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Position of section editing links is confusing
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Author: andrew.conkling

Description:
When browsing a wiki page, it is often unclear which section an edit link will
edit. The edit link seems to be a bit high. For example, edit links for

third-level headings===, which don't have a horizontal line underneath them,

could easily be mistaken for editing the section preceding them.

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559 mentions changing the position
of the edit link to the bottom of the section. I don't necessarily like that
idea, but I will agree that for a new user (which I was, once) it can be
confusing until you get used to it.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baseline

Details

Reference
bz4518

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Section edit link are always on the same line as the heading. I'm
not sure how much clearer it could get?

zigger wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)
Here's some improvement ideas:

  1. display the edit link on the same baseline as the section heading (like

Andrew said)

  1. use title=section-heading in the hyperlink instead of title=page-title

Also, there are more serious edit-link display bugs (bug 1629, bug 2703)

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4525 ***