diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/app.rb b/lib/gollum/frontend/app.rb
index b3c5197c..f30630d3 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/app.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/app.rb
@@ -344,8 +344,6 @@ module Precious
         @content = page.formatted_data
         @toc_content = wiki.universal_toc ? @page.toc_data : nil
         @mathjax = wiki.mathjax
-        # Set @path for mustache :page new_page_data_variables
-        @path = path
         mustache :page
       elsif file = wiki.file(fullpath)
         content_type file.mime_type
diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/public/gollum/javascript/gollum.js b/lib/gollum/frontend/public/gollum/javascript/gollum.js
index 5d59d7a2..f71d6f6c 100755
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/public/gollum/javascript/gollum.js
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/public/gollum/javascript/gollum.js
@@ -154,9 +154,12 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
     $('#minibutton-new-page').click(function(e) {
       e.preventDefault();
 
-      var path = $(this).data('path');
-      if (path) {
-        path = path + '/';
+      var path = location.pathname;
+      // ensure there's more than one slash in pathname.
+      if (path.split('/').length > 2) {
+        path = path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('/')+1) + '/';
+      } else {
+        path = '';
       }
 
       $.GollumDialog.init({
diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/page.mustache b/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/page.mustache
index 1936c17d..1d108a64 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/page.mustache
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/page.mustache
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     <li class="minibutton"><a href="{{base_url}}fileview"
     class="action-all-pages">Files</a></li>
     <li class="minibutton" class="jaws">
-      <a href="#" id="minibutton-new-page"{{{new_page_data_variables}}}>New</a></li>
+      <a href="#" id="minibutton-new-page">New</a></li>
     <li class="minibutton" class="jaws">
       <a href="#" id="minibutton-rename-page">Rename</a></li>
     {{#editable}}
diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/pages.mustache b/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/pages.mustache
index 6a94e4e1..8d88263f 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/pages.mustache
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/templates/pages.mustache
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <li class="minibutton"><a href="{{base_url}}"
        class="action-edit-page">Home</a></li>
     <li class="minibutton" class="jaws">
-    <a href="#" id="minibutton-new-page"{{{new_page_data_variables}}}>New</a>
+    <a href="#" id="minibutton-new-page">New</a>
     </li>
   </ul>
 </div>
diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
index 8afac5f0..84246a9d 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@ module Precious
       DATE_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
       DEFAULT_AUTHOR = 'you'
 
-      def new_page_data_variables
-        %{ data-path="#{@path}"} if @path
-      end
-
       def title
         @page.url_path.gsub("-", " ")
       end
diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/pages.rb b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/pages.rb
index e5988220..ae6a33b0 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/pages.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/pages.rb
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ module Precious
         "All pages in #{@ref}"
       end
 
-      def new_page_data_variables
-        %{ data-path="#{@path}"} if @path
-      end
-
       def breadcrumb
         if @path
           path = Pathname.new(@path)
diff --git a/test/test_pages_view.rb b/test/test_pages_view.rb
index 37fb1da2..bb4bc958 100644
--- a/test/test_pages_view.rb
+++ b/test/test_pages_view.rb
@@ -34,15 +34,4 @@ context "Precious::Views::Pages" do
     @page.instance_variable_set("@results", results)
     assert_equal %{<li><a href="/Mordor/Eye-Of-Sauron" class="file">Eye Of Sauron</a></li>\n<li><a href="/pages/Mordor/Orc/" class="folder">Orc</a></li>}, @page.files_folders
   end
-
-  test "new_page_data_variables within Home directory" do
-    assert_equal nil, @page.new_page_data_variables
-  end
-
-  test "new_page_data_variables within subdirectory" do
-    @page.instance_variable_set("@path", "Mordor")
-    assert_equal ' data-path="Mordor"', @page.new_page_data_variables
-    @page.instance_variable_set("@path", "Mordor/Eye-Of-Sauron")
-    assert_equal ' data-path="Mordor/Eye-Of-Sauron"', @page.new_page_data_variables
-  end
 end