Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-35711173-20180919185900/@comment-25428589-20180919194720

While this is technically possible using site-wide Javascript or the abuse filter, it would violate Wikia/FANDOM's customisation policy, and we wouldn't be allowed to do it. Wikia could theoretically change things on the back-end to enforce this, but I'd say it's almost certain they wouldn't bother.

On a "philosophical" level, I also this. The point of a wiki is that anyone can contribute. While it's uncommon, there are many authors whose first contribution is a new page on the main wiki, and who also contribute quality content. Jdeschene, for example, or L0CKED334 (as they pointed out above). An approach like this would force users like these to essentially pointsgame until they can contribute their own content.

I had a tangentially related (in its goal) idea I proposed to Cleric a few weeks ago, but he didn't respond. We could change the " IMPORTANT PLEASE READ " text which appears as you try to create a new page to tell users to use the writer's workshop? Currently it just talks about the visual editor, but I think it would be better put to use directing new users to think about the QS/workshop before they post. It's less extreme, and would not catch those who truly don't care, but for authors who actually want to write well, it would hopefully cause a few to think twice before posting straight away. And for the users who don't really need the workshop, it doesn't get in their way. It would be as simple as editing MediaWiki:Newarticletext.