Dear SMW users,
I have created a small extension, AutoCreatePage [1], that makes it
possible to create "helper" pages by adding parser functions to one
page. I think this is especailly useful for SMW (and SF) users, so I
post it here.
How it works
============
You insert wikitext like the following into a page:
{{#createpageifnotex:Another page|Content for the page}}
When you safe the page, a new page "Another page" is created and its
initial content is set to "Content for the page". This only happens if
there is no page of that name yet. Pages are only created when saving an
edit, not on preview or view. You can use <nowiki> in the content part
to insert templates, ask queries, and other "active" wikitext. The
creation of the page is attributed to the user who made the edit.
Created pages are prevented from creating further pages in the same edit
(health and safety).
Why you would want this
=======================
When using SMW and Semantic Forms to create a pages, it can be useful to
create several pages at once. For example, you could keep some long
query results on their own page, or you could even create versions of
the page in several languages (one is used as the master copy of all the
data, and other language versions of the page use SMW to fetch information).
Normally, you would have to do this manually, even if the additional
pages contain only templates and queries (which do not need any further
user input to be created). With this extension, you can have templates
(and forms) that create their own helper pages (and maybe link to them).
This is used heavily on the AIFB Portal [2]. My code is based on their
original code, but most of it was rewritten to work with MediaWiki 1.23
(in a cleaner way).
Credits
=======
The original idea and code is due to Daniel Herzig. I just modernized
and simplified the code.
Future
======
I just put this quickly on github to share it with others. If you like
it, consider adopting the code (it is very short, only 100 lines). It
would be good to move it to gerrit at some point to have
internationalization of the three messages that it uses. Right now, the
code should be considered in beta state, though I am not aware of any
issues.
Cheers
Markus
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutoCreatePage
[2] http://www.aifb.kit.edu/
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