On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jared Zimmerman <jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I would argue that we should prioritize section editing over full page editing, and eventually VE will have section editing, even prior to that it at least has awareness of what section you triggered the edit action from.

This is an interesting hypothesis, and is largely dependent on what type of page is most likely to be edited. I would agree with you on large pages. But large, very popular pages are often likely to be difficult to edit for other reasons, or even semi-protected. The long tail of Wikipedia articles in all languages have maybe one or two sections at best, including References. Most articles are stubs. 

In any case, I don't see that prioritization in the design of winter right now. Section edit links are very subtle visually. Also, they are moved back to the right, though A/B tests ran by Trevor suggest that putting them near the title with an icon was superior in conversion to editing.