Last modified: 2013-05-22 18:23:56 UTC
Allow to edit sections by name (instead of by number) and allow to create sections with previously nonexistent names as first or last sub-section of existing sections. This would, for example, allow to link to generic section names on talk pages. A template like http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Template:Comments could link to a nonexistent section and the section would be created on demand. Allowing to create nonexistent sections as sub-sections would allow to put all responses through "Template:Comments" under a common header.
Bug #9240: A parser function to query the name of enclosing sections (like {{#section-name:<section level>}}) would be useful in connection with this feature.
Just out of curiosity, where would the newly created (sub)sections be placed? Presumably at the end of a page. But that might not be the convenient/desired place.
see Bug #9242.
I'm not sure I see a clear use case for this. I also see some possible problems with respect to complex section names, non-unique section names, and I don't see how this would be presented to the user.
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(In reply to comment #4) > I'm not sure I see a clear use case for this. I also see some possible problems > with respect to complex section names, non-unique section names, and I don't > see how this would be presented to the user. Complex section names isn't really a problem as far as I'm concerned, as long as there exists a way to simplify them (which is always true since we do the same for section <a name=" anchors). As for non-unique section names, we could again use the way section anchors handle it (use section_name_2, section_name_3, section_name_n... etc.).
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