A member of my team found a solution: querystring argument redlink=1. It's documented here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text#Preloading_from_redlinks
Larry Silverman Chief Technology Officer TrackAbout, Inc. On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Larry Silverman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for a quick or clever method to achieve the following: > > Site A (not a wiki) has a "Create page" link to the wiki to create a new > page and pre-fill it with a template. > > But if the wiki page already exists (does not actually need to be > created), what I really want to have happen is to have the user get > redirected to the page in Read mode, not Edit mode. > > Is there a way to construct a URL such that mediawiki will check if the > page already exists, and upon an edit request, redirect instead to the Read > page? > > Thanks! > > Larry > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
