Thread:Nanaki/@comment-25496503-20150122034148/@comment-1117661-20150122044208

I know what the switch does :) The lack of edit link in headers was what I was referring to. Editing is the driving force of a wiki. Going out of the way to make editing harder means less editors, less editors means lack/lower quality of content. And it's the time when wiki needs editors the most.

is useful for example when a template inserts a heading as the Edit link will send user to edit the template rather than a page they're looking at. Disabling it "just 'cause" is... counterproductive. On top of that there are better ways to approach this. Hiding it with css (via Mediawiki:Common.css - sysop needed) will enable users to enable it for themselves. Or the other way around, if you personally don't like the links just add this to your personal common.css. It'll get rid of all of them.