Community Wishlist Survey 2022/"Templates" for newly created wikis

Proposed by Anpang

Proposal summary: A wiki will be created with a default "template" depending on the category the person who requested the wiki has selected.

Full proposal: In the create wiki form, there is a "Category" dropdown. I'd suggest that when a wiki is created, instead of having the normal "Main Page Seems like the bureaucrat hasn't created the main page yet!", it would have some default pages depending on the wiki category.

For example, a qualitipedia like wiki would have a main page of some content and a few galleries and highligted pages.

A wiki about animals (animals will probably be a subcategory from Science) would have a favicon of an animal like a monkey, the main page would be jungle themed, and there would be an example page of an animal.

The wikis would also have some important templates like infobox and userbox preinstalled (along with the modules that make them work). Also, the user can select the template they want if they don't want the template matching their wiki's category.

Discussion

 * It would be interesting. Below is a link to all the module templates we would need for this (including making infoboxes work perfectly or nearly). I consider all of these:


 * Template:Lua
 * Template:Main other
 * Template:Nobold
 * Template:Nobold/styles.css
 * Template:For
 * Template:Parameter names example
 * Template:Sandbox other
 * Template:Sidebar
 * Template:TemplateData header
 * Template:Template link
 * Template:Template link expanded
 * Template:Template link with link off
 * Template:Template other
 * Template:Template parameter usage
 * Template:Tl
 * Template:Tlf
 * Template:Tlx
 * Template:Yesno
 * Template:Yesno-no
 * Module:Anchor
 * Module: Arguments
 * Module: Check for clobbered parameters
 * Module:Check for unknown parameters
 * Module:Citation/CS1
 * Module:Citation/CS1/COinS
 * Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration
 * Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation
 * Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers
 * Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities
 * Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist
 * Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css
 * Module: Collapsible list
 * Module:Coordinates
 * Module:Coordinates/styles.css
 * Module:Documentation
 * Module:Documentation/config
 * Module:Documentation/styles.css
 * Module: ISO 3166
 * Module:If empty
 * Module:Infobox
 * Module:Infobox/styles.css
 * Module:InfoboxImage
 * Module:Lang
 * Module:Lang/ISO 639 synonyms
 * Module:Lang/Date
 * Module:List
 * Module:Lua banner
 * Module:Math
 * Module:Message box
 * Module:Message box/configuration
 * Module:No globals
 * Module: Side box
 * Module:String
 * Module:TNT
 * Module:TableTools
 * Module:Template wrapper
 * Module:URL
 * Module:Unicode data
 * Module:Uses TemplateStyles
 * Module:Uses TemplateStyles/config
 * Module:Uses Wikidata
 * Module:Yesno


 * We can also use Special:Import from Wikipedia and Special:Export from our wiki YellowFrogger (✉ Talk  ✐ Edits ) 20:08, 21 December 2021 (UTC)


 * *Is this something don't need? Users are freed to modify both Cascading Style Sheets and changing themes and would not need a "pattern for this". If users want an animal wiki this will have normal. I discard it. Now imagine a bunch of wikis with repetitive themes? The MH icon has always been the default for this; with this standardization imposed here by you, probably the wikis would be just a copy of the others. Besides, the work it would take to organize everything properly; Miraheze is multilingual. Update: Not everyone needs an infobox on a wiki: just imagine someone who only needs a particular wiki to study, etc.? A guide/manual on adding infoboxes would be better instead. YellowFrogger (✉ Talk  ✐ Edits ) 01:26, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * But new users would still have trouble adding infoboxes, trust me. For the "Now imagine a bunch of wikis with repetitive themes?", this actually makes that point better, if this isn't added all wikis would have the same "Template", the Seems like the bureaucrat hasn't created the main page yet! <span style="display:inline-block;border:2px solid #bfff00;border-radius:8px;background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom right, #75ff75, #ffff80)"> Anpang 📨 01:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Imagine almost everyone on the same subject with the same main page, and the little work it would take to build. It would be a copy of the other. This current one is just to flag something like you installed MediaWiki now --YellowFrogger (Talk — ✐) 14:16, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Please note that substantive discussion should be avoided until the voting period begins. Discussion should be limited to whether it's in scope. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 14:20, 22 December 2021 (UTC)