How can I configure MediaWiki to display numbers in titles?

Question

We would like to display numbers in the titles in our MediaWiki wiki.

Specifically: in the table of contents numbers are shown like this:

 1 Title
   1.1 Subtitle
 2 Another title

However, on the page the titles (that map to the table of contents) appear like this:

 Title
  text
 Subtitle
  text
 Another title
  text

That is, no numbers are shown.

How can we show numbers in the page contents?

There are three possible ways that this could be answered (that I can think of). In our order of preference, they are:

Please edit your question to give it consistency. You bounce back and forth between title and page. Which is it? — John Gardeniers, Mar 18 '11 at 11:45
@John - I don't know what you mean. The table of contents is first - which shows the title numbers. Then there are titles below (rest of the page) that don't show title numbers, just text. — Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE, Mar 18 '11 at 11:52
Ok, you're talking about title entries in the table of contents but when I read the question and its title it looks like you're talking about page titles, not the table of contents. — John Gardeniers, Mar 18 '11 at 11:55
@John - OK, sorry for the confusion and thanks for the clarification. I will update the question. — Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE, Mar 18 '11 at 12:00

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '11 at 12:49

3

If you want to add it by default for all users add a line:

$wgDefaultUserOptions['numberheadings'] = 1;

to your LocalSettings.php. See here for reference.

answered Mar 18 '11 at 12:49

uesp

excellent, thanks! I can't accept this because it wasn't my *first* preference (that was setting per user) but I can upvote! If someone adds setting per page we'll have the set! =:-) – Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE Mar 18 '11 at 13:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '11 at 12:00

2

This is Murphy's Law. Despite Googling for the answer I could not find it until after I had posted the question.

It is: user PREFERENCES -> MISC -> check Auto-numbering of heading.

answered Mar 18 '11 at 12:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 20 '12 at 03:42

0

My Preferences --> Appearance --> Auto-number headings

edited Dec 20 '12 at 03:42

HopelessN00b

answered Dec 20 '12 at 03:19

Konstantin Spirin

3 Answers3