On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:45:00PM +0200, Erik
Moeller wrote:
> Robert-
> > Is it possible to use HTML <a name=""> and <a
href="#"> type
> > tags or something similar in a Wikipedia article?
>
> It has been discussed, but I think the majority does not want it,
because
> it complicates linking unnecessarily. It
would be difficult to keep
track
> of links to non-existent sections and to fix
them, and this might happen
a
> lot given how often articles are rewritten.
>
> What I, and I think most people, would find useful is an option to have
an
> automatic table of contents for every
article with more than x headlines
> (I would say x=3), which would use the headlines as position points for
<a
> name=".."> tags. But you could
not directly link to one of the sections
> from another article.
>
> Actually, you can see a similar feature in action on Sun's Javapedia:
>
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javapedia/AlwaysUseStringBufferMisconception
(Die,
CamelCase!)
Which majority doesn't want it ? Just try using Wiktionary for a moment
and you'll see why having option of linking (cross-article) to such
headings
is something that we have to implement.
I'm also FOR and I ask desperately this feature in Wikipedia for a while !
[[Foo#Bar|Text]] may be VERY nice to me.
With for exemple ##Bar to create targets.
Aoineko
It work already. Look on fr: at [[Liste des articles d'astronomie]].
What is missing is how to set the anchor (a fake <div id=anchor> work but is
painfull).
--
Luc Van Oostenryck aka Looxix