Use Case inline

Along the same lines as having a default name for new posts, an option to include default content in a new inline post would help with tasks like using an inline for a comment form on each new blog post. --JoshTriplett

No, it would only help if the new blog post were being made via the form. If you're editing it in vi, and committing, it doesn't help. :-) This is another reason why I prefer the approach in discussion page as blog. Although I don't mind getting this implemented too, for other reasons.

I see three possible designs:

  1. Simply use the bestlink(new_page_content) as the default content. Thomas Schwinge emailed me an implementation of this. It has the problem that it doesn't make sense to use the same new page template for a Discussion page as for the page being discussed. (That's a specific case of a more general problem.)

  2. Modify inline so that "template=foo" uses page foo as the template for new posts made to the blog. This doesn't cater to every case, but perhaps it would be enough?

  3. Make pages able to embed in them a pagespec that says they are the template when new pages are created that match that pagespec. This is the most general solution, but depends on plugin data storage.

--Joey

This feature would also allow the automatic inclusion of a given template in every new post, which could help for plugins (automatically use the plugin template), or for bugs and todo items (automatically use a template that appends "(done)" to the title if the page links to "done"). --JoshTriplett

This is a feature I miss a lot from MoinMoin, and is especially helpful when you maintain pages which have a regular format (eg. recipe pages). I understand that using svn would bypass this feature but I think it's worth considering anyway because:

  • For any given site often it's only the admin user who makes changes via svn, everyone else uses the web
  • It's remote and casual users who benefit most from having standard templates to use for new pages
  • When using svn to make changes it's easier to manually provide template functionality (eg. cp recipe_template.mdwn newpage.mdwn)

All of course bearing in mind that I'm just commenting because I don't have the skills to actually make the required changes. ;-) -- AdamShand

Use Case Copyright Notes

Leaving aside the inline stuff I have a completely different use case for this (which is also why I wrote the plugin Joey mentioned).

For a GNU-affiliated wiki we want to track copyright stuff right from the beginning, as the wiki pages may eventually evolve into official GNU documentation.

That's why I want to have such copyright notices be included in every freshly created page by default (and having them interpreted by another plugin I also emailed to Joey).

Of course this will also only work when using web-editing, but the people using rcs-editing (coining new terms, eh ;-)?) usually know what they're doing.

--tschwinge

done in the edittemplate plugin. --Joey