User blog comment:Toughpigs/Create a new article - feature update launching next week/@comment-10370-20100401221218

I've been looking at the pre-formatted pages, and wondering if it's actually working or not. I've also seen some people not replacing or deleting the section headings.

It's hard to give people a suggested format in a way that actually gets them to use it properly. We used to have elements on the starter kit that said "Welcome to (Wiki Name)", and we saw people replacing the text but keeping the parentheses -- "Welcome to (Parakeet Wiki)". People tend to copy whatever you put in, sometimes even if it says "Replace this text".

I don't think HTML comments are the right answer -- those won't appear in the WYSIWYG editor, which is what new contributors are using. I'm still thinking about the right way to do this.

I'd appreciate hearing more thoughts and feedback about how the pre-formatted pages are working on the wikis...