Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

2017-11-18 Thread Gergo Tisza
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 wrote: > 1. For links to articles in sections on the same page it would be really > handy if we had

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

2017-11-17 Thread Bryan Davis
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Elliot V wrote: > 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

2017-11-16 Thread Prateek Saxena
I have a very dumb script in my common.js for this, look for '// Reading time' in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prtksxna/common.js —prtksxna On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Bryan Hilderbrand wrote: > Hey John, > > Fellow MediaWiki lover here. I like your ideas,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

2017-11-16 Thread Bryan Hilderbrand
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

2017-11-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2017-11-17 8:15 GMT+02:00 John Elliot V : > 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

[Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

2017-11-16 Thread John Elliot V
Hey there. I love MediaWiki and have been using it everywhere for years. Recently I've been doing some rather major documentation and I realised there were three features which would be really handy for me (if these or similar already exist I would love to know!): 1. For links to articles in