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Allow for brief summaries of a page
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Author: wikipedia

Description:
When editing a page, I'd like the ability to somehow provide a one sentence
summary of a page. This could be a new kind of tag or a keyword, or even a
separate edit box. Note, I'm not talking about the edit comments; I mean a
summary of the content of the page itself.

I'd like to be able to access this summary in the following ways:

  1. It should probably be used as the value of a meta name="description" tag for

the page.

  1. There should be some way to get to it with extensions (as a part of a SQL

query, for example).

  1. (Optional) There could be a way to append the description after a link.

What I'm interested in doing with my wiki is creating an extension that can
build automatic bullet lists of page links based on categories, where after each
link is a summary of what the page is. I can already get the page of links,
thanks to the DynamicPageList2 extension. I could hack this extension to include
the page summaries, if they existed; however, at present, there does not seem to
be any way to even create such summaries, much less access them.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:10 PM
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I am marking this as a duplicate of bug 59641 as it has more thoughts on how this could potentially be implemented.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 59641 ***

There are a lot of ways to do this; e.g. [[mw:Extension:BedellPenDragon]]. That extension page's FAQ has some discussion of alternatives.