On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:45:00PM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:
Robert-
Is it possible to use HTML <a name=""> and <a href="#"> type tags or something similar in a Wikipedia article?
It has been discussed, but I think the majority does not want it,
because
it complicates linking unnecessarily. It would be difficult to keep
track
of links to non-existent sections and to fix them, and this might happen
a
lot given how often articles are rewritten.
What I, and I think most people, would find useful is an option to have
an
automatic table of contents for every article with more than x headlines (I would say x=3), which would use the headlines as position points for
<a
name=".."> tags. But you could not directly link to one of the sections from another article.
Actually, you can see a similar feature in action on Sun's Javapedia:
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javapedia/AlwaysUseStringBufferMisconception
(Die, CamelCase!)
Which majority doesn't want it ? Just try using Wiktionary for a moment and you'll see why having option of linking (cross-article) to such
headings
is something that we have to implement.
I'm also FOR and I ask desperately this feature in Wikipedia for a while ! [[Foo#Bar|Text]] may be VERY nice to me. With for exemple ##Bar to create targets.
Aoineko