Initially asked the question in the forums without any interest, so I am trying to see if anyone has some thoughts on http://drupal.org/node/1072454.
Hi,
Would like to ask if anyone can think how it would be possible to distinguish or log Links to Wiki Article Pages that do not yet have content in a Drupal Wiki. My current system is using wikitools where if the URL /wiki/EMPTY_PAGE_NAME is entered into browser or linked, it will go to a page to create that article.
However, I am trying to think of a way that I can tell our users which Articles are empty and need help to write content on.
I guess it will probably need some custom coding.
Really appreciate any thoughts on this.
Looking a bit deeper into it, the problem with special characters crop up to disrupt things abit. I suppose I can bar any special characters from the wiki, this would simplify things.
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Hi
Hi, we have implemented this a while ago. You have to think a bit more arround the problem, e.g. that the user has to chose a node-type when he finally creates that link. Beside that, creating links using a path ( and the title ) is a pretty faulty approach since ages, as you will have to cleanup all you backrefs when you rename ( some call it "move" ) the page later. In some wikis even proxy-pages have been introduced to deal with this issue....
In case, you rather want to link nids, not a path and use filter to expand this dynamically. In this case, those "create new" links are a bit more complicated, as you need to "find all places were a link has been create to link to this new page", and replace those with the nid you just created.
Anyway, looking the group, people tend to think that "wiki" is simple inter-linking pages and thats pretty much it. or "create pages on the fly". Whe you implement a wiki you will finally see, that this is just a minor tool of a wiki.
It is a minor feature indeed,
It is a minor feature indeed, but it's also essential. Can't imagine a wiki without that.