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 <
[email protected]> wrote:
> 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! :)
>
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