Brion Vibber wrote:
For eons people have complained that "Put the text
of the new page
here." is extremely unhelpful and promotes confusion among newbies to
wiki; that it discourages people from doing anything further with the
site as they don't know what they've stumbled into; and that it
encourages a lot of useless blank, "Put the text of the new page here",
and "What does this do? FJSDIOJDFS" pages. Longer, more informative
messages have been suggested.
I like the new message, but it seems a bit more could be done. Why
not modify the script so that it will respond with an error message
if anyone attempts to submit a new article that contains the exact
text of the "newarticletext" string? No matter what message you put
in the edit box, there will still be newbies who misunderstand or
ignore the message and create useless pages, but you can make it a
little harder for them to do so.
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