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[Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features
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 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. 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). 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. Since I'm here, quick thanks to the MediaWiki community for creating such wonderful wiki software! Regards, John Elliot V -- E: j...@jj5.net P: +61 4 3505 7839 W: https://www.jj5.net/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features
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 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 Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features
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
?
3. I "think" the magic word {{REVISIONSIZE}} gives the byte size of the
article. If so, maybe you could use it with some 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 :
>
> > 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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> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
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> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features
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, 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
> ?
>
> 3. I "think" the magic word {{REVISIONSIZE}} gives the byte size of the
> article. If so, maybe you could use it with some 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 :
>>
>> > 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
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