[Wikipedia-l] Please help test new features

[Daniel Mayer]

Stan wrote:
>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.  

I agree completely. Take a look at how ugly and
unusable this is: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be . 

>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.

Yep.

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

It would be really cool if the TOC were placed
entirely in the sidebar or at the very least after the
intro section (either way we would have to encourage
short headings or the result will be over-widened
pages on low res screens).

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)


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