https://gw1wiki.ezgame.cc/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Guild_Wars_Wiki%3ARequests_for_technical_administration%2FCreateBox 2026-10-18T19:52:32Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.17 https://gw1wiki.ezgame.cc/index.php?title=Guild_Wars_Wiki:Requests_for_technical_administration/CreateBox&diff=8964&oldid=prev 2007-06-06T19:41:23Z

<p>New page: ; Title : [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateBox CreateBox 1.5] ; Type : new installation of a MediaWiki extension ; Reason : Allows users to insert a handier form interface to...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>; Title : [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateBox CreateBox 1.5]<br /> ; Type : new installation of a MediaWiki extension<br /> ; Reason : Allows users to insert a handier form interface to page creation, through wikicode. There are benefits here in making the creation process easier (by automating the cut'n'paste of example syntax) and/or more generally helpful (by showing relevant instructions directly on the edit page).<br /> ; Links :<br /> :*[[Guild Wars Wiki talk:Requests for technical administration#CreateBox|community discussion]]<br /> :*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateBox#Code code] (with installation instructions within the initial comments; save the code as extensions/create.php)<br /> :*[http://www.undefined.net/w undefined.net's wiki] hosts the extension, with a [http://www.undefined.net/w/index.php?title=CreateBox/Example2 working example]<br /> :Many of the large wikis use the similar [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inputbox InputBox extension] (including all Wikia wikis and english Wikimedia sites: Meta, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikijunior, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, WikiCommons, and Wikispecies). InputBox has notably been on the [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikinews main page] for a long time and has almost always been used with the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Algorithm/actionCreate actionCreate modification] to hack on create functionality. (actionCreate has recently developed into the standalone extension, CreateBox, with extra features more suited to page creation)<br /> ; Possible pitfalls: Depending on technical limitations, certain uses might encourage misnamed articles (see community discussion).</div>

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