Forum:Can we make the Create Recipe Page Template extendable? (from Healthy Recipes Wiki)

The healthy recipe wiki has a great way (IMO) to create new pages. When creating a new page you can choose from three templates:
 * 1) Create Ingredient
 * 2) Create Recipe
 * 3) Create Blank Page

They (the first two) provide fields for users to fill out for the specific type of page they are creating. In the case of creating a new recipe, it directs you to specify things like recipe name, ingredients and prep time.

I wonder if it is possible to make this extension generic so that other wikis could use it for their own purpose. For example, this wiki has pages for teaching activities. It would be great to provide a template to guide users when creating a new lesson activity. I sure many wikis would find this functionality very useful.

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I looked into the recipe wiki to see how they were doing it. It looks like they have a custom Extension (Recipes Template, by Maciej Brencz). I don:t know much else as I have not been able to get any google results on it.

cheers,

--boy.pockets (talk ・ my boom) 03:01, October 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * It is probably best to ask in the recipes wiki for information on how it works from the creator or the sites admins. You may be able to get them to create a generic version to use on other wikis, or tell you how to do it. - BulldozerD11 03:13, October 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Similar functionality is available using the Semantic Forms extension, which is disabled by default but can be enabled by request. You can see some examples at the Our Brant wiki I administrate, which uses the forms in the "Contribute" menu to the left to create pages in community pages like Paris and Oakland. The cemetery data (e.g., Fairfield cemetery and others) is entered and queried using the semantic extensions too. Mistydemeo 15:48, October 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Similar functionality is available using the Semantic Forms extension, which is disabled by default but can be enabled by request. You can see some examples at the Our Brant wiki I administrate, which uses the forms in the "Contribute" menu to the left to create pages in community pages like Paris and Oakland. The cemetery data (e.g., Fairfield cemetery and others) is entered and queried using the semantic extensions too. Mistydemeo 15:48, October 1, 2010 (UTC)