This is a proposal to change how the MediaWiki software displays
subpages. This isn't really an issue over a Wikipedia because
subpages in the main namespace are disabled, but using subpages at
Wikisource is a standard way of dividing up works, leaving only a
table of contents at the root article.
The problem is that this results in pages titles like this:
United States Code/Title 35/Chapter 14/Section 151
or even
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The
Life of Constantine/Book II/Chapter 23
which IMHO looks more like a file system than a user-friendly
website. I would suggest
United States Code » Title 35 » Chapter 14 » Section 151
or my own favourite
United States Code » Title 35 » Chapter 14 »
Section 151
(With "Section 151" in bigger font.)
This would effectively involve moving the subpages div above the
title and changing the title from the entire path to just the subpage
name.
See:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Subpage_formatting
for the discussion I started on Wikisource and further down the same
page
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/
Wikisource:Scriptorium#Subpage_formatting:_some_more_examples
for some formatted versions of the above examples
and
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-
Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_I/Constantine/
The_Life_of_Constantine/Book_II/Chapter_23
and
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_on_European_Union/
Protocol_on_the_convergence_criteria_referred_to_in_Article_109j_of_the_
Treaty_establishing_the_European_Community
for examples of how ugly the current setup can be.
Michael