User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: March 30, 2016/@comment-3388044-20160401041205/@comment-24473195-20160401154421

The  Preloaded template seems to have been upgraded to also work with VE. Nice work.

But there's something that appears to have changed unless I'm imagining things. Originally, if someone specified something like:

abc

The redlink parameter would change the behaviour:


 * If the page already existed -> Load view mode


 * If page didn't exist -> Load with preloaded template

This comment seems to support my theory : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text#FYI:_Use_redlink.3D1_with_preload_to_change_action_modes_if_the_page_exists