(Here is a wishlist item for year 2015, so don't hit WONTFIX so fast,
thank you.)
Offline (or perhaps various cached states) users of MediaWiki often
queue links like ...&action=edit§ion=6 on their PDAs etc. devices
with the intention to edit when they later attach to the network,
which might even be several days later.
The problem is links like &action=edit§ion=6 might now refer to
the wrong section, as in the meantime, the sections might now have
been somewhat changed by other editors activity.
A much more successful scheme would be
&action=edit§ion=The_Nurdsburg_Tales,
corresponding to the anchor #The_Nurdsburg_Tales.
Just use the same string that you would when safely encoding this
anchor for use in URLs.
One might say "but what about subsections with the same name? That's
why we use section numbering. Case closed."
However, MediaWiki already deals with this case by appending _1, _2,
... so no problem.
Indeed, this is identical to the wisdom and stability of Pie#Apple vs.
Pie#12345 where 12345 is a byte offset, or Pie#11 where 11 is the 11th
section.
I only found some slightly related bugs, e.g., bug #9239, but no exact
duplicates.
Version: 1.14.x
Severity: enhancement