Forum:Page templatey things and edit summary dropdowns

On some wikis there's like, boxes at the top when you create a page for what type of page it is and they give you a prebuilt page structure. Also, like on the w:c:zelda:zelda wiki, when you edit a page there's like a dropdown box letting you select an edit summary. How does one get these two things on a wiki? -- Dragonfree  OVER 4,000 EDITS 21:23, July 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * You could try w:c:help:Help:CreatePlates for new article boilerplates. I believe the drop down edit summary list is just edit summaries remembered from your previous edits. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:05 AM PST 30 Jul 2010


 * Their are several methods of creating 'proforma' or templated pages such as createplates that Fandyllic has suggested. The simplest way is just to save 'standard' page layout with all the structure but no content in a template/project space page and then copy and paste in a blank page like doing an infobox, and than fill in the data.


 * Best ask one of the admins the wiki you have seen it on how it was done on there wiki, as it will be the admins that update the pages used. In the past i looked at using the list of pre defined edit summaries idea which several of the bigger wikis used and some of it is defined in Mediawiki: pages but how its implemented i cannot remember now. It may be an extension that needs 'turning on' by staff. Often the pre defined pages they are in the 'system' space or locked templates, but some put them in project space, when i was looking at the idea. (i gave up as i found i would need so many different ones unlike most game wikis which just have a couple of main page styles, and decided to add content instead of getting more and more bogged down in coding) - BulldozerD11 17:03, July 30, 2010 (UTC)