https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25348

           Summary: Multiple new page layouts
           Product: MediaWiki
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Page editing
        AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
        ReportedBy: ville...@iki.fi


When starting a new article the wiki should ask the user what kind of an
article are they creating and load an appropriate layout. In essence my point
is that the MediaWiki:Newpagelayout serves nobody as most if not all wikis have
articles of several types. 

Consider a wiki about a TV series. They have articles about seasons, episodes
and individual characters. That's at least three different layouts. New
contributors of the wiki cannot be of any help in creating new articles because
they don't know about the {{season}}, {{episode}} and {{character}} templates
used. At most they create an article stub which has to be completely rewritten
and templated by some experienced user. With multiple new page layouts they
would at least stand a chance on creating something useful when the layouts
would load the appropriate template and its parameters for them to fill.

My proposed solution is that in addition to the current MediaWiki:Newpagelayout
the pages MediaWiki:Newpagelayout# and MediaWiki:Newpagelayouttitle# are
deployed. Here, # would be a number from 1 to 9. When creating a new article
the wiki would ask: "What kind of an article are you creating?
{{:MediaWiki:Newpagelayouttitle1}}, {{:MediaWiki:Newpagelayouttitle2}}, None of
these?" The texts would be links which would deploy the associated
MediaWiki:Newpagelayout# as the basis for the new article. The last link, "None
of the above", would of course use the current default MediaWiki:Newpagelayout.
All those links would be loaded only if those special articles existed. If only
the regular Newpagelayout existed then there would be nothing to prompt and
that layout should be loaded without questions.

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