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Why in the world would you disallow links in headings? This is commonly done on a good many wikis, and there are many good reasons to do it, such as when there is already a good article on a topic and you just want to summarize the article.
Why in the world would you disallow links in headings? This is commonly done on a good many wikis, and there are many good reasons to do it, such as when there is already a good article on a topic and you just want to summarize the article. A link in such a heading is a succinct way to say "this is not the authoritative statement on this topic, if you want that, click on this here link in the header; if you keep reading beyond this point, be aware it's just a summary". You really want to put three-liners in italics like that on all those paragraphs?
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It's also absurd to disallow links in [[edit summary]]/change note where they are essential, e.g. to link to a policy being enforced or another page being referred or a user involved
It's also absurd to disallow links in [[edit summary]]/change note where they are essential, e.g. to link to a policy being enforced or another page being referred or a user involved.
All that said, the worst problem with mediawiki format is solved by this proposal which is the need to balance the = signs. Supporting it in this backward compatible way is probably the best solution that could be achieved. Mediawiki has awesome data weight and the less one departs from it the better, usually.
As for level one headings, they are disallowed and discouraged for many good reasons, one of which (not mentioned above) is that using them prevents re-use of page content as part of some other document with a different title or level one heading. It's quite dodgy and dangerous to indent everything an extra level when you want to grab a whole page and include it in another document, so having page sections always start at the highest sub-heading (not the main heading or title) is wise. This may be one of the reasons for Wikipedia's success, as there are so many teenagers cribbing from it for essays - which of course have different titles than the articles, but which can contain all the text nabbed from those. So disallowing level 1 is probably not out of the question but using it shouldn't be encouraged either. It may be best to say flatly that this is the "alternate title" or "subtitle" or "extended page name" rather than the "main heading", so it is clear that it may interact with the title of the page in very specific ways.
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