Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Section link in summary is sometimes incorrect unhelpful

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Previous attempts

They tried this before, but IMHO the mistake was to still treat the section link as part of the summary instead of switching all section link generation to server-side/asynchronous (which admittedly would be a big change). Nardog (talk) 12:48, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

I think automatic edit summaries can and probably should be used more extensively, e.g. in addition to the normal ones displayable on demand with a click. How could it detect if a section header was added instead of just an existing one changed? Prototyperspective (talk) 13:12, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't have to. This wish is solely concerned about the section link and not about edit summaries (in fact it advocates for divorcing the former from the latter). Accurately showing the name of the modified section is possible by looking at the first and last modified lines, the preceding unmodified lines, and the parsed result. Nardog (talk) 22:40, 3 November 2024 (UTC)