Question

I have just started working on a wiki where I want registered users to be able to post stuff. I want to have a link on the site which says something along the lines of
“Create new Entry” which when clicked will take the user to an editing template. When the user is done filling in his information and clicks the save button I want that information to be saved in an own page.
My question: What is the approach to achieving something like this?

tag:MediaWiki   1.19.2
PHP 5.3.14 (apache2handler)
MySQL   5.1.63-0+squeeze1-log

Answer 1

I used MultiBoilerplate for this. This extension is very useful because users can select from a drop down list of templates for various pages which can contain default text which users themselves can define.

Tip: if you use the option:

$wgMultiBoilerplateOptions = false;

in LocalSettings.php then administrators can add new templates via the wiki (so without having to change any configurations in php).