Author: jd

Description:
Hi! This is a feature request about a pagination behaviour within MediaWiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagination

There is a recurring debate about whether one should break long articles into pieces (that is, several *articles*) or not. Sometimes, one want to maintain a single article because the subject is already highly specialised (#1), or because it is about a very large subject with many specialized articles and serves as the unified starting point (#2). some other cases may exist as well (#?). Whatever are the reasons, it may be cool to have a way to split an article into pieces rather than into several articles (#1, #?).

I'm thinking about something like this :

<article text.... soooo long... but, look!>
'''1''' | 2 | 3 | next >

The pages behind 1, 2 and 3 wouldn't be *real* articles, i.e. independently reachable within the article namespace. They would be virtual part of the whole and only article, created by MediaWiki to ease reading. For a live example, see how http://www.iht.com software handles articles, or any equivalent. I guess MediaWiki would break articles on the basis of the h* tags (== h2 == titles I guess), or between two paragraphs if no title is provided within the zone where the text begins to drag on.

I have no opinion about the ways this could be achieved, and no opinion wether this should be enabled by default or provided as a command/magic_word/the_like. I guess it would be cool, if this is a feature you think is interesting, to have a way to fix the critical length defining what a "long aricle" is and a way to force the pagebreak.

What do you think of this?

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34150