Re: [xwiki-devs] Proposal: moving the "create wiki" and "create space" actions

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Guillaume Lerouge &lt;guillaume(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: What I read from your example above is that we can improve the create page/space/wiki UIs to have a section that does a kind of suggest to the user based on the name of the new entry he wants to create. We could have something like "The pages/spaces/wikis/etc. above already exist. Are you sure you want to create a new <userEnteredEntityName> page/space/wiki/etc. instead of using one of the above?" We could go as far as to force the user to check a checkbox before the "Create" button becomes enabled/clickable. This could either be a configuration option, based on the desire/intent/wishes of the admin of that wiki/space. With a bit of effort, this could be done consistently for the entire "/create/" action and its plugged-in template providers. This will not solve anything if the user is already too lazy to search for existing entries before creating one. The one he wishes to create might be on the second page of the livetable and the lazy user will just go ahead and create the similar entry. For this to be relatively effective in reducing duplication, we would have to implement something on the lines of what I have described above with the "reuse sugestion". I`m not particularly against this approach (of adding create options in the list), since we were already doing this at some point and in some places, but I`m still -1 for scattering the create logic in various locations instead of using the centralized "Add" menu. If we don`t, we will have 99999 pages all inside the Main space and that's it. How`s that for a wiki gardening nightmare? :) Thanks, Eduard