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Declaring variables

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Is there a way to declare variables on the wiki similar to: {{#vardefine:variable|variable content}}? The use case I had in mind was setting something like kernelversion=6.1.46 so that updating it on a hardware table would only require changing one thing. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables

JM01085758 (talk) 12:42, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes, you can do what the Handbook does with {{Handbook Variable}}. See the following links:

• Top of Handbook:Parts for variable definitions
• Implementation of Template:Handbook Variable
  • ChatGPT might come in handy here.
• {{Handbook Variable}} for how variables are referenced.

— Waldo Lemmer 07:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)