https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27311

--- Comment #9 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Rough estimate of work involved: very high.

Well, sure, it's possible to make any project overly complicated. Sometimes
there's a distinct advantage to doing so.

In this case, however, I don't think it's a particularly involved project.

> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_creation_workflow

Most of this isn't really relevant here. Again, yes, it's certainly possible to
set up user tests and queues and solicit user feedback via large smiley faces
and do all kinds of craziness, but that isn't what's being requested here. If
the Wikimedia Foundation wants to pursue all of that, that's its prerogative,
of course.

For MediaWiki core, it isn't unreasonable to assume that there be a
Special:CreatePage interface that accepts a title input and a textarea input.
There are a few complicating details, as Daniel mentioned in comment 6, but
even those are mostly trivially solvable. You can either ask for a title before
getting started or you can simply provide a warning-free textarea (and only
warn post-attempted save).

I envision something like Special:CreatePage with a title and textarea, a
second "Review your new page" page (with suggestions like adding wikilinks to
build the web, and a final submission page.

Honestly, there's little that could be done to make the page creation process
worse than it already is. Nearly anything would be an improvement.

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