Reusing content has always been key to our movement: from basic features such as templates and free licenses, to entire projects such as Commons and Wikidata. Reusing content fosters collaboration, reduces maintenance, increases content quality and more.
But what about reusing sections, tables, lists, galleries and other such elements? To this end I developed a template called Excerpt, which is now being used in thousands of English and Spanish articles, and 16 more Wikipedias are following.
In this talk, I'd like to share this technique with the larger Wikimedia movement, tell a bit about its past and origins, show some of its beautifully varied present usage, and convey some of its huge future potential.