This is a fine idea, but I think it should be disabled by default (i.e. if someone adds those lines of code, it works… but in using the NewPage module those lines are by default not shown)

Reason — I want to make editing pages as simple as possible for new wikidot users on my website. If they see metadata at the top they might accidentally change it and cause problems. Experienced users that know how to modify meta data can still do so, just by typing in a few extra lines! :)

Then again, you've mentioned that only administrators and moderators will be able to "view" and "edit" meta data.

If the page source contains [[meta]] … [[/meta]], how will it deal with a regular user clicking 'edit' ? Will it simply show the rest of the source, but hide anything within meta tags ???

Please explain…

The following are also meta data to the page content:

• the name of the wiki
• the page category
• the page name
• user who last edited the page

The meta data should be as consistent (in content, naming, and formatting) as possible with the dictionary returned by XML API site.pages() and the 'meta' dictionary returned by page.get():

'site'

the site's name the page is from

'category'

the page's category

'name'

the page name (without the category)

'full_name'

equal to 'name' if 'category' is _default, 'category':'name' otherwise

'title'

the page title as defined by the user

'title_shown'

the page title as displayed, including any autonumbering pattern

'title_or_unix_name'

the page title ('title') if not empty, the unix name ('name') with first letter capitalized and dashes replaced by blanks otherwise

'parent_page'

the page's parent page; None if no parent page has been set

'user_created'

the name of the user who created the page

'date_created'

date and time when the page was created; format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+timezone¹

'user_edited'

the name of the user who last edited the page; None if the page is at revision 0

'date_edited'

date and time when the page was last edited; the 'date_created' date/time if the page is at revision 0; format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+timezone²

'tag_array'

a list of tags the page is tagged with

'tag_string'

a string of blank-separated tags the page is tagged with