Help talk:Section

mediawiki - Sections HTML code convertion problem

Greetings ... im havving a REALLY annoying problem. I have my wiki in a local server and in an server somewhere else.

The CSS are exacly the same BUT, on my local wiki the sections text are in blue (correct) and in the outside server are in black (wrong). even if i modify the main.css in the outside server in wont change to blue. if i apply any other stype, line background color, or underline, etc .. it will apply, but the color it refuses to change. i even tryied to use "!importante" and nothing (locally the the !import works just fine).

I looked into the generated page code to try to figure it out and this is that i found:

In my local server, the section generated code looks like this

<h1>
	<span class="mw-headline" id="Overview"> Overview </span>
</h1>

In the other end ... on my external server the section generated code looks like this

<h1>
	<span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">
		<a style="text-decoration:none;color:black" name="Overview"> Overview </a>
	</span>
</h1>

So.. i am almost sure that the problem is the style defined in the anchor. the question is .. why is that there??? i also found something interesting that may be a clue (for someone but not for me)

I found 2 wikis refering to "Help:Section"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section

in this one (the one we are right now), they say that section work like in my local wiki

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section

in this one it says that it works like on my external server

Is this any clue to anyone?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

- Miguel (17-02-2011 14:34)

Collapsible table of contents

There are several articles with extremely long tables of contents, including this one. Is it possible to make the table of contents collapsible (so that it will be less difficult to navigate?) Jarble (talk) 05:04, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

It's already collapsible, that's what the "[hide]" link at the top does. If you want to limit the depth of subheadings that are shown, the |limit= parameter of {{TOC right}} does that - it's covered by H:LIMITTOC. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:39, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 July 2016

for the birthdate of Stafford Elliot aka Fred Locks it is June 7, 1950.

2601:19B:8103:7F30:E925:2212:2791:DDC1 (talk) 04:27, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Help:Section. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:54, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 March 2017

__NOEDITSECTION__ 83.169.216.7 (talk) 17:25, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:10, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

End of section

No mention about how can one mark the end of the (e.g. last) section. [1] —Mykhal (talk) 10:19, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

It might be the case that only the last section needs the marker. —Mykhal (talk) 10:23, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

@Mykhal: We don't mark ends of sections. A "section" - so far as MediaWiki is concerned - runs from a level 2 heading to the next level 2 heading, or to the end of the page, whichever comes first. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:05, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Well, I see that we don't yet mark it, as you can see. However, some bottom items are often semantically clearly not part of the last section, and are standalone. —Mykhal (talk) 15:08, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Some years ago - can't remember when or where - there was a discussion about whether there should be some sort of division between the five standard appendices, each of which has a level 2 heading (Works or publications; "See also" section; Notes and references; Further reading; External links) and the standard footers or "bottom matter" (succession boxes, etc.) none of which have a heading. The consensus reached was that there should not be any such division. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:05, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2017

Hello, can you please remove the "promotes" template at the top of the Wikipedia page for "Inovalon." If unable to do so, can you please tell me specifically what needs to be changed in the entry to have the box removed. Thank you. Irajkantor (talk) 13:38, 22 May 2017 (UTC)