David Friedland wrote:

I propose that whether and and where a TOC appears should be specified by each article using a wiki tag indicating where the TOC should appear. This would allow articles with many short sections to not have a TOC, long articles with just a few sections have a TOC, and allow article authors/editors to specify the best location for the TOC without relying upon the wiki software to presume the very top of an article is the best place.

Some examples of an implementation like this can be found at IAwiki: http://www.iawiki.net/IAwikiIA http://www.iawiki.net/TextFormattingRules

-Jason Dreyer