Help:Inputbox

The InputBox extension is a MediaWiki extension by Erik Möller that allows you to add predefined forms to Memory Alpha pages. It was originally created for the purpose of adding a Create an article box to Wikinews.

This was extended to the CreateBox extension that focuses on page creation only. If a user were to attempt to create a page that already exists, Inputbox allows the user do so, and disregards any preloaded content or edit introductions. CreateBox, by contrast, directs the user to an error page where they can enter a different page name, and all specified properties are preserved.

General syntax
Inputboxes are constructed like this:

The type parameter is mandatory. All other parameters are optional.

Parameters
Applying create  to an existing page gives an edit page. Applying comment  for a new page works, if the page already exists editintro is ignored.

The texts taken from the MediaWiki: namespace are of course only examples, any existing page can be used for editintro or preload. Unfortunately preload does not yet work for the Special:Upload summary.

Please note that variables and templates are not supported in inputbox parameters.

Preload
Preloading can be done with an inputbox (see above), but also with a URL like which links to the edit box of a new page, preloaded with.

The wikitext of the preloaded page, including noinclude parts and tags but excluding includeonly tags, is loaded into the editbox if the target page does not exist yet. If the target of the preload operation already exists then only its wikitext is loaded, the preload command is ignored.