Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 1 (section)

== How to edit TOC in article w/no edit link for same? ==

I would like to edit an article by adding a section which would mean editing the TOC for same as well to add/change an entry in same but there is no edit link next to the TOC and the TOC is not included in the intro section or the one below.  How can this be done?
:The TOC is automatically generated from the section headings.  To change it, change the section headings (i.e. <nowiki>==Section Title==</nowiki>). [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 05:32, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)
:Also, any new section headings you add will be automatically added to the TOC. [[User:Isomorphic|Isomorphic]] 05:32, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
::However, you need a certain number of section headings (four maybe?) until the TOC creates itself. That might be why you're not getting one. [[User:Alex S|&#913;&#955;&#949;&#958;]] [[User talk:Alex S|&#931; ]] 13:32, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:: I thought it was three... [[User:Ludraman|L<small>UDRAMAN</small>]] | [[User talk:Ludraman|T]] 21:01, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:::In the [[m:MediaWiki roadmap|new version]] of [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]], you will be able to use <nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki> to include a TOC on pages with less than 4 headings. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 17:45, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

:::Why not just add the TOC automatically whenever there is more than a screenful or two of text between the beginning of the page and the last heading? --[[User:Voodoo|Voodoo]] 00:28, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

::::Probably because "a screenful or two" is different for different people on different computers, systems, settings, screen widths... [[User:Moink|moink]] 00:29, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

::::That's why I made the amount of text approximate. There is no benefit to using number of headings as a metric, it is just as dependant on those variable factors you mentioned. Also, you can have many headings in a message short enough to fit on a single screen, and in fact that is exactly what the TOC displays. The TOC is there so that you can jump to a heading without scrolling, and it's the amount of text between the beginning of the page and and the last heading that makes scrolling to that heading necessary, not the number of headings.  --[[User:Voodoo|Voodoo]] 02:17, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

:::::Good grief.  The TOC, as it stands, is intuitive and works wonderfully well. It's one of my favourite things. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod]] 01:17, May 8, 2004 (UTC)