On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Elliot V <jj5(a)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
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