Hey John,
Fellow MediaWiki lover here. I like your ideas, here are some quick
thoughts:
1. What about a template like the following
Template Name (L for link, and also short)
Template:L
Template Contents:
[[{{FULLPAGENAME}}#{{{1|}}}|{{{1|}}}]]
Template Use (where unity is a section on the page)
{{L|unity}}
If this generally works, you might want to add some more functionality like:
1. A second input if you want to change what the section reads like;
{{L|unity|alternate text}}
2. Probably some better error handling
2. Have you tried transclusion <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion>
?
3. I "think" the magic word {{REVISIONSIZE}} gives the byte size of the
article. If so, maybe you could use it with some ParserFunctions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions> to
calculate an estimated reading time?
Example:
This page will take around {{#expr: {{REVISIONSIZE}}/1000 round 1 }}
minutes to read.
Cheers,
Bryan
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2017-11-17 8:15 GMT+02:00 John Elliot V
<jj5(a)jj5.net>et>:
2. 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?
3. 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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