[Wikipedia-l] Re: Numbered section headings within an article

[Toby Bartels]

Presumably Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

>That's another thing to think about.  BTW, I implemented page
>fragment links (e.g., [[Chemistry#history]], which links to
>[[##history]] on the Chemistry page), though I haven't made much
>noise about it because I'm still not sure they're needed--for one
>thing, they encourage long pages, and I don't like my syntax.  But
>headings do seem like a natural match there.

This is great!  I've wanted this a few times lately.
I agree that the specifics of implementation are problematic.
Perhaps you could render [[##history]] as <a name="history">history</a>,
with the option for [[##history|herstory]] as <a name="history">herstory</a>?
That would make usage a bit more natural, from my point of view.

Also, you could force the URL to have the first letter captitalised,
for the same reason as in linking between articles.
Then [[Chemistry#history]] could render as
<a href="http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Chemistry#History">history</a>,
while [[##History]] renders as <a name="History">History</a>.
But the important thing is to have the feature at all.


-- Toby Bartels
   toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu