2017-11-17 8:15 GMT+02:00 John Elliot V <[email protected]>: > 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! :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
