On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Elliot V <[email protected]> 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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