https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48429

--- Comment #3 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
There must be a recognition that editing large articles is burdensome and that
section editing has (had) _enormous_ value.

Even with JavaScript disabled, the parser continues to take a significant
amount of time to parse a large article. And while modern browsers on modern
hardware don't have as many issues, rendering large articles can also be
taxing.

VisualEditor adds to this burden by piling on a lot of JavaScript. The idea
that wanting to edit only a section of [[GE]] or [[Iraq War]] stems from
wanting to skip past confusing wikitext or avoid edit conflicts misses the
point, I think. Though I realize that VisualEditor uproots many principles of
the current editing workflow/paradigm.

Krinkle briefly mentioned an idea where section edit links might load the full
VisualEditor form and then jump down to the specific section. This might be an
approach to consider.

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