I was looking into this and I rememebered that there's a nodelet called Sections. I think the optimal solution for implementing this then might be to default to the Sections nodelet being on and at the top of the nodelet stack, and removing the Sections list at the top of the page. IMHO this would have a few other advantages. The sections list is not right-justified to the width of Nodelets and this can often be ugly. It would also provide more space for, and avoid wrapping of node titles as well the attribution and alternate mode view links.

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I'm not belgian but I play one on TV.