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
<bry...@tegnosis.wiki> wrote:
> 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.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
>> 2017-11-17 8:15 GMT+02:00 John Elliot V <j...@jj5.net>:
>>
>> > 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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