The hovercard doesn't show the title of the target article or section.
This may be confusing in case of piped links and redirects to sections or alternate titles, as the user lack context of the landing page, which may be different to what the words in the link suggest.
See this for some examples. (BTW, it seems like redirects to section don't work, they show the start of the article anyway)
The title is bolded for regular articles and re-directs. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Khan (hover on Hindi Cinema) which redirects to Bollywood. You will see that Bollywood is bolded.
Yes, but that's a matter of style for the way the target article is written, not the software showing the actual title of the page. There are many pages that don't contain their bolded page title in their intro paragraph.
In the page I linked to above, there are various links with puzzling results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_advantage#Forms_of_card_advantage
For example if you hover on the links in that section called "library", "graveyard" or "enchantment", the resulting hovercard in all them contains this text which does nothing to explain how the link arrived to that content and thus seems broken:
Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game with detailed and, at times, complex rules. Knowledge of the game's rules is necessary to play the game.
If the hovercard properly displayed the contents of the redirect page as their title, we would know that those links are targetting "Magic: The Gathering rules#Areas_of_play", "Magic: The Gathering rules#Blocking" and "Magic: The Gathering rules#Enchantments" respectively.
The old hovercard gadget (Navigation popups) does this, and it's much easier to orientate oneself with it even when opening several chained hovercards (which the new widget doesn't allow, and it's incredibly useful).
Thank you for reporting this. But for 90% of the cards the title is relatively easy to gauge. Ideally we would like to carry the title on its own line but it significantly increases the height of the card, because some titles can be multiline. The text size is the navigation popups gadget is quite small and doesn't meet W3CG AAA Accessibility standards for a temporal element.
Why is the height of the card a problem even with large text? On large screens there is plenty of room, in small screens like phones you will need to scroll down anyway. I'd say avoiding problems of disorientation caused by missing context is more important than having to scroll down slightly.
If the title is more than, say, 8 words, it could be trimmed and shown on mouse hover, or with a "show full title" small button.
