User blog comment:Toughpigs/Create a new article - feature update launching next week/@comment-10370-20100201193147

You guys were busy on this page over the weekend! :) I'll try to catch up with responses; sorry if I miss anything...

When this is released sitewide, it'll only pop up for content namespace redlinks -- it won't show up for red links to discussion tabs, templates, images, etc. What you're seeing on the test wiki is a bug, and it's fixed with the next code release on Wednesday.

Ciencia -- Thank you for finding the bug with punctuation and accent characters. You're right, I missed that one, and I'm very grateful that you found it! Those characters actually work fine if you type them into the dialog box; the problem only shows up when you click on a redlink. I just filed a ticket to get that fixed as well. Also -- good point on ctrl+click; I'll see what we can do about that.

Beep21 -- That "improve the wiki by editing this page" message has appeared at the bottom of open edit windows for a long time now. If you haven't noticed it until now, then it's probably not a big problem. :)

Zapwire -- If this causes conflicts with a wiki that uses CreatePlate, let me know... There aren't many using CreatePlate, so the community can decide which they want to use.

Topher208 and Surgo -- For this release, there's only one standard layout. We want to see how this one works before we create a more complicated version. It's definitely possible for us to do that as a phase 2, once we see how contributors and wikis are using the single layout version.

Porter21 and Ausir -- Sure, we'll turn it off for Fallout. I agree, this feature can't compete with the huge create article system that you guys created.

More from Ciencia -- Locking down the article title for red links is a mixed bag. It would avoid the possibility of people thinking that they're editing the red link, but it can also create confusion about how the create page dialog works. Between those two, I'd rather have people understand that they can create the article title that they want. The red link on the search page has been gone for a while, and doesn't relate specifically to this project -- that's a MediaWiki message that people can change on their wiki if they want to.

I think that's everything! Thanks as always for all your ideas and questions.