Kurt Jansson wrote in part:
In short: Anchors are subpages through the backdoor. If an article is so long that it really needs anchors: split it! Shorten it and put the delailed parts in their own articles.
I agree with Kurt, for the reasons that he gave in the post following this one.
If we (hmm, I mean: the coders) decide to implemented the index function and everybody is still unhappy, then we could think about anchors *inside* an article (but I doubt that it's worth another tag).
However, I think that these internal anchors would be a very good idea. There's many a time that I've wanted to use them, but never external anchors.
-- Toby