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 <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. For links to articles in sections on the same page it would be really
> handy if we had syntax like: [[#unity|]] which would auto-complete to
> [[#unity|unity]] for you.
>

If you feel like writing a patch, this kind of thing is called a pre-save
transform, and handled in Parser::pstPass2().


> 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).
>

That's the Variables extension [1] if you want to use it on the same page,
or the Labeled Section Transclusion extension [2] if you want to reference
it elsewhere. I doubt you end up with something that's easier to maintain,
though.


> 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.
>

https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-readability/ provides Flesch-Kincaid
scores, although not inside the page.


[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion
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