Mediawiki templates that know what section (or subsection) they're in?

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A Mediawiki template can use Magic Words to identify what page it's being transcluded into: {{PAGENAME}} — and various other details of its namespace. What I can't find out is if there's a Magic Word or some other technique to identify what section (or subsection) of the page* it's being transcluded into.

*i.e. what the headings and subheadings (used to compile the page's table of contents) closest above it are.

I am afraid, there is no way to do that, as not only the whole page can be parsed but also any of its sections separately. — Alexander Mashin, Mar 30 '21 at 03:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '21 at 21:44

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Templates need to be context-independent. Currently there are ways to work around that, so you could probably create an extension doing this, but it wouldn't survive the ongoing parser rewrite.

answered Mar 30 '21 at 21:44

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Mediawiki templates that know what section (or subsection) they're in?

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