Re: [Wikitech-l] links to non-existent #sections

Amir Ladsgroup wrote: There's also this database report: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DBR/Broken_section_anchors> Fixing broken section anchors is difficult as it typically requires human judgment. Some cases are trivial (section heading was lightly edited), but many cases require re-thinking where the redirect is targeted to altogether. For example, "No good deed goes unpunished" points to "The road to hell is paved with good intentions#Similar aphorisms", but that section is now completely removed from the article as is any mention of that phrase. Perhaps the redirect should point elsewhere, perhaps it should be deleted, etc. In other cases, it sometimes makes sense to revert the section heading change as it was wrong and sometimes it makes sense to add an additional {{anchor}} in order to support the == heading == and alternate plausible anchors to the same section. Implementing artificial intelligence to resolve broken section anchors is... difficult. :-) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Redirect_table has rd_fragment. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pagelinks_table does not have a similar field. A fragment field for pagelinks would probably only make sense if we also tracked individual link instances on a particular page. Currently it's binary tracking (page links to another page or not). MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l