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Perhaps I'm just too stupid to find the proper way to do this, but how
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would I add a new page to the wiki without selecting to edit an already
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installed one and frobbing the URL to direct to the to-be-created page?
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--[[ThomasSchwinge]]
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Good point. Of course one way is to start with creating a link to the page,
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which also helps prevent orphans. But other wikis based on CGI do have this
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a bit easier, since they can detect an attempt to access a nonexistant page
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and show an edit page. Ikiwiki can't do that (unless its web server is
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configured to do smart things on a 404, like maybe call ikiwiki.cgi which
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could be modified to work as a smart 404 -> edit handler).
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> Since this todo was opened, the [[plugins/404]] plugin has been added;
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> it does exactly that. Only if you have Apache, at the moment, though. --[[smcv]]
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Some wikis also provide a UI means for creating a new page. If we can find
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something good, that can be added to ikiwiki's UI. --[[Joey]]
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Hmm, maybe just a preprocessor directive that creates a form inside a page,
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like is used for blog posting already would suffice? Then the main page of
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a wiki could have a form for adding new pages, if that directive were
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included there. Won't work for subpages though, unless the directive were
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added to the parent page. However, unconnected subpages are surely an even
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rarer thing to want than unconnected top level pages. --[[Joey]]
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> Here is a simple plugin that does that. Perhaps options could be added to
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> it, but I couldn't really think of any.
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> <http://jameswestby.net/scratch/create.diff>
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> -- JamesWestby
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> For what it's worth, the following works:
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> `\[[!inline pages=!* rss=no atom=no postform=yes postformtext="Add a new page titled:"]]`
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> Add `rootpage=/` if you do this in `index.mdwn` to avoid creating subpages.
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> --[[JeremieKoenig]]
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Maybe a very simple PHP frontend for serving the
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statically generated pages, that would display a page editing form or
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something like that for non-existent pages, wouldn't be too bad a thing
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and resource hog? Just a thought... --[[Tuomov]]
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----
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A quick round-up of how other wikis address this problem:
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* mediawiki *used* to Offer a search box with two buttons: 'Go'
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and 'Search'. 'Go' brought you to a page with the name you
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typed if it exists, and searches otherwise. In the latter case,
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you get a link like this at the top of the search results:
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> *There is no page titled "Testing". You can create this page.*
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* wikia mediawikis have an "add a page" button that pops-up a JS
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pseudo-window asking for a page name. On submission, you end
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up at an edit window for the page.
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* wikipedia now makes it quite hard to create new pages. The old
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'go' button is gone, nearly all search terms end up at an actual
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article, a "no results" match does not have helpful create link
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options.
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* Moin Moin has a two-button search: "Titles" and "Text". Neither
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offer a "create page" option for 0-match searches.
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* the original c2.com wiki has no helpful link for this either.
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So - the direction of travel would appear to be *away* from having
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"new page" functionality.
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I would suggest the following for ikiwiki:
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* Extend the search results page to include a "create this page" link,
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perhaps toggleable, perhaps only if the search term matches some
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criteria for what makes a sensible page name
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* Some combination of JamesWestby's "create" plugin, extracting the
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current stuff inside [[plugins/inline]] (see also:
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[[more flexible inline postform]]) -- more generally, rationalising
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where that code lives so it can be used in more contexts.
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* documenting the `inline` hack above (which I use extensively on my
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private wikis, by the way!) as a [[tip|tips]].
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-- [[Jon]]
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