https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28262
Summary: Unable to return from links within the Contents box at
the top of Wikipedia articles, as well as from in-line
footnotes, by clicking the "Back" button.
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Windows XP
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
In the Contents box at the top of a Wikipedia article--broken down into various
headings and sub-headings--I have been noticing recently (within last few
months) an increasingly recurring problem. Normally, when clicking on one of
these headings (for instance: 2.1 Background), you are automatically brought
down to that specific section within the page; now, for as long as I have been
using Wikipedia, after having arrived at this lower section, it was always
possible to click on the "Back" button at the top of the browser window and
this would send you right back to the Contents box at top of the article from
which you had initially clicked. However, it seems more and more I have been
navigating articles in which this helpful feature is disabled/glitching/never
installed in the first place. The "Back" button is not available, i.e. gray and
non-clickable. It's not every article, or even every linked-heading within one
of the malfunctioning articles, nor do I come across it in the majority of
articles I browse.
Sometimes, the issue lies in the in-line citation footnote (the super-script
number which brings you down to the corresponding Reference section); once
clicking the super-script footnote and having arrived at the Reference section,
I find myself no longer able to return to the specific place within the article
from which I had originally clicked on the footnote.
The most recent manifestation of this problem which I have come across is on
the "George MacDonald" article (the fantasy writer). In this instance, the
linked headings in the Contents box function properly, while the in-line
footnotes are at issue. I find this to be the case in the very first footnote
(#1), which will take you down to the Reference section but will not allow you
back through hitting the "Back" button. However, the second footnote works
just fine...
This isn't a huge problem, obviously, and one can live without it; however,
especially on very long articles, I find this a very convenient feature...just
one more nicely designed Wiki-feature. Also, I am no programmer or engineer,
so perhaps the issue is somehow on my end; or perhaps a slip-up of the author
who created the page in the first place. If the latter, should I therefore be
bringing this up on the individual article's Discussion page? If the former,
I'd be happy for any advice or criticism.
I hope I have posted this in the correct place. I scoured Wikipedia's
help-sections (Wikipedia:Questions; Help Desk; Village Pump) previous to this
and here seemed to be the only applicable forum for this comment.
Well, thank you for your patience. Obviously this is not a pressing glitch...I
merely thought I'd bring it to someone's attentions, if no one else already
had.
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