On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Elliot V <j...@jj5.net> wrote: > 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).
This sounds like something that you could do with <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite>. Citations are really just footnotes and each can be named when defined and then reused by reference at other places in the same article. There is a example of this at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Multiple_uses_of_the_same_footnote>. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l