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.
It goes like (link in Foo about language C): Foo: ... .... ... ... ... [[Bar]] ... ...
Bar: === A language === ... ...... .... .... ....
=== B language === ........... ..... ....... .... .......
=== C language === ... ...... ... ...... ... ... ....
=== D language === ...... .... ..... ...... .... .....
Click, and it goes to "Bar#A language" Design disaster.