diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
index fb12acd710e..37fe9f1b1bb 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ production.
   when the email address is already confirmed. Also, consistently use
   "confirmed", rather than "authenticated", when messaging whether or not the
   user has confirmed an email address.
+* (bug 19415) action=render no longer shows section edit links. This affects
+  behavior of several other features where (bogus) section edit links will
+  disappear, such as file description pages loaded via $wgUseInstantCommons or
+  pages transcluded cross-wiki via $wgEnableScaryTranscluding.
 * (bug 56912) Show correct link color on cached result of Special:DeadendPages.
 * Classes TitleListDependency and TitleDependency have been removed, as they
   have been found unused in core and extensions for a long time.
diff --git a/includes/Article.php b/includes/Article.php
index b132ca9f9a7..28a53801e29 100644
--- a/includes/Article.php
+++ b/includes/Article.php
@@ -1480,6 +1480,7 @@ class Article implements Page {
 	 */
 	public function render() {
 		$this->getContext()->getOutput()->setArticleBodyOnly( true );
+		$this->getContext()->getOutput()->enableSectionEditLinks( false );
 		$this->view();
 	}
 
diff --git a/includes/OutputPage.php b/includes/OutputPage.php
index efcd838df3c..68958b648f3 100644
--- a/includes/OutputPage.php
+++ b/includes/OutputPage.php
@@ -257,10 +257,15 @@ class OutputPage extends ContextSource {
 	private $mTarget = null;
 
 	/**
-	 * @var bool: Whether output should contain table of contents
+	 * @var bool: Whether parser output should contain table of contents
 	 */
 	private $mEnableTOC = true;
 
+	/**
+	 * @var bool: Whether parser output should contain section edit links
+	 */
+	private $mEnableSectionEditLinks = true;
+
 	/**
 	 * Constructor for OutputPage. This should not be called directly.
 	 * Instead a new RequestContext should be created and it will implicitly create
@@ -1613,6 +1618,11 @@ class OutputPage extends ContextSource {
 	function addParserOutput( &$parserOutput ) {
 		$this->addParserOutputNoText( $parserOutput );
 		$parserOutput->setTOCEnabled( $this->mEnableTOC );
+
+		// Touch section edit links only if not previously disabled
+		if ( $parserOutput->getEditSectionTokens() ) {
+			$parserOutput->setEditSectionTokens( $this->mEnableSectionEditLinks );
+		}
 		$text = $parserOutput->getText();
 		wfRunHooks( 'OutputPageBeforeHTML', array( &$this, &$text ) );
 		$this->addHTML( $text );
@@ -3691,4 +3701,21 @@ $templates
 	public function isTOCEnabled() {
 		return $this->mEnableTOC;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Enables/disables section edit links, doesn't override __NOEDITSECTION__
+	 * @param bool $flag
+	 * @since 1.23
+	 */
+	public function enableSectionEditLinks( $flag = true ) {
+		$this->mEnableSectionEditLinks = $flag;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @return bool
+	 * @since 1.23
+	 */
+	public function sectionEditLinksEnabled() {
+		return $this->mEnableSectionEditLinks;
+	}
 }