Forum:Page skeleton templates

I'm planning on building a wiki which will have a large number of pages with an identical structure -- this is a good example of the sort of thing I'm thinking off. Basically, lots of repetitive layout that'd I'd love to be able to toss into a template capable of parsing data -- including lists -- entered by users and displaying it under the appropriate headings.

Is such a thing possible? -- Koschei 00:44, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * My wiki has most pages with rigid, identical layouts. We use templates for some things, but for many things what we do is define a preload -- which is just a normal wiki page, but it has all the sections already written. And then at various points we put stuff like "Insert your text here". Then we use the input box extension to let people make new pages, and the new page starts with that preload already in the edit box. Not sure if that helps you or not (I couldn't completely parse your question), but it's how we solve the problem. Surgo 04:58, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Also you could look into using createplates (dunno link, look for yourself :P) or Semantic Forms. 16:42, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ooh, CreatePlates is kind of like an extension I was trying to make myself. Any way I could get it enabled on my wiki too? Surgo 18:17, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Some staff said that this extension could eventually get remove from Wikia as new code would be incompatible with it. But, maybe they could provide better way... or it is already the semantic thing... yeah, that seems so. — TulipVorlax 08:43, January 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * I couldn't quite understand your message, but we already have (and use) Semantic Forms. We need something else for the majority of pages. Surgo 16:05, January 16, 2010 (UTC)