[Wikipedia-l] Please help test new features

Stan Shebs shebs at apple.com
Wed Jul 2 20:13:55 UTC 2003


Erik Moeller wrote:

>The following features are currently tested on
>        http://test.wikipedia.org :
>
>* Automatic table of contents. A TOC-table is added to pages that contain  
>more than three headings. This table links to the individual sections  
>within the article and hopefully makes navigation easier.
>
The TOC should be just above the first section heading.  Otherwise
the lead paragraph, the one that tells you what the article is
actually about, can be pushed down so far it's completely off the
initial screen, which is bad.  As a reader, I'm only interested
in the TOC when I've read the lead and decided that this article
is the one I'm looking for; at that point my eyes will be at the
end of the lead, and a TOC at that point helps me decide between
reading the whole article or just jumping to a section of special
interest.

It would be cool if sidebar vs main flow was a preference.

Stan







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