[Wikipedia-l] Please help test new features

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 4 17:49:39 UTC 2003


Erik wrote:
> Daniel - 
>> It would be /real/ nice to be able to disable the TOC 
>> on a page by page basis.
>
>Please give other examples than the Main Page.

Eh? The en.wiki Main Page and Main Page's of each of the other languages are 
the most visited and visible pages. If their formatting is broken by the 
automatic TOC then that is a big problem - no need to state other examples 
but I'm sure there will be. 

All I am asking for is an off switch that can be used on a case-by-case basis. 
And shouldn't the burden of proof be on the person wanting to make the 
change? Shouldn't they be the one proving that the major change they are 
trying to push through will do no harm and in fact be an enhancement? 

>Anyway, the TOC is not displayed on the Main Page.

Is that from a lack of having more than three headings or a special setting? 
If it is a special setting then at least my major issue with the TOC has been 
taken care of already. But if the reason why there is no TOC on the test wiki 
is simply from a lack of headings then we are going to have problems with the 
real wikis which /do/ have many headings. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)



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