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Hi all,

I am starting some new pages on my own tiny MediaWiki for the first time in a couple of years. In the past, I always got the [edit] hotlink to the right of any section header. I still see them now on pages on my own wiki that I made in the past (some but not all), and I see them when signed into Wikipedia.

Yet I am not getting them on a new page I am making, even after having made a number of h2 and h3 sections.

It's annoying. I heavily rewrite as I go, so I want to focus on where I am, now. Not having individual-section edits means I have to scroll down both through the edit window and the preview, every single time I submit changes or preview.

There must be some very easy explanation, but I don't know why this is happening. I can't seem to find a relevant Setting that affects this.

Thanks if you can help!

Info on my site:

Product	Version
MediaWiki	1.27.1
PHP	5.6.40 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL	5.6.40-84.0-log
ICU	4.8.1.1

I'd recommend upgrading MediaWiki, 1.27 was released 4 years ago and support for it was dropped about a year ago.

Thank you Majavah. Could you or anyone else recommend a service or person I could pay to advise me on my wiki? It's a bit too much work for me.

Manual:Upgrading; Professional development and consulting

normally the only reason section links wouldnt show up is if __NOEDITSECTIONLINKS__ was present or you did not have edit access to the page. If your wiki is public, linking to it might allow us to better figure out what happened