[Wikipedia-l] Please help test new features

[David Levinson]

I think the Table of Contents feature will be very helpful, and will 
become more so as articles grow in length. I commend the developers. It 
makes the wikipedia look more professional and authoritative, and will 
help immensely with the writing of  organized articles. It will also 
encourage the proper use of headings.  Text before the TOC is also a in 
general good thing, but that probably should be user configurable. The 
introduction of anchors also helps.

  A simple <notoc> tag to allow authors to have articles avoid 
displaying the table (for whatever reason, like the Main Page, or 
others) should suffice. Similarly, a preference for logged in users 
would take care of the rest who really hate it.  Since it is a good 
idea, requiring a positive affirmation of a toc, that is a <toc> tag  
for every article, will require significant editing and touching of 
130000+ entries that would be better spent on content.

== Comments on features ==

=== Numbering ===
The numbering is awkward since the headings aren't numbered, maybe the 
TOC should be bulleted, or maybe headings should be numbered, I prefer 
bulleting the TOC to numbering the headings.

=== Size of text box ===
The area taken by the shaded box probably ought to extend across the 
screen, rather than be in a fixed size box, see 
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be for a really ugly outcome of the 
current implementation (especially when the screen is narrow), which I 
am sure can be fixed.

=== Repeat article title ===
The Table of contents probably should repeat the article title, e.g. 
"Table of contents - Philosophy"

=== List of tables ===
A list of tables and list of figures would also help.

== Signature ==
David Levinson
dlevinson AT mn DOT rr DOT com