Board Thread:Ask the Staff/@comment-23880286-20150604134412

Could the Mediawiki extension Variables be enabled on this wiki? At least, if it works for strings as well. I think it does but all examples on the Mediawiki page are with numbers.

The reason why I think this is needed is because I'm busy with this. If you click edit you'll notice that there's this huge and completely messy code. Around 70% of it is just repetition. If those repeated things could just be stored in variables, this repetition could be removed. Because it's just impossible to work with something this messy.

The function of that test I'm working on is that it should allow the Episode and Transcript templates to work without user input about what episode comes next or before or what episode the page is for. This is not necessarily necessary, but I think it would be nice nonetheless. It's impossible to do without variables though because it gets completely messy.

I don't know where to request this exactly, so I hope someone on this wiki does. This is only needed if it works for strings as well by the way. Otherwise it's completely useless, for this project at least. I think it works for strings but I'm not 100% sure. 