As it happens, the yearly feature wishlist collection process is taking proposals right now; you might want to check it out. [0]
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:15 PM, John Elliot V jj5@jj5.net wrote:
- For links to articles in sections on the same page it would be really
handy if we had syntax like: [[#unity|]] which would auto-complete to [[#unity|unity]] for you.
If you feel like writing a patch, this kind of thing is called a pre-save transform, and handled in Parser::pstPass2().
- 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).
That's the Variables extension [1] if you want to use it on the same page, or the Labeled Section Transclusion extension [2] if you want to reference it elsewhere. I doubt you end up with something that's easier to maintain, though.
- 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.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-readability/ provides Flesch-Kincaid scores, although not inside the page.
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion