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#229 Wiki page avoids using the template
closed-out-of-date
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2017-03-09
2011-09-03
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We have a template for wiki pages created from database pages that attempts to get people to put the proper header at the beginning. A common situation where this fails, however, is the following: (1) I click a "Biography" or "Bibliographic comments" link to create a new page; (2) It gives me the template page, but doesn't let me enter anything, because I'm not logged in; (3) I click the "log in / create account" link and log in; (4) I log in properly, and it offers me the link that says "Return to Bio:Barack Obama" (or whoever); (5) Now the page that I'm offered to edit does NOT have the template or any warning about using the header template.
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Anonymous
I'm not sure this is possible? If it is, I'd be interested in how we preserve the pre-populated template.
It might be easier to try to re-populate the template when we return to this page, rather than trying to preserve it's previous state. Can you detect, in the code, where one is when this situation occurs?
This is a MediaWiki software limitation. Short of upgrading to newer versions of MediaWiki (which sorely needs to be done), I do not think we want to change MediaWiki significantly.
This bug if it is still applicable in current versions could be propagated to the MediaWiki software project as a bug.
This bug report is out of date since we now use the "Web pages" field to link Wiki-hosted pages.