MediaWiki extensions manual

Create Page Release status: beta
Implementation	Parser function, User interface
Description	Allows placing an input that takes the name of a new page into pages
Author(s)	Jeroen De Dauw, Ike Hecht
Latest version	0.5.0 (2021-02-02)
MediaWiki	1.35+
PHP	7.3+
Database changes	No
Parameters $wgCreatePageEditExisting $wgCreatePageUseVisualEditor
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit BeforePageDisplay
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL commit history README RELEASE-NOTES

TheCreate Page extension allows you to insert an input that takes the name of a new page into pages.

• Download and move the extractedCreatePage folder to yourextensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extensionfrom Git instead, using:

  cdextensions/gitclonehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CreatePage

• Add the following code at the bottom of yourLocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension('CreatePage');

• Configure as required.
• Done – Navigate toSpecial:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

$wgCreatePageEditExisting

Defaults tofalse. Set totrue to edit existing pages.

$wgCreatePageUseVisualEditor

Defaults tofalse. Set totrue to redirect to VisualEditor for page creation.

The input is placed using the#createpage parser function. It accepts 3 optional arguments. Namespace, default page name, and submission button text are in that order.

Most simple usage, which will send the user to?title=enteredPageName&action=edit&redlink=1, i.e., create "enteredPageName" if it does not exist.

{{#createpage:}}

Create a page in the Course namespace:

{{#createpage:Course}}

A regularly behaving input, but with "Your page name" entered as the default value:

{{#createpage:|Your page name}}

Altering the text of the submission button:

{{#createpage:||Create this page!}}

Specifying the default content for the page to be created:

{{#createpage:|||Template:ScaffoldTemplateNameHere}}

Display the input on the same line as some text:

<pstyle="display:inline">Enter the name for a new course:</p> {{#createpage:Course||Create course}}

This extension was written byJeroen De Dauw as aWikimedia Foundation contractor for theWikipedia Education Program.

• Extension:InputBox - can add "Create page" form to existing page.
• Extension:CreatePageUw - provides a special page, "Create page".
• Extension:AutoCreatePage - provides a parser function, which, if present in the newly saved edit, will create another page automatically.

This extension is included in the following wiki farms/hosts and/or packages: Miraheze semantic::core

• Beta status extensions
• Parser function extensions
• User interface extensions
• ParserFirstCallInit extensions
• BeforePageDisplay extensions
• GPL licensed extensions
• Extensions in GitHub version control
• All extensions
• Extensions included in Miraheze
• Extensions included in semantic::core

• Extensions without a compatibility policy
• Extensions with manual MediaWiki version