2017-11-17 8:15 GMT+02:00 John Elliot V jj5@jj5.net:
- For duplicated content it would be handy if you could define a bunch
of "variables" down the bottom of a page and then reference them from elsewhere. I am aware of templates, but those are overkill and difficult to maintain per my use case (my use case is documenting the "purpose" of a computer, I duplicate this in various places, but don't want to maintain templates for that).
Can you give an example of how these "variables" would be different from templates?
- It would be cool if for any given wiki page an "estimated reading
time" could be provided. Along with maybe a word count, character count, etc.
This is a very good idea, and I've been writing a longish proposal for this myself, which I hope to post somewhere very soon.
In the meantime, as a workaround, you can use the reading mode in Firefox for this.
Since I'm here, quick thanks to the MediaWiki community for creating such wonderful wiki software!
Thank you! :)
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