Gmaxwell points out that one issue with viewing WP on PDAs is large pages, and this has also been reported to be an occasional problem even for desktop browsers -- admittedly generally only for _very_ large pages, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WSS/ST, seemingly. It occurs to me that we _nearly_ have a fix for this: if one edits by section number, which one can do by suffixing the page URL by &action=edit§ion=N, and then previews, one gets a view of that section, by itself. Obviously there's the difficulty with finding the right section without being able to view the TOC, and the nuisance of this requiring more than one step and generating an unwanted edit box.
What I'd like to suggest, then, is an added action (or else some sort of integrated mode) to render only the lead section and TOC; and an action to render a single section, by number (as with section-editing, but without the edit box, and the separate preview step). Then, rather than #-style links in the TOC, have links to the section-view actions. As my PHP is non-existent I've no idea if this would be difficult to implement, but it doesn't sound mega-complicated. Make sense to anyone else?
Cheers, Alai.
Alai Wiki wrote:
Gmaxwell points out that one issue with viewing WP on PDAs is large pages, and this has also been reported to be an occasional problem even for desktop browsers -- admittedly generally only for _very_ large pages, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WSS/ST, seemingly. It occurs to me that we _nearly_ have a fix for this: if one edits by section number, which one can do by suffixing the page URL by &action=edit§ion=N, and then previews, one gets a view of that section, by itself. Obviously there's the difficulty with finding the right section without being able to view the TOC, and the nuisance of this requiring more than one step and generating an unwanted edit box.
What I'd like to suggest, then, is an added action (or else some sort of integrated mode) to render only the lead section and TOC; and an action to render a single section, by number (as with section-editing, but without the edit box, and the separate preview step). Then, rather than #-style links in the TOC, have links to the section-view actions. As my PHP is non-existent I've no idea if this would be difficult to implement, but it doesn't sound mega-complicated. Make sense to anyone else?
Something similar was coded back in November:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Labeled_Section_Transclusion
Alphax (Wikipedia email <alphasigmax@...> writes:
Something similar was coded back in November:
Interesting. I can see how that would be potentially helpful in some cases, such as the aforementioned stub types list. But as it requires markup of the pages being 'sliced', and of the sectionated pages transcluding on that basis, it's not as general a fix as I was hoping for. The link that Manuel Schneider posted (http://en.wikipedia.7val.com/) is much closer to what I had in mind, though it's obviously bundling together a number of things: stripping out CSS, fiddling with width formats, etc, as well as the per-section rendering. An ideal solution would make those orthogonal -- as well as serving same from Wikipedia itself.
Slan, Alai.
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