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| midnite wrote: | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables
It seems {{#vardefine:variablename|specifiedvalue}} and {{#var:variablename}} do not define and retrieving variablename in the Gentoo Wiki User Page.
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The Gentoo wiki does not have this extra extension installed. I would not suggest adding it with that big warning on the top of the help page either.
#set and #show Parser Functions are part of Semantic MediaWiki and need a SMW property created to save its data.
This is only truly worth the effort to reuse those values over other pages, and really, many of them.
The Handbook is a bit special. It uses various inclusion features to not repeat itself over and over.
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midnite
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Hi grknight,
Thank you for reply and explanation.
May I ask as the SMW is set up in the Handbook namespace, it is possible to reuse the #set and #show Parser Functions in the User namespace?
On the other hand, I have studies the ParserFunctions below. They work in the User namespace. But it seems that there is no syntax to set and get a variable. Without variable, their functions are quite limited.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
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midnite,
Its worth asking/discussing in #gentoo-wiki on libera IRC too.
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