On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Elliot V jj5@jj5.net wrote:
- 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).
This sounds like something that you could do with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite. Citations are really just footnotes and each can be named when defined and then reused by reference at other places in the same article. There is a example of this at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Multiple_uses_of_the_same_footnote.
Bryan