Help:Section
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- See mw:Help:Formatting for syntax examples for section headers.
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[edit] Linking to a section
Each section header has an anchor element to which links can point. These anchors are automatically used by the MediaWiki software when generating a Table of Contents for the page. These can also be linked to with normal links. See mw:Help:Links for examples.
[edit] Compact TOC
Where you have a large number of very short headings (such as letters of the alphabet) you can get a very long table of contents. An alternative is a compact table of contents such as created by {{compactTOC}}.
[edit] Horizontal dividing lines
A horizontal dividing line as a division demarcation is not taken into account in the section numbering and TOC. Therefore it should not be used for dividing a page in sets of sections.
[edit] Sections vs. separate pages vs. transclusion
- Advantages of separate pages
- What links here feature
- Automatic redirect on renaming
- Redirect to a section is not possible
- Loading a small page is faster than loading a large page
- Advantages of one large page with sections
- Loading one large page is faster and more convenient than loading several small ones
- Searching with in one large page (the page itself or the wikitext) with a local search function is faster and in some respects better than searching several pages (for which one has to search the whole project); also the TOC provides for convenient navigation.
- Advantages of transcluded sections
- Edit histories are kept separate.
- Content can be shared between pages.
See composite pages for more on this.
