typed if it exists, and searches otherwise. In the latter case,
you get a link like this at the top of the search results:
-> There is no page titled "Testing". You can create this page.
+> *There is no page titled "Testing". You can create this page.*
* wikia mediawikis have an "add a page" button that pops-up a JS
pseudo-window asking for a page name. On submission, you end
up at an edit window for the page.
-
* wikipedia now makes it quite hard to create new pages. The old
'go' button is gone, nearly all search terms end up at an actual
article, a "no results" match does not have helpful create link
options.
-
* Moin Moin has a two-button search: "Titles" and "Text". Neither
offer a "create page" option for 0-match searches.
-
* the original c2.com wiki has no helpful link for this either.
So - the direction of travel would appear to be *away* from having
* Extend the search results page to include a "create this page" link,
perhaps toggleable, perhaps only if the search term matches some
criteria for what makes a sensible page name
-
* Some combination of JamesWestby's "create" plugin, extracting the
- current stuff inside [[ikiwiki/plugins/inline]] (see also:
+ current stuff inside [[plugins/inline]] (see also:
[[more flexible inline postform]]) -- more generally, rationalising
where that code lives so it can be used in more contexts.
-
* documenting the `inline` hack above (which I use extensively on my
- private wikis, by the way!) as a [[tip]].
+ private wikis, by the way!) as a [[tip|tips]].
-- [[Jon]]