages
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Description

When creating a new page in VE (or NWE) you are presented with a blank page on which it is not obvious where you start typing given its similarity to read mode.

VE supports placeholder messages and in mobile we show "You are creating a page on {{SITENAME}}!" (mobile-frontend-editor-placeholder-new-page), but this should probably be reworded as a prompt.

Event Timeline

Right now we put newarticletextanon or newarticletext into the alerts field. That's good for this stuff, but often contains a link which isn't really compatible with placeholders…

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