On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:11:23PM -0700, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 01:55 +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Do you have any particular reason to allow only 5 levels [of headings] ? That breaks backwards compatibility and reduces range of allowed options for no good reason.
Wikitexts generally end up being rendered /within/ HTML pages, and HTML has a limit of six levels anyway, so it seemed safe. But I'm not married to it. Are there really Wiki pages that use all six? I'd be surprized if any really needed even five.
Results of quick grep of pl.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org:
On a single page, 2 or 3 levels are typically used, sometimes 4, and I haven't found even one with 5 in the grep.
Pages with big leaf sections tend to use level-range about 1 level higher than pages with small leaf sections, probably for esthetic purposes, but they use the same number of levels.
Levels 2-4 are most common, then 5 and 1, level 6 is rare.
So 4 is doable, but painful, 5 is necessary not to disturb current practice too much. Throwng 1 more for special cases (like pages different from encyclopedia articles) seems sensible, but if automatic conversion is provided, not doing so probably won't cause too much troubles, at least for wikipedias.