On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:07:07 +1000, Netocrat wrote: ^^^ Should have been "not set", but since I misinterpreted the purpose of that preference, I'm not surprised the patch received no attention. Here's a new patch that deals solely with suppressing TOC/heading auto-numbering when a __NOTOCNUM__ directive is included in the page. Same reasoning as originally (e.g. for FAQ pages where deprecated answers are removed but new content should not reuse that answer's number): Let me know if there's a more appropriate place to submit this. Index: includes/Parser.php =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/wikipedia/phase3/includes/Parser.php,v retrieving revision 1.533 diff -u -r1.533 Parser.php --- includes/Parser.php 27 Nov 2005 06:04:41 -0000 1.533 +++ includes/Parser.php 29 Nov 2005 14:09:35 -0000 @@ -2708,6 +2708,11 @@ function formatHeadings( $text, $isMain=true ) { global $wgMaxTocLevel, $wgContLang, $wgLinkHolders, $wgInterwikiLinkHolders; + # do not number TOC entries or corresponding headings if the string + # __NOTOCNUM__ (not case-sensitive) occurs in the HTML + $mw =& MagicWord::get( MAG_NOTOCNUM ); + $noTocNum = $mw->matchAndRemove( $text ); + $doNumberHeadings = $this->mOptions->getNumberHeadings(); $doShowToc = true; $forceTocHere = false; @@ -2836,16 +2841,18 @@ $levelCount[$toclevel] = $level; - # count number of headlines for each level - @$sublevelCount[$toclevel]++; - $dot = 0; - for( $i = 1; $i <= $toclevel; $i++ ) { - if( !empty( $sublevelCount[$i] ) ) { - if( $dot ) { - $numbering .= '.'; + if (! $noTocNum ) { + # count number of headlines for each level + @$sublevelCount[$toclevel]++; + $dot = 0; + for( $i = 1; $i <= $toclevel; $i++ ) { + if( !empty( $sublevelCount[$i] ) ) { + if( $dot ) { + $numbering .= '.'; + } + $numbering .= $wgContLang->formatNum( $sublevelCount[$i] ); + $dot = 1; } - $numbering .= $wgContLang->formatNum( $sublevelCount[$i] ); - $dot = 1; } } } Index: languages/Language.php =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/wikipedia/phase3/languages/Language.php,v retrieving revision 1.741 diff -u -r1.741 Language.php --- languages/Language.php 28 Nov 2005 23:56:35 -0000 1.741 +++ languages/Language.php 29 Nov 2005 14:09:56 -0000 @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ # ID CASE SYNONYMS MAG_REDIRECT => array( 0, '#REDIRECT' ), MAG_NOTOC => array( 0, '__NOTOC__' ), + MAG_NOTOCNUM => array( 0, '__NOTOCNUM__' ), MAG_FORCETOC => array( 0, '__FORCETOC__' ), MAG_TOC => array( 0, '__TOC__' ), MAG_NOEDITSECTION => array( 0, '__NOEDITSECTION__' ), -- http://members.dodo.com.au/~netocrat