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Here's what we really need:

near the 'new' button, a dropdown button 'new from template', suggesting a list of pre-configured templates. These would copy an existing article (=template) with content, tags, maybe subscribers into a new page and open it for edit.

(Justification: we are doing serious organizational design around FB wiki. Templates would be like 'procedure', 'investigation', 'meeting summary', etc).

Fog Creek Case FC1931671

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Thanks for the feedback! I have opened a case to consider this feature for a future release. Please up-vote this question to show your support for adding this feature.

In the meantime, I recommend creating a script which uses the XML API to create new articles for you with a template. (see cmd=newArticle here)

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I don't think this scratches the specific itch you have, but in FogBugz 8 we have added the idea of having a "Default Template" (i.e., specifying which template new wikis will use by default when they're created), and also the ability to make copies of templates.

It sounds like you're looking for the ability to specify a template per-article, but within the same wiki. We haven't added that functionality, but, as @adambox said, we do have a case open internally to consider it.

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While this is certainly good news, it wouldn't still let me do (even with massive workaround efforts) what we need. What could do 90% of the job is a simple copy function (within the same wiki) of a page into a new one. – Pavel Radzivilovsky Aug 22 2010 at 10:30
If I'm understanding you correctly, that functionality does exist via the Wiki Article Info: Details plugin: fogcreek.com/FogBugz/plugins/… When you're looking at a wiki article, if you click on the "Info" link in the upper-right corner you should see the option for copying a wiki page there (in the row labeled "Actions"). – db♦ Aug 23 2010 at 13:37
That copy link only allows copying to a different wiki. So you could do that, rename it, then move it back also via "info". Ugh. I think the suggested feature is pretty standard in polished wiki software such as FB, where is it? – Jared Oct 1 2010 at 17:32
Sorry...I didn't fully appreciate what you were trying to do. Copying to a different wiki, renaming, etc. definitely isn't worth the trouble. Short of us adding this directly to FogBugz, this might make for a really slick plugin. Then again, having more the more powerful/polished functionality baked in would obviously be even slicker. – db♦ Oct 2 2010 at 17:46
@db, I have to say "naaah. those are definitely two different itches." The Wiki article templates in this suggested feature (which I really really would use!!) are templates for new articles. i.e. useful initial content instead of "This article has not been written.". The templates that you are referring to aren't really templates (starting points for articles), in my view, they are display wrappers. – PJM Nov 16 at 18:43

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