Question

Is it possible to create a wiki page, where you mark a single piece of text as a placeholder which can be put anywhere else on the wiki?

Let’s say I have a wiki page containing a simple list. The first item in list must be always shown in the Main Page but the editing user should not edit two pages for that, just one page.

The list page:

Pineapples

{{SaveThisText|TodaysMeal|Dumplings}}

Beans

Oranges

Main Page:

Today, we'll have {{GetSavedText|TodaysMeal}}

…Main Page will result to “Today, we’ll have Dumplings”

I know that it is possible to do this using templates but I want to avoid them, I want to edit the template like it’s a part of page.

Answer 1

You can do this without writing any custom PHP, see:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables