This has been in place since Magnus's software.
I didn't know this. Can you show me some pages where it is used?
Any page--it's a user choice, not an author choice. I'm open to the possibility of making it an author choice (I like the == # == syntax), but for now you either get it on every page or none based on your preferences, and it follows the normal heading tags. 0
Actually, after some discussion (on wikitech-l, I think it was) I made the numbering more flexible: There need to be different headings in the article for this to work, a single kind won't do. That is because some people decided to use headings for large fonts and nothing else :-(
And it has to be turned on in your preferences, of course.
For testing, try [[Signal transduction]].
Magnus
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This has been in place since Magnus's software.
I didn't know this. Can you show me some pages where it is used?
Any page--it's a user choice, not an author choice. I'm open to the possibility of making it an author choice (I like the == # == syntax), but for now you either get it on every page or none based on your preferences, and it follows the normal heading tags. 0
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Magnus Manske wrote:
For testing, try [[Signal transduction]].
Excellent! I didn't know this existed.
However, there is a difference between my suggestion and this implementation, and it isn't the numbering of the headings. Rather, it is the table-of-contents or "article outline" that my suggest includes at the very top of the article. This is something you can see at the top of http://susning.nu/Schack and also in the user interface of http://encarta.msn.com/ (try to search for Rome, and go to that article).
Stealing user interface ideas from Encarta is not a crime. Or if it is, claim you stole them from me instead.
Now, the need to switch the French, German, and other non-English Wikipedias over to the new software got even stronger. Please hurry.
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