Last modified: 2007-09-06 18:37:08 UTC
Similar to the __NOTOC__ or __NOEDITSECTION__ magic words, add a magic word __NONUMBERDHEADINGS__ which inhibts section headers to be numbered even if a user has selected numbering. The main page of the Wikipedia for the ripuarian languages, http://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houpsigk is a sample of a page which should not have numbers added to headings. Another such case would be a page which has only numbers in its headings, such as e.g. year numbers.
Created attachment 2855 [details] Adds __NONUMBEREDHEADINGS__ magic word Inhbits numbered headings if magic word __NONUMBEREDHEADINGS__ is present. I haven't tested this one.
Created attachment 3137 [details] NONUMBEREDHEADINGS magic word, v2 Version 2, to be current with newer quickUserCan() change
I'm not sure if I like the existing precedent of options which give editors control over content appearance; we have markup and style sheets separate for a reason. If a user wishes to view the entire Wikipedia in bright fuschia Comic Sans MS, 26 points, then he or she can, through their custom CSS subpage. If a user has indicated a preference to see their section headings numbered, then that should be honoured.
The point with his suggestion is, that prepending numbers in front of, e.g. a series of month names, or year numbers, or even complete dates, yiels bewildering and/or unreadable headings. There needs to be a way to remedy the dissatisfarory situation that you can only resort to go to you peferences, change the global setting there, return to the page, have it redisplayed, and, once you're done, return to your preferences, switch the setting back on, and likely go back once more to the again uggly page, to continue where you left off. Shorter said, at times editors know of specific display needs for their pages which cannot be met be local CSS alone.
Created attachment 3288 [details] This is actually a patch Did I really post the whole of Parser.php on v2? This one should actually be a patch.
*** Bug 3254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There is a MediaWiki extension available now at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MagicNoNumberedHeadings supplying __NONUMBEREDHEADINGS__ doing what is aked for in this bug.
