The MultiBoilerplate extension allows a boilerplate to be selected from a drop down box located above the edit form. By default, this shows only on creation of new pages. When loading a boilerplate, it will completely replace whatever text is already in the edit form.
Version 2.2.0 and later requires MediaWiki >= 1.35.
See the regular installation instructions for MediaWiki extensions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions#Installing_an_extension
The main configuration is of the available boilerplates; this is done either:
- through
$wgMultiBoilerplateOptionsinLocalSettings.php, by filling the $wgMultiBoilerplateOptions array with a list of boilerplate names that correspond to templates, like so:
$wgMultiBoilerplateOptions[ "My Boilerplate" ] = "Template:My Boilerplate"; - Or through system message
MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate, which uses the following format:
My Boilerplate|Template:My Boilerplate-
You can also create headers to separate boilerplates, which will be transformed to option groups in the edit form drop down. For example:
== Pretty Templates ==
- My Boilerplate|Template:My Boilerplate
== Ugly Templates ==
- Their Boilerplate|Template:Their Boilerplate
- My Boilerplate|Template:My Boilerplate
== Ugly Templates ==
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The template pages may also be represented by links, just for convenience, e.g.:
* My Boilerplate|[[Template:My Boilerplate]]
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$wgMultiBoilerplateOverwrite: false by default. If true, shows the boilerplates dropdown even on pre-existing page. The selected boilerplate will completed overwrite the current contents.
- Select a boilerplate from a dropdown above the edit form
- View the configured boilerplates at
Special:MultiBoilerplates
See CHANGELOG.md for a complete change log.
Originally by Robert Leverington (minuteelectron), with additional contributions by Al Maghi, Dror S [FFS] and Jhf2442. See the commit log for a full list of contributers.