Preamble

At the moment, most of the wikis have an help desk (en · de · it · ... ) or many similar places designed by the community to reach human beings with little or no experience about MediaWiki.

All of them share the FDUS problem (you know, the well-known "forgot damn user signature" problem).

Description of the issue

The forgot damn user signature problem happens when an user submits a new section without using the damn user signature (--~~~~). This can happen for various reasons:

• the user does not understand wikitext
• the user has not noticed the meaning of the signature button
• the user has not remembered it

Tired of the constant lack of users' signature, communities designed weird automagic systems to help users, often prefilling the textarea with weird wikitext, creating something that can be even more complicated to use for a newbie (de · it).

At the moment MediaWiki supports some HTTP parameters to do some magic things, for example to create a new section.

Most of wikis ....