Off topic, but is there a linking service where the reader can be directed to an arbitrary location within the page? In this case we could just click on the link and it'll directly take us to that particular comment?
I'm just surprised that there's still no way for me to link someone to a particular paragraph within a Wikipedia article in the year 2014.
You can link directly to the an element in a page if it has an id attribute: http://example.com/index.html#foobar will jump to the foobar element in index.html-- and foobar can be anything, a paragraph, a div, an image, etc.
Just append your URL with the selector for a DOM Element with a unique ID. In this case, the 'Timeline' div has a unique ID of 'Timeline', so I've simply appended that to the URL.
I did that for some reason I don't remember many years ago, but it's quite fragile.
OTOH if you do it based on text content it somewhat resists better to htm changes but not to content changes.
It's tricky.
Off topic, but is there a linking service where the reader can be directed to an arbitrary location within the page? In this case we could just click on the link and it'll directly take us to that particular comment?
I'm just surprised that there's still no way for me to link someone to a particular paragraph within a Wikipedia article in the year 2014.