Below is a patch to edittemplate that does a few things:

• It defaults the type of the file to be created to the same type as the template.
• It adds a 'silent' parameter to the directive that stops it from printing out what what registered.
• It makes the description of what was registered link to the template page (which gives feedback for typos or allows template creation)
• It adds a colon to the standard string correcting the syntax.

done except for the colon change; it's referring to the template as an edittemplate there. --Joey

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm
index 98308de..c381940 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm
@@ -56,8 +56,14 @@ sub preprocess (@) { #{{{

    $pagestate{$params{page}}{edittemplate}{$params{match}}=$params{template};

-   return sprintf(gettext("edittemplate %s registered for %s"),
-       $params{template}, $params{match});
+   return "" if ($params{silent} && IkiWiki::yesno($params{silent}));
+
+   my $link=IkiWiki::linkpage($params{template});
+   add_depends($params{page}, $link);
+   my $linkHTML = htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $link);
+
+   return sprintf(gettext("edittemplate: %s registered for %s"),
+       $linkHTML, $params{match});
 } # }}}

 sub formbuilder (@) { #{{{
@@ -89,6 +95,9 @@ sub formbuilder (@) { #{{{
                    if (pagespec_match($p, $pagespec, location => $registering_page)) {
                        $form->field(name => "editcontent",
                             value => filltemplate($pagestate{$registering_page}{edittemplate}{$pagespec}, $page));
+                       $form->field(name => "type",
+                            value => pagetype($pagesources{$pagestate{$registering_page}{edittemplate}{$pagespec}}))
+                               if $pagesources{$pagestate{$registering_page}{edittemplate}{$pagespec}};
                        return;
                    }
                }