On 11-06-17 05:24 PM, Misdre wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if the way MediaWiki handle sections (delimited by
==titles==) could be improved. We have many informations about a page
like its history, the templates used, the pages that link to it and so
on, as well as we can rename or delete it.
Currently all of these cannot be applied to a section. If we edit a
section, we do not know the templates used in this section unless we
hit the preview button (bug 878 - when you edit a page, you are shown
the list of templates used immediately). We cannot check the history
of a particular section and we have to dig through all edits of the
page.
The most cumbersome situation is when you want to watch only one
section, especially on talk pages. You have no choice but to watch the
entire page and that can be really painful.
Is there an "easy" way to improve this situation?
--misdre
Listing templates in a section could technically be done by adding a
bunch more information to the parser output.
History, watching sections, etc... I can only see be done by rewriting
things to treat a page as a collection of sections instead of a blob of
text. ie: No more using == in-text to delimit sections, they have to be
first class pieces of data edited separately.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]