Topic on Talk:Page Previews/Flow

Currently the content of the hover card shows the heading of the article pointed to by the link. However sometimes links point to a sub-heading for information referenced within larger articles, e.g. a definition of a specific term in a domain.

It would be great if the hover card was aware of this.

e.g. "blah blah [Gather(vector addressing)|gather] blah blah"

"gather" points to #gather in the article [[Gather-scatter (vector addressing)]].. you want to see a definition of 'gather', not the broader domain.

it would also be awesome with redirects to definitions in glossary pages

Yes! This is captured by this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65792. I don't see it as a blocker for rolling the feature out to anons, but think its an obvious win.

I have more complex suggestions aswell but they probably rock the boat too much.. imagine if wikipedia supported some sort of 'micro articles' for definitions (which are automatically assembled into bigger pages, almost automatic glossary/list-of. i prefer the idea of pages based on precise definitions but these seem to run into tension with 'notability guidelines' and avoiding repetition, so we end up with definitions embedded in complex ways. Scratching an itch, i've been going through graphics topics to throw as many definitions of terms as possible into a glossary page

There's another more recent topic discussing the issue at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tjlsihy1b6n6nwxd, called "Hovercards don't show the section of a page that the link specifies".