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Support for section edit using section name in Special:EditPage
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Feature summary: The special page EditPage should have support for jumping to and editing a single section in a page. For example, on English Wikipedia, [[Special:EditPage/Human#History]] should direct the user to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human&action=edit&section=3 (as of the creation of this ticket).

The immediate use case for me is to speedy up opening large pages in Wiktionary, whose section headers are very systematic, as such, section numbers fall out of sync way faster than section names. In an entry, each language is given a level-2 heading with its name. So if one knows an entry has a given language, they should be able to easily and directly edit it, without having to load the entire page (which can take a little while for larger pages). Similar arguments could be made for Wikivoyage.

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Escargot_rouge renamed this task from Support for sections in Special:EditPage to Support for section edit using section name in Special:EditPage.Mon, May 25, 10:42 AM

For example, on English Wikipedia, [[Special:EditPage/Human#History]] should direct the user to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human&action=edit&section=3

No conment on the idea in general, but i dont think that syntax (using #) is viable.

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The immediate use case for me is to speedy up opening large pages in Wiktionary, whose section headers are very systematic, as such, section numbers fall out of sync way faster than section names. In an entry, each language is given a level-2 heading with its name. So if one knows an entry has a given language, they should be able to easily and directly edit it, without having to load the entire page (which can take a little while for larger pages). Similar arguments could be made for Wikivoyage.

The main way to fix this is to fix Wikionary's garbage data structure.