Forum:Grab text from other pages without templates

The wiki I'm working on is The Puzzles Wiki: http://puzzles.wikia.com/wiki/Puzzles_Wiki.

On the wiki there's a glossary of terms, and I want to be be able to do this on articles:

&#123;{Glossary|word-needing-defined-typed-here}}

...and this on the Template:Glossary page:

&#91;[Glossary#|&lt;abbr title="" style="cursor: help;border-bottom: 1px dotted;"> ]]

Instead of though I want it to grab the definition of the word from the glossary page. Is this possible?  neochronomo [ T ⁞ C ]    02:17, June 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Not with wikitext, although it can be done with Ajax. However, Ajax takes time to load, so it'll be missing from the page for a few seconds every time you load it up. Ajax also requires JavaScript, so users who have JS disabled won't be able to see it.

 neochronomo [ T ⁞ C ]    03:22, June 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you maybe know of any alternatives? Is there a way to achieve the effect I'm aiming for through different means?


 * Not that I know of. You're best off just using the template as the glossary page - whenever you want to update the glossary, update the template instead.

 neochronomo [ T ⁞ C ]    01:41, June 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * I just disabled my javascript and found that standard things on wikia (e.g. buttons) don't function, so if those don't even work without it I think it would be safe to use the Ajax method on this. I'll also link the words to the glossary page though, just in case. Thanks for your help!