The reason for the create buttons is to keep robots from creating
pages. When the creation signal was just a normal link, robots would
traverse the link and create the pages. Robots don't traverse
buttons.
Mark
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>When I am using standard Swiki, I do find that the "CREATE" buttons to be a
>real problem. I am not really sure why they are there. Might I ask what was
>the design decision that led to them?
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>As far as I remember the original way that the wikiwiki web worked you would
>type in some prose and any interesting topics would become candidates for
>future pages. These pages would not be created until someone had something to
>say about that topic. Hence the original "link to create page on a question
>mark approach."
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>I discovered that this was a configurable item in the swiki browser. So I
>experimented with a different scheme. What I do now is *Page Does Not Exist
>Yet* gets rendered into a Link, but I insert somewhat discretely a "+" sign
>in font size="-2" just after the link. In this way the user can read the
>prose and know that this link is a link to a page that does not actually
>exist yet.
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>This gives a pleasing user experience,
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>just thought I would let you know!
>
>Keith
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